Student Name:____________________________Class period:______

Due Date:________________________________________________

Cougar Band Practice Chart

All students should practice 3 hours (180 minutes) a week and log the hours per day.  This chart is due every Thursday/ Friday class day with student and parent signatures.

FRIDAY________________SATURDAY______________________

SUNDAY_______________MONDAY________________________

TUESDAY______________WEDNESDAY_____________________

THURSDAY____________TOTAL___________________________

I certify that the hours/minutes logged on this practice chart are true and accurate.

Parent Signature:___________________________________________

Student Signature:__________________________________________

Practice:

• Practice Daily for progress and results.
• Assemble instrument correctly and carefully.
• Warm-up and condition embouchure by breathing, playing long tones, crescendos/decrescendos, tuning, and playing with a good tone at every dynamic level.
• Practice scales and arpeggios to get your fingers moving along with your brain.
• Practice assigned music selections.  DO NOT play fast.  Practice slowly, note by note until your fingers know where to go and then increase tempos slowly.   Always work up to the tempos that we discuss in class.
• Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Student Name:____________________________Class period:______

Due Date:________________________________________________