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So you've finished your concert for this year. Good for you! Now what? What does your band director do with your band until the end of the year?

We're having a Guitar Hero Tournament all this week in Band.

Start on marching. biggrin

I wish my director would let us do that...One kid brought in DDR once, but our director yelled at him and made him disconnect it, right after he finally got to work.

Anyway, our concert's tonight, but we don't have a break right away. Instead, we have to get ready to march in the Memorial Day parade (one or two in a row, I believe).

We'll probably have a party tomorrow, though, like we always do after a concert. Then, after the parade, it's basically a free-for-all, where he brings out a tv and we watch movies (like Drumline), and basically have free periods until the end of the year. It's great when yearbooks are out.

lame music tortureweek(more like 20 years) rolleyes

Well both our spring concert and our ensemble concert were on the last two weeks of school and we still had stuff to do because our band is always busy for some reason.

As a teacher, just after the spring concert, we listen/watch to the recording and discuss what was good, what was bad, and how we can improve. Then I take out the recording of the winter concert, and we compare and note how much we have improved.

As for the rest of the year, well, we practice on the rudiments, such as scales, shifting, double stops, vibrato, music theory and history, and the like. I also allow a little of small ensemble work, but I try to keep the classroom setting going to prepare for finals and arm my students with skills and knowledge they will need to further themselves as musicians.

We usually have a day off, then start to get out new music. When it's after the winter concert, our band director's nice enough to let people who want to study for finals study during band, as we're all just playing for fun.