Summer Lessons and "The Rank System"

Hello everyone,

It has been a little while since last I blogged. :-) Summer lessons are over halfway over and I feel like we have just begun. I have been extremely pleased with the students that I have been working with so far this summer. We have had a number of people complete lesson books and have gotten an excellent start to "The Rank System."

For those of you who are not aware of the rank system, this is designed to make learning scales and advanced techniques more interesting. "The Rank System" is a new incentive program that will give students various ranks for accomplishing certain tasks on their instruments. Later this summer you will find more information on the rank system on the band webpage. Most importantly though, all students achieving the rank of Captain by the end of next school year will get to have a pizza party. That should be pretty fun. :-)

Summer band has also been going pretty well. I think that we will be in good shape for our performance. We are definitely performing "Prehistoric Suite," "Chesapeake March," and "Rockin' Drummers." We will try out "Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious" next week in rehearsal. I can't wait to see how well that one works out.

So I would like to try to make my blog slightly more interactive....meaning I want you, the reader, involved. :-) So....I am going to try asking a question.... For those of you who have gone through band at Lakeview, and those of you still in band at Lakeview...What was your favorite piece of band music that you played while at Lakeview? Feel free to post your answers in the comments section below. I hope to learn from the discussion this should provide. :-)