Fine Arts department

Grade 6 Beginning Band

All 6th Grade students at CIC earn their Music credit in Band. The Beginning Band is designed to teach proper foundations of playing a wind instrument to students with no musical experience, while also giving students with prior musical knowledge or instrumental experience additional opportunities for self-expression. In Beginning Band, students learn proper posture, breath support, horn carriage, and embouchure; staff, clef, time signature, rhythm, pitch, articulation, and other basic music symbols; and methods for setting goals, planning strategies, completing tasks, and evaluating results. As an IB-MYP Arts class, Beginning Band emphasizes that music is a creative process as well as an activity, that music is an intrinsic component of personal and cultural expression, and that music is an enjoyable hands-on activity rather than a consumer product.

Beginning Band members are required to practice at home at least six days per week. The Beginning Band performs as a unit at concerts and school events.

Beginning Band Syllabus

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Beginning Band Repertoire