I need to have something in hand to give to my students by Monday, September 10. I know this will be challenging, but here are my project parts for this week.

Website

• Add ‘Star Wars Theme’ entry to the site (Songs you need and add link in AS Trombone) (complete)
• Edit the headers of the Scorch html pages (Can’t see the score?…get scorch…) (complete)
• Add a “Download Scorch” text to Songs page on ASTrombone & SongsYouNeed (complete)
• Move the orchestra music to it’s on page on ASTrombone (complete)
• Create a “shopping” page on ASTrombone. Big pictures of the stuff to buy with links to the individual entries in WP (Supplies) (complete)
• Update/Clean up outdated links on Supplies page (complete)
• Order a “Got Trombone” t-shirt (complete)
• Call R. re: Which songs is ASP playing? (complete)
• Create rough drafts of ASP songs for this years concert on AStrombone (complete)

Logo

• Email GotLogos with the following:
  • Logo should retain the placement of letters (GBD… needs to be circular with G starting in basically the same place as I have it
  • Their should be some type of face, but basically make it look good… not lame like the one I have
  • prep the drawing to send to GotLogos.com (clean up existing so that it’s most like what I’m looking for…)
  • Attach current logo that I have
  • If they’re able to do the logo, order a low res copy

Intro

• Write out a visual ‘Definition of an interval’
  • The definition of an interval (complete)
  • Why intervals matter

GBD…

• Write an intro to the GBD… section (complete)

R-Grams

• Finish the “What the symbols mean” section (p. 44)
• Write the “Rhyth-a-Gram wrap up” (p.45)

Playing

• Write a “Mapping the Horn: The HOP” section (I have what I think could be the first part of this section. It’s going to need more working through to call it complete).
• Write the “Definition of a Fermata” section (complete)
  • Definition
  • Don’t move to the next note until you’re ready
  • Wrap up
• ‘First Notes’ Section: Complete the following:
  • Introduction section that includes: Explain How Positions of the Horn are relative / Explain why we start in Partial 2 /
    
• Rework the Songs section to include R-grams of the dots/8ths below each song… Develop a template for this. (complete)
• Create r-grams for the difficult rhythms in Hot/Mary/Claire (complete)
• Create r-grams of dots/8ths for rest of the songs in this section (complete – It may need tweaking once it gets into the real world, but I think I have what I need for now…)

Put it Together

• Create the following exercise:
  • Choose a note you know
  • Say the rhythm before playing (ta’s/t’s)
  • Play that note on the following rhythms: (The rhythms will be variations of the foundation rhythms)

–Update:  9/2/07–

I didn’t get every one of my project parts done this week, but I slashed through a heck of a lot of them.  I’m going to  be putting the finishing touches on this coming week.  I will definitely have something to give to my students this year.  If not the first week they start back, then definitely the 2nd week of lessons.