If I were to just print out and bind the material that I currently have for the book it would already be one hell of a lot more than I had last year at this time. Book 1 is at 228 pages and counting. Book 2 is at 91. Now that I have those 228 pages printed out, I’m realizing that I need to split the “Songs” section into it’s own stand alone book. It’ll be more binding to do, but so be it.

Here’s how I see the books breaking down:

Book 1 – GBD… & R-grams
Book 2 – Songs & Appendix
Book 3 – Focus Sheets

Here are the remaining project parts:

Songs & Appendix

• Format the “Songs & Appendix” section as it’s own book
• Make any necessary changes to the current book 1 to reflect this change…
• Write an introduction to the ‘Songs & Appendix’ book, explaining whats included
• Add these to the ‘Songs & Appendix’ section
  • 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)

Book 1

• Finish the visual ‘Definition of an interval’ section
  • write the ‘Why intervals matter’ end part of this section
• Finish the “What the symbols mean” section (p. 44)
• Write the “Rhyth-a-Gram wrap up” (p.45)
• 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
  • 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
If the copiers are working by Wednesday at noon I’ll do the following:

• Print my current single pages copy to double sided (complete)
• Place in a binder and look for any errors then correct. (complete)
• Check the flow of the Book, see if it makes sense, fix anything that needs fixing. (complete)

–Update:  9/16/07–

A quick glance above will reveal that I didn’t do much on the book this week.  I spent a lot of time preparing for my audition, and this was the first week back teaching my students.  I’m still figuring out what material to give my guys on Wednesday.  To be continued…