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seventeen-minute lesson where my focus was to make students more comfortable with
7/8 time. The students kept delaying the 7th beat eighth note pick-up to each measure,
which is why I wanted to work on it. We began with having the metronome on the
Harmony Director at a slow tempo. I said a rhythm on the syllable ta and the students
would repeat. Then the students would play my rhythm on a unison concert C, since the
piece begins in C minor. Then we kept the slow tempo to work the beginning to rehearsal
letter B. My projected start time was a little bit later because Doug took longer than
B. In this lesson, my strengths revolved around specific feedback. I have found that most
of my lessons are similar in this aspect. Many young bands have a difficult time playing
in mixed meter like 7/8 time. They tend to play the seventh beat too late if it is a pick-up
eighth note into the next bar. So in this lesson I spent a lot of time telling students not to
play the seventh beat too long, or to give it space, etc. My weakness this lesson was that I
had an almost equal amount of general and specific praise. I definitely need to include
more specific praise. Some examples of specific praise were, great posture, Steve and
I like how separated the flutes played it. Unfortunately, at the end of playing a large
section, I would tend to sometimes say good or not say anything at all.
C. I think that I would review to make sure that student felt more comfortable playing in
the 7/8 time, but I believe that it was a pretty good lesson overall. The Symphonic Band
meets every day fifty minutes so it is nice that the youngest and least experienced
students receive more attention. Next lesson I plan to revisit the companion guide and
really focus on articulation. The piece is currently being played too heavy and the notes
are too long. It needs to be much lighter and have more separation. I would also like to
improve on dynamics in the next lesson since there were many hairpins that were not