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Knowing that warmups can get tedious and boring, I do my best to keep them interesting to the students at the high school level while still applying them to the content that we are working on. In this video, I teach the students the bass line to Holiday by Greenday as well as a basic bass progression for rap music. In this exercise, we still work on the basic concepts of music that we need to while having some fun. This helps bring the band class to being more relevant for those students who listen to that kind of music. Holiday was one of their favorite pep band tunes, so bringing it into the warmup was a major hit! They asked to play it several times after that and I could hear them warming up with it.
Knowing that warmups can get tedious and boring, I do my best to keep them interesting to the students at the high school level while still applying them to the content that we are working on. In this video, I teach the students the bass line to Holiday by Greenday as well as a basic bass progression for rap music. In this exercise, we still work on the basic concepts of music that we need to while having some fun. This helps bring the band class to being more relevant for those students who listen to that kind of music. Holiday was one of their favorite pep band tunes, so bringing it into the warmup was a major hit! They asked to play it several times after that and I could hear them warming up with it.