Technically the ‘12 book projects in 12 weeks’ is over and I’d consider it a success. I never thought it would only take 12 weeks to finish absolutely everything in the book, but keeping the journal did provide me with an excellent structure for the work I needed to do each week. Even though I’m pretty sure only one person was watching (Thank you so much, M! : ) the public nature of this did help me.

So why a week 13? I have to have something to give my students in one week (2 weeks at the absolute latest…) and there’s still work to be done. Basically I see there being two release dates:

• The version I need for my returning students – due by Monday, September 10 (or Monday September 17 at the latest)
• The version I need for my new students – due by Monday, October 1st (I can incorporate anything I may have forgotten in this release)

I’ll work out the details of how I’m going to present this (spiral bound vs. loose leaf bound) in the coming week.

Here are the remaining project parts:

Songs to Input

• Go thru books and find any other public domain songs I may want to include (complete)
• Create a list (complete)
• Input to Sibelius (complete)
• Create a ‘Songs You Need’ listing for each (I input the following songs…) (complete)
  • The Camptown Races (B flat)
  • Good King Wenceslas (E flat)
  • Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (E flat)
  • The Man on the Flying Trapeze (F)
  • O Come All Ye Faithful (E flat)
  • Pollywolly Doodle (E flat)
  • This Old Man (B flat)
  • Up on the Housetop (B flat)
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (E flat)
• Add to the book (Songs Section & Appendix)
  

Intro

• Finish the visual ‘Definition of an interval’ section
  • write the ‘Why intervals matter’ end part of this section

R-Grams

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

Playing

• Write the “Holding the Horn” section
  • Take a picture of “Make an L with the Left Hand”
  • Take a picture of “Hand L” next to the “L of the Bell”
  • Take a picture of the “L of the Slide”
  • Take a picture of the horn put together from POV of the player
  • Write intro and outro of this section.
• ‘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
  • Insert some more exercises that don’t involve R-Grams between “First Notes” and “Downbeat Fermatas” section
  • Write some exercises that add low Bflat and partial two
  • Write some exercises that make the transition into partial three

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)
• Find any exercises that absolutely need to be included and write out if necessary

Printing / Proofing / Binding

• Print a double sided copy of Book 1 on my printer (print odd pages, flip then print even). Do this by Friday at 6 pm.
• Place in a binder and look for any errors then correct.
• Troubleshoot & fix any problems that come up in printing.
• Check the flow of the Book, see if it makes sense, fix anything that needs fixing.

–Update:  9/9/07–

Wow, there’s a lot of things still up there but from what I can tell I seem to have most of the big things completed.  The printing/proofing/binding didn’t happen because the copiers I have access to are out of commission.  So no book for the kids this week.  Inputting those remaining songs took a good amount of time but I think I’ve exhausted all the public domain possibilities for the book for now.