Lindsey Showalter

Section Leader Application 2018

Mellophone

60-Minute Sectional Lesson Plan

Objectives

• Members will use the warm up time to prepare and focus on the rehearsal goals.

• Members will demonstrate the correct rhythms in “And So It Goes” measures 17-25.

• Members will demonstrate musical phrasing considering dynamics in measures 26-33.

• Members will memorize “And So It Goes.”

Procedures

• Arrival

• Section leaders will encourage members to unpack as soon as they arrive.

• It will be the expectation that rehearsals start promptly at 6 o’clock. Anyone not in the arc

ready to play will be considered tardy.

• Section leaders will mingle with members as they arrive.

• Ask individuals how their day has been, how their classes are going. etc.

• Warmups

• Section leaders will give a brief overview of the goals and plan for the rehearsal.

• Section leaders will begin with dynamic stretching.

• Members will be given the opportunity to lead a stretch.

 • Section leaders will lead a warmup that combines visual and musical techniques.

• Section leaders will engage the section in a breathing warm up.

• Power breathing, long term breathing

• Wind patterns with dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythms and sixteenth-dotted eighth note

rhythms

• Section leaders will engage the section in a buzzing warm up.

• Breathe and buzz any note (can be used with any of the above breathing exercises).

• Buzz air patterns (rhythms found in m. 20, for example) on one pitch, then a scale.

• Section leaders will engage the section in a playing warmup.

• Play a concert A flat scale (whole notes, in round).

• Experiment with dynamic changes.

• Play a concert A flat scale alternating the rhythms of dotted eighth note-sixteenth note and

sixteenth note-dotted eighth note.

• Section leader will tune an individual and everyone else will practice tuning to that person.

Above warmups are also intended to help the members begin to listen to each other for

tuning.

• Music Rehearsal

• Section will play measures 17-25 of “And So It Goes.”

• Section will sing m. 17-25.

• Section will buzz m. 17-25.

• Section will play m. 17-25 again.

 • Special attention given to the rhythm and difference between the dotted eighth-sixteenth

and sixteenth-dotted eighth note rhythms

• Section will play measures 26-33 of “And So It Goes.”

• Section will practice the dynamic structure of those bars by playing a concert A flat scale

(one note per bar, follow the dynamics given).

• Section will play m. 26-33 with the given notes.

• Special attention given to 30-32 to make sure that the phrases stays connected.

• Members may plan with each other where to breathe so everyone doesn’t breathe at the

same spot.

• Additional problems will be addressed as they arise.

• Music Memorization

• Section leaders will give the members the opportunity to choose whether they want to

memorize from the beginning of the piece to the end or vice versa.

• Depending on interest, the section will split into three groups- one learning from beginning

to end, one working backwards from the end, and the third working independently.

• If the group unanimously chooses one, we will stay together as a group.

• The group learning from the beginning will start at measure 17 and play to 26.

• Play 2-3 times with music, 2-3 times without.

• Continue this process with each section of the piece until memorized.

• The group learning from the end will start at measure 34 and play to the end.

• Play 2-3 times with music, 2-3 times without.

• Continue this process with each section of the piece until memorized.
• The third group will be given time on their own to practice if they prefer another way of

memorization.

• Section leaders will emphasize that each group marks time while practicing.

• If time allows, groups will come back together to play through the piece at then end.