Upcoming events
Click here to view the Pearson Band Calendar. Most band events for the 2024-2025 school year have been added to the calendar. Click here to view a list of required (graded) band events for the 24-25 school year.
October 16th- Beginner Band Show and Tell Concert @ Pearson MS- 6 PM-7:00 PM (required)
Beginning Band Show and Tell Concert
Date: Wednesday October 16, 2024
Location: Pearson Middle School Cafeteria
Time: 6:30-7:00pm
Schedule:
5:45pm - Students arrive. Please enter the school through the exterior band hall doors on the south side of the school. Uncase instruments and gather all necessary supplies and band binders.
6:00pm - All students are seated in the cafeteria for a dress rehearsal. Cafeteria doors will be locked during the rehearsal.
6:25pm - Cafeteria Doors open. Parents can enter and find their seats.
6:30pm - Concert Begins
approximately 7:00pm - Concert Ends
Attire: Students will wear their band t-shirt, pants, and tennis shoes or sneakers.
Students will need their instrument (and necessary supplies) and band binder for this performance.
This is a required (graded) performance. All students must be in attendance.
High School Corner
Both the Reedy and Frisco High School Bands are into their competitive marching seasons!
Last weekend, the Reedy HS Band won FIRST in class 5A at the Wylie Marching Invitational! They also won second place overall and first place in music overall! The Reedy Band's next competitive performance will be at UIL on Saturday, October 19th at 3:30 PM in the Little Elm ISD Stadium
Last weekend, the Frisco HS Band won BEST Woodwinds in class 5A at the Don Hanna Marching Contest in Denton! Their next performance will be this Saturday at 3:30 PM at Burleson High School
Want to hear more about the Reedy and Frisco Bands? Check them out on Instagram! @reedyband and @friscohighband
Practice Journals
All Beginning Band students should be taking their instrument home and practicing daily. During their practice time, students should play and reinforce concepts being taught in class and work on any material they are struggling to play. A daily practice habit is essential to becoming a great musician! Please help your student to build this habit by encouraging (and sometimes telling) them to practice every day.
Starting this week, all members of the Pearson Band have been assigned a practice journal to track their practicing and to help them develop practice habits that will lead them to success in band. This is a graded assignment due every Monday and must be signed by a parent to be considered complete. The rubric and expectations for the practice journal can be found here.
Parents, the following is a fantastic guide for what and how your student should be practicing: https://practicingguide.weebly.com/
Private Lessons
We highly recommend all students in Beginning Band sign up for private lessons. Private lessons are a great way to progress on your instrument with the assistance of a master teacher who plays that same instrument. While tutoring in a core class might only be to catch up or erase deficits in the learning process, private lessons are for everyone. Typically, the top musicians in the band program are ones that are in private lessons!
This is the time to sign up. Our teachers are in high demand and teach across several different campuses and districts. Lesson times are first come first serve, so sign up ASAP. You can sign up by reaching out to the lesson teachers directly via email, which can be found at our website HERE. You can also email Mr. Jenson at jensonm@friscoisd.org.
Instruments and Supplies
All band students need an instruments and supplies in order to be successful in band this year. If you have not ordered them, please click on the following link for directions on how to do so.
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