GPS (Grade Performance Steps) Year One Band

The GPS (Grade Performance Steps) – The Road to Musical Success! are a series of performance tasks that will provide your students tasks that will teach the Fundamental Concepts from the Revised Ontario Music Curriculum Grades 1-8 required at each grade to achieve musical success!

The tasks are:
Task 1 – Let’s Hear You!: Pitch
Task 2 – Feel the Beat: Beat
Task 3 – Start Putting It Together!: Beat/Rhythm
Task 4 – The Great Composition: Notation
Task 5 – Skipping So-Mi: Pitch
Task 6 – The First 5 Notes: Pitch/Rhythm
Task 7 – Feeling the Blues: Form
Task 8 – The Slur and the Roll: Expressive Controls
Task 9 – “Tie”ing It Together: Rhythm
Task 10 – Control It!: Pitch/Expressive Controls
Task 11 – Articulation Matters! Expressive Controls
Task 12 – The Great Composition Continues: Notation
Task 13 – Loud vs. Soft: Expressive Controls/Dynamics
Task 14 – Loud vs. Soft: Dynamics
Task 15 – Adding the Accent: Articulation
Task 16 – Becoming an Eighth Note Expert: Rhythm
Task 17 – “Picking-up” A New Skill: Rhythm
Task 18 – The Finishing Touches: Notation
Task 19 – Almost There: Expressive Controls
Task 20 – Finale!: Culminating Task