{"id":496,"date":"2026-01-22T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:40:17","slug":"acs-band-newsletter-1-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/2026\/01\/22\/acs-band-newsletter-1-22-26\/","title":{"rendered":"ACS Band Newsletter &#8211; 1\/22\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Week in Class<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, we continued to utilize our &#8220;Airflow&#8221; and &#8220;Flexibility&#8221; Exercises. Both are found in our &#8220;Framework Fundamentals- Set 1&#8221; Warm-Up handout in students&#8217; binders. Below is a video students can use to practice along with; the exercises we are working on happen towards the middle of the video, so you will have to fast-forward a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students continued work on labeling notes and fingerings for their first two scales: Concert Bb and Concert Eb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Framework Fundamentals - Drone + Metronome\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGLPLw3ydcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pep Band Sign-Ups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To sign-up to perform in the Pep Band for Boys&#8217; Basketball, please click on this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C084AAAAA2DA6FAC43-61460375-pepband\">https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C084AAAAA2DA6FAC43-61460375-pepband<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will notice some days have 2 time slots. This means there are two basketball games: the first game starts at 4 pm and the second game starts at 5:15 pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember, the more students sign-up, the more sound and excitement we can create for our team and spectators!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Duet Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In anticipation of our Spring &#8220;Celebration of the Arts,&#8221; we have been taking time to practice ensemble playing on a smaller scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students have worked on the first 2 duets in our &#8220;Progressive Duets for the Young Musician.&#8221; Below is a video students may use to practice along with! Duet #2 is homework for Friday&#8217;s class (1\/16\/26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Progressive Duets for Young Band Musicians | *FREE*\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQrK8S76cRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you and have a blessed weekend! We start the next semester next week! The Lord makes all things new (Revelation 21:5)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week in Class This week, we continued to utilize our &#8220;Airflow&#8221; and &#8220;Flexibility&#8221; Exercises. Both are found in our &#8220;Framework Fundamentals- Set 1&#8221; Warm-Up handout in students&#8217; binders. Below is a video students can use to practice along with; the exercises we are working on happen towards the middle of the video, so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/2026\/01\/22\/acs-band-newsletter-1-22-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACS Band Newsletter &#8211; 1\/22\/26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-newsletter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.assumption.org\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}