Panther Pep Band Winter 2011-12

Check out the pep band schedule for winter 2011-12. Remember that pep band is open to all 8th through 12th grade band students and 7th grade after winter break. See you at the games!

Welcome Back!!

It seems like just yesterday that we were marching in the Fall Festival parade and sitting in a bus stopped in the middle of I-94(talk to Mr. P or Mike Arvidson for the full story:). However, we're back at the beginning of another exciting school year. I hope that everyone is excited or a mildly eager to be in school again.
I've spent some time going through both new music as well as the music in our band library and have come up with some awesome possibilities for this year's concerts. In addition to the music, we have a couple new tools to use in band. First is SmartMusic. SmartMusic is a program that will play accompaniment, change tempo, record your performance and rate your performance. It's really cool and the students that have used it so far have enjoyed seeing their results. The other tool we have is Finale. Finale will allow us to write music and exercises to use for individual practice or large group applications. No more hand written parts from Mr. P. !! If you want to check either of these programs out, let me know and you can come in and give them a try. See you all next week!