- The after-school Jazz Band Program starts this week - Monday, Feb. 8th is the Beginning Jazz and Weds., Feb. 10th is the Advanced Jazz. The beginning jazz class #9251374 is for those who have at least 1 year playing experience on your instrument but no jazz experience. The advanced jazz class #9251283 is for those who have played in at least 1 year in a jazz band or jazz lessons. Register today by clicking here. If you have further questions or want to inquire about financial need, please email Mr. Chris Clark at chris@smartfoundation.org. If you have not turned in your registration form, you may still show up to the first rehearsal anyways. You will need to make sure to get it in by the next week.
- Pictures ordered on picture day - The students should be getting the group and individual pictures on February 8th. Periods 1-2 will get them on February 9th. Please ask to see them!
.Photos posted! New photos for all classes. Look at the "Pictures" Link in the right column of this page.
- Area Concert combined song recordings
- Band = Star Wars (short version)
- Orchestra = Orpheus in the Underworld (full fast version - we won't play it that fast)
Song recordings - Want to hear song recordings from the actual music we are playing in our class? Click on "Song Recordings" found in the far right column on this page next to the dancing music note.
Music teacher appreciation contest - Help your class and/or private music teacher win a trip and you, as the student, to win a Presto bow or $500 Thomastik-Infled certificate from SharMusic. Please ask your parents for permission before entering. Click on the image below to enter. You only have until Feb. 28th to enter!
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Newhart Middle School Instrumental Music
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No School on Friday or Monday (Feb. 12 & 15)
- Mr. Kent Klingbeil
- and Mrs. Valerie Petty
krklingbeil@capousd.org
- vapetty@capousd.org
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Great Music YouTube Videos
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Do you know any appropriate YouTube videos
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- Please email the link to Mrs. Petty at
- vapetty@capousd.org. Please no spam. :)
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- Gliga Violins/Violas (local & online store) New Romanian violins and violas. Good instrument for the cost. Some of our students have purchased the GEMS model and we have been impressed.
- Horn Improvement (local store) band, orchestra and percussion equipment, supplies and instruments
- JWPepper (online) sheet music
- Lemur Music (local store) string bass equipment, supplies and instruments
- Shar Music (online) string equipment & instruments
- SMART Foundation (local store) band, orchestra and percussion equipment, supplies and instruments
- Southwest Strings (online) string equipment & instruments
- Woodwind & Brasswind (online) band, orchestra and percussion equipment, supplies and instruments
If a store that you use is missing off this list, please email Mrs. Petty (vapetty@capousd.org) with the url and she will add it. Thanks!
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- The Color Test - Test your ability to identify colors, not words.
- Jigsaw puzzle - Puzzles change daily!
- Bother a living spider - Poke & prod the spider with your mouse, also 'grab' one of its legs with your mouse & drag it around the screen -- tell me it's not alive! Also, anywhere on the map, click & hit the space bar & it leaves little bugs. Watch the spider go after the bugs & eat them! This is totally crazy and creepy too!
- A most interesting clock - It shows seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and year
- Sudoku Puzzles - from easy to hard
- A Robot Clarinet - Very cool! Can you play this fast?
- Do you have Perfect Pitch? Do you know what the pitches sound like?
- Illusions - Which direction is the girl moving? Most see it clockwise, few see it the other way. Can you see both?
- Do you know anything appropriate
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- Please email the file or link to Mrs. Petty at
- vapetty@capousd.org. Please no spam. :)
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- Q: What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft??
- A: A flat minor.
Q: What do you get when you drop a piano on an army base?
- A: A flat major.
- Q: Why is a bassoon better than an oboe?
- A: The bassoon burns longer.
- Q: How many clarinet players does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Only one, but he'll go through a whole box of bulbs before he find just the right one.
- Q: How many trumpet players does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Five. One to handle the bulb and four to tell him how much better they could have done it.
- Q: How do you fix a broken tuba?
- A: With a tuba glue.
- Q: What did the drummer get on his IQ test?
- A: Drool.
- Q: How do you get a cello player to play fortissimo?
- A: Write pp, espressivo
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