Band Targets, 2nd year Middle School 2016-2017

1. Intonation and Tone: I can...

a. demonstrate the ability to produce a characteristic tone using proper breath, posture,
embouchure, and hand position.
b. demonstrate the ability to match pitch with my voice and instrument.
c. demonstrate the ability to tune my instrument and correct intonation.
2. Skill Goals: I can...
a. demonstrate the ability to play my instrument with a steady beat through foot tapping
and playing with a metronome.
b.

demonstrate the ability to play 3 of the 5 concert scales (Bb, Eb, Ab, F, C) at a variety
of tempos.

c.

demonstrate the ability to play a one octave chromatic scale in one octave using
quarter notes at a variety of tempos.

d.

demonstrate the ability to play 3 of 5 arpeggios (Bb, Eb, Ab, F, C).

3. Articulation: I can...
a. demonstrate the ability to play on my instrument slurs, staccato, legato and accents
and lip slurs (brass).
4. Percussion: I can...
a. demonstrate the ability to play the flams, paradiddles, flam tap, single stroke roll, and
multiple bounce rolls, drags, and syncopated rolls.
b. demonstrate the ability to play auxiliary instruments and tune timpani.
c. demonstrate the ability to play xylophone with the skill goals listed above.
5. Listening Skills: I can
a. recognize the timbre of each instrument in the band.
b. recognize major and minor tonalities.
c. demonstrate simple melodic and rhythmic dictation.

6. Literacy Skills: I can...

a.

demonstrate the ability to clap, count (subdividing), and perform rhythmic patterns
using whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, eighth-sixteenth combinations, dotted
half, dotted quarter, triplets and corresponding rests.

b. demonstrate the ability to clap, count and perform syncopated rhythms.

c. demonstrate the ability to identify and perform pitches in the appropriate clef.
d. demonstrate the ability to perform music with 1st and 2nd endings, DC al Fine, DS al
Coda.
e.

identify treble and bass clefs, sharps, flats and natural signs.

f.

demonstrate the ability to play music with 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, Common time signature
(C).

g.

identify whole and half step pattern for a major scale and the relationship between
scales and key signatures.

h. demonstrate the ability to play music with 6/8, 3/8 and cut-time time signatures.
i. demonstrate the ability to sight read grade 1 band literature.
7. Musical Expression/Creativity: I can...
a. demonstrate the ability to play 4 measure phrases.
b.

demonstrate the ability to improvise variations on simple melodies and rhythms.

c.

demonstrate the ability to play music with accents and dynamic variations using
piano through forte, crescendo and decrescendo.

8. Ensemble Playing: I can...

a. demonstrate appropriate stage, rehearsal and audience etiquette.
b. demonstrate the ability to sustain my part while playing in small and large
ensembles.
c. demonstrate the ability to play with proper blend and balance within the ensemble.
d. demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate grade level literature.
9. Humanities: I can

a.

compare and contrast music from a variety of cultures.

b. perform music from a variety of cultures.

c. compare and contrast music from various time periods.
10. Purposes: I can
a. explain three areas of music by giving examples of music that I have performed.
b. choose appropriate music for a wedding ceremony.
c. choose appropriate music for a birthday celebration.
d. perform music for a graduation ceremony.
11. Processes: I can
a.

Improvise variations on a familiar melody using three pitches.

b. create a melody with a provided structure.

c. perform a piece of music with an understanding of the music elements.
d. perform alone and with others.
e. analyze a performance and critique it using a rubric.
f. demonstrate appropriate concert etiquette on the stage and in the audience.
12. Interrelationships among the Arts: I can
a. describe commonalities between the arts and other subjects taught in the school (e.g.,
observation skills in visual arts and science, historical and cultural perspectives in the
arts and social studies, shape in visual art and mathematics, dance and a healthy
lifestyle, fractions in music notation and mathematics, composing music and
writing).