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Damon Runyon Ram Band

Welcome to the Runyon Ram Band Webpage!

All information concerning our Beginning and Advanced Band will be posted here for you and your parents. This webpage will be the primary method of communication for band members and parents. In our first rehearsals, we will learn to navigate this site. Once you learn how to navigiate through the page, please share this information with your parents so we can always be sure that we are 'on the same page!'

Please check back to this page for band application forms, general information, performance dates, and more...

Mr. W.

Instrument Rental

Band members must provide their own instruments. Below are 3 links to music outfitters that I recommend for instrument rental and maintenance. If your student already has an instrument, please ensure that the instrument is in good working order (I can assist with this). Nothing will discourage a beginning student more than a defective instrument.

I also strongly discourage purchasing an instrument from a department store/toy store. Instruments from these stores are typically not built to identical specifications, resulting in inaccuracies in pitch/tone/fingering when playing ensemble music, also discouraging new musicians while rehearsing.

Band Schedule

Beginning Band Rehearsals

3:20pm - 4:00pm

Mondays and Wednesdays

Advanced Band Rehearsals

3:20pm - 4:00pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Band Beg./Adv.

All rehearsals begin promptly at 3:20p.m. and will conclude at 4:00p.m. Please be prompt when picking up your child after rehearsals.

Beginning Band rehearses on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning on Monday, September 7th. This fall we will be working on the following skills:

Rehearsal Ettiquette
Practicing at Home
Instrument Care
Tone Production
Beginning Band Music Literature

Advanced Band rehearses on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on Tuesday, September 8th. We will continue honing skills learned last year in beginning band.

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Please bring the following items to every rehearsal:

Your instrument
Your band book (we using the Essential Elements 2000 method books)
A pencil