Band
These are the three families of instruments in the band.
What are Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion?
This must be done before entering the band room due to the COVID pandemic.
What is washing hands?
This is the number of songs we generally play for a KAIAC Large Group Festival.
What is three?
This is the most important thing you do when you play your instrument
What is produce a good (characteristic) tone?
Where are you trying to go when Mr. G answers your question with, "If you can't you'll get sick and die."
What is the bathroom?
These instruments voiced in Alto, Tenor and Baritone belong belong to which type of instruments.
What are saxophones?
When the director does this it is time to focus and move into ready position.
What is standing on the podium?
This is the highest level of performance at a KAIAC Large Group Festival.
What is Platinum?
These are two of the three elements of good posture.
What are feet flat on the floor, back straight, forward in the chair.
There is where Mr. Ganus says to start when he wants to being at the beginning.
Where is the bald spot?
This is the tool that the band director uses in order to conduct the beat more clearly.
What is a baton?
These are the three things that you need bring with you each day to band.
What are instrument, plus file and a pencil?
There are generally three types of music performed at a festival. They are lyrical selections, technical selections and _________.
What are marches?
This fuels good sounds from your brass or woodwind instrument.
What is air?
This is what Mr. Ganus says your reed needs if it seems old or cracked.
What is a Wall Test?
The English Horn belongs to this family of instruments.
What are Woodwinds?
This is where you find the music that we will be playing for concerts as well as warm up materials and major announcements.
What is the Band Webpage?
In a KAIAC Festival, the judges listen for these major musical concepts.
What are Tone, Technique and Musicianship?
This family of instruments use techniques like diddles, flams, buzzes, single strokes and rise of height to create sounds.
What are percussion?
Mr. Ganus says like excuses, everyone has got two of these and they both stink.
What are arm pits?
This collection of musicians work together to make music by playing harmonic, rhythmic and melodic passages together with careful listening and skillful performance skills.
What is an ensemble?
This where you go to see announcements and assignments each day.
What is Google Classroom?
This what the acronym KAIAC stands for.
What is the Korean American Interscholastic Activities Conference?
This technique of musicianship involves the rise and fall of musical ideas throughout the performance.
What is phrasing?
What is don't play it so-low I cannot hear it?