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The Sound of Excellence

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.     

-Charlie Parker

Band Handbook
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Christmas Concert 2019
ACEL Fine Arts Festival 2019
Essential Elements Interactive

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

At ODCA we use Essential Elements for Band. It offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.

THE BAND PROGRAM STRIVES TO ACHIEVE THESE FOUR GOALS:

  1. To establish a means of developing creativity, self-confidence, self-expression, and self-fulfillment through the realization of a student’s musical talent.
  2. To provide a strong foundation in music fundamentals by learning to play a musical instrument.
  3. To provide a background in the appreciation of music and develop the skills necessary to begin a life-long enjoyment of music either as a recreation or a profession.
  4. To promote self-discipline, organizational skills, responsibility, and good citizenship by working toward common goals of musical achievement and performance excellence. 

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