This new class offers a chance for those students who have never played a band instrument to begin. The class will teach basic technique, tone production, rhythmic counting, and listening skills. This class if for all freshmen wind instrumentalists who have played in the middle school band.
Emphasis is on learning basic technique that is needed for playing advanced level music.
Scale study, rhythm study and basic music theories are focused upon. Students in the Band perform four concerts yearly sometimes in combination with the Concert Band. Class members participate in solo and ensemble festival and full band festival. The Freshman Band members do not march in the fall but may play as members of the Pep Band and perform in the Lilac parade in the spring. This class is for all percussionists who have not auditioned into the Symphonic Band.