Download Band 8 - I Know How To

Grade 8 Instrumental Music
I know how to:
A. Musicianship
o Enter a music space and find a chair and stand.
o Conduct myself in a music space so that everyone is respected and safe.
o Maintain the order of a music space by putting my own instrument and
music in the proper location for storage.
o Figure out where I should sit in a music group.
o Organize my practice to maximize my progress.
o Focus my attention in music rehearsals to improve my performance.
o Find recordings of specialists on my instrument and listen to them.
B. Fundamentals
o Assemble my instrument.
o Maintain my instrument through cleaning, oiling or disinfecting.
o Sit to produce a good sound.
o Set my stand so I can see both my music and the conductor.
o Hold my instrument correctly to produce a good sound.
o Set my embouchure to produce a good sound on my instrument.
o Inhale and exhale deeply and without tension to create a good sound.
o Inhale in rhythm with the group.
o Hold a note steady with my air stream.
o Change notes using only my airstream (brass and flutes only).
o Start notes clearly using both my air and my tongue. (Tu/Du)
o Change notes using my fingers or slide positions.
o Coordinate the motion of my tongue and fingers.
o Release notes without changing the shape of a sound.
o Watch and respond to my conductor.
o Listen and respond to the musicians around me.
o Grip my sticks and mallets (percussion only)
o Move my instrument to the correct playing height (percussion)
o Move between instruments quickly and quietly (percussion)
o Strike the instrument in a variety of ways to get a variety of sounds.
(percussion)
o Find the best sound on all drum heads. (percussion)
C. Aural Skills
o Listen and adjust my instrument to blend my sound with others.
o Match a tuning note.
o Tell the difference between a full supported sound and an unsupported
sound.
o Adjust my instrument to tune it.
o Tell the difference between major and minor triads.
o Play my note in a triad so that it is in tune with the other notes.
o Tune a set of timpani to a perfect 4th or 5th interval - percussion
o Explain pyramid balance and how it applies to wind bands.
D. Notation Skills
o Read rhythm notation using quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth
note pairs, dotted quarter/eighth patterns, rests, dotted half notes,
sixteenth notes, dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythms, syncopated rhythms
eighth-sixteenth patterns and triplets.
o Read rhythm notation using compound rhythms.
o Recognize and perform in the time signatures of 4/4, 3/4 and 2/2.
o Figure out transitions in multi-meter music.
o Count rhythms using both ta’s and titi’s and numbers.
o Count out a multi-measure rest accurately.
o Recognize and perform a repeat.
o Recognize and perform a first and second ending.
o Find the end of a piece of music.
o Follow the musical symbols to perform music using DS or DC al Coda.
o Find the Coda and when to play it.
o Recognize the clef for my instrument.
o Say the name of my clef and spell it correctly.
o Read all of the notes in my target range when written on a music staff.
o Figure out new notes by counting up or down from notes I know.
o Organize the seven notes of the musical alphabet in order.
o What to do when there are two notes written in the same place on a staff.
o Correctly transcribe music so it can be read by any musician.
o Notate my own music to share with others.
o Read a key signature and figure out which notes are changed.
o Recite the order of flats and sharps.
o Play the flat and sharp notes that apply to my instrument.
o Figure out what a natural does and perform it correctly in music.
o Perform major scales using the correct pattern of whole and half steps.
o Figure out where the half steps are in a major scale.
o Write a major scale for my instrument.
o Write a minor scale for my instrument.
o Tell where the half steps are in a minor scale.
E. Performance Skills - Technique
o Play the major scales of concert B
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octave, accurately.
o Play the harmonic minor scales of Concert g, Concert c and Concert f with
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Interpret a fingering chart.
Use my fingering chart to learn new notes or to check my notes.
Perform single stroke patterns accurately. (RL, LR,) - percussion
Perform double stroke patterns accurately. (RRLL, LLRR, RLRR, LRLL)percussion
Read and perform flams and paradiddles accurately. - percussion
Perform multiple bounce rolls accurately. – percussion
Properly start and release sound on a variety of instruments. - percussion
Adjust a drum head to get a desired sound - percussion
Replace a drum head and rebalance it. - percussion
Perform two different rolls on a tambourine. - percussion
Play a gong safely and correctly. - percussion
F. Performance Skills – Dynamics and Expression
o Perform six dynamic levels as a range.
o Perform a crescendo.
o Perform a diminuendo (decrescendo).
o Perform a sforzando.
o Dampen a percussion instrument. - percussion
o Play a variety of dynamics on a percussion instrument.
o Perform a fortepiano.
o Perform a fermata.
o Perform a ritardando or an allargando.
o Perform alternating dynamics within the band.
o Listen and alter my dynamic to keep the melody, counter-melody and
accompaniment correctly balanced.
o Listen and adjust my volume to blend with the musicians around me.
o Figure out the tempo by looking at the Italian words at the start of the
music.
o Understand common Italian words for style and tempo; maestoso, tutti,
allegro, andante, moderato, adagio, presto, caesura, poco a poco, tacet,
animato, agitato, cantabile, expressivo, sostenuto, meno, molto, senza,
subito, piu.
G. Performance Skills - Articulation
o Tongue and slur notes as written in my music.
o Tell the difference in the sound of staccato, legato and accented notes.
o Create different sound shapes with my articulation.
o Perform common articulation patterns like all slurred, slur two-tongue two,
tongue two-slur two, tongue-slur two-tongue and slurred triplets.
o Demonstrate tenuto and marcato articulations.
H. Performance Skills - Form
o Identify what is the same and what is different in music.
o Play phrases like musical sentences.
o Create intensity and release in phrases.
o Follow a conductor when the music has a flexible tempo.
o Make no two notes the same weight or intensity.
o Understand the big picture of a composition and how all the parts work
together.
o Recognize and understand cadences as resting points.
o Organize my breathing to play the music in the style.
I. General Musical Proficiency
o Play back simple 8 – 10 note rhythm and melody patterns.
o Play a rhythm accurately when there is another rhythm playing beside me.
o Perform rhythms accurately at first sight. (sight reading)
o Perform simple melodies accurately at first sight.
o Figure out a rhythmic pattern or a melodic pattern.
o Practice technically demanding passages.