Upcoming events
December 17- Winter Concert Rehearsal- 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
December 18- Winter Concert- 6:30-7:00 PM
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.
High School Corner
Both the Reedy and Frisco High School Bands are into their competitive marching seasons! BOTH bands earned a Sweepstakes Award at their UIL last Saturday and will compete at Area this Saturday. The contest is at the Melissa ISD Stadium (3030 Milrany Ln, Melissa, TX 75454). Reedy performs in prelims at 1:00 PM and Frisco performs at 3:00 PM. If they place in the top 10, then the band gets to perform again that night at finals! The finals competition is also what determines who goes to the State Marching Contest in November- Go Reedy and go Frisco!!
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/Â
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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