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Six Current RBJH Students in the RBJH Musicians' Hall of Fame

Six current Roanoke-Benson Junior High School students are in the RBJH Musicians' Hall of Fame. Students are named to the Hall of Fame when they have played all 12 major scales 60 seconds or less without an error. These six students are; Cameron Anderson, Clarinet; Nolan Bluner, Trumpet; Nichole Daughtery, Clarinet; Samantha Hayes, Mallets; Rachel Hodel, Flute; Grant Leman, Trumpet; Congratulations students! updated: January 1, 2009

Pandora Presents... the Musicology Show

Pandora, an online radio station that allows each listener the option of selecting the what music to listen to, has an online musicology show. These online podcasts explains what many different parts of songs - rhythm, harmony, melody, lyrics, and many others. Listen to the Pandora's Musicology Show.

posted: October 11, 2008

85 Music Department Students Participating in Trip to Disney

Eighty-five students have signed up to participate in the Music Department's trip to Florida in June 2009. Information on payment schedule will be posted on the "Disney Trip" webpage (link posted on the left side). posted: September 16, 2008

RBJH Band Lessons

The RBJH Band Lesson schedule (including our new Beginning Band members) is available online. Click here for a copy of the 2008-2009 RBJH Band Lesson Schedule. posted: September 17, 2008


Cool High-Tech Ways to Stay Informed

Want to know what is happening, but don't have time to always check the RB Band website? Here is two ways very cool ways you can stay update.

1) Use www.sendmerss.com to have updates emailed directly to you. It's simple, free and no spam!

2) Always connected to your cell phone? Then you need to use www.web-alerts.com and have updates sent to your cell phone as text messages.

These cool high-tech ways to stay informed are both simple to do and free. They will also work on other websites that have an rss feed. The web address for the RB Band's RSS feed is http://www.rb60.com/band/RBBandFeed.xml posted: Aug 17, 2008


2009 Music Department Trip to Disney

Plans are being made for the RBHS Marching Band and Concert Choir to perform at Walt Disney World in June 2009. Information will be sent home with students prior to summer vacation. Please email Mr. Hayes or Mrs. Aupperle if you would like to assist in planning and raising funds for the trip!


    Pandora Internet Radio - Plays the Music You Like

Check out Pandora Interet Radio. You can create your own internet radio stations that will select and play only the music that you like. posted: Aug 13, 2008

    NPR Music Website Offers Wide Variety of Music

National Public Radio (NPR) has a wonderful music website. The website has audio and video recordings of concerts, studio sessions, and interviews of musicians from many different genres. All the recordings on website are free. Check out this website at www.npr.org/music.


Important Information Regarding RB Band Students Purchasing Supplies

Instrumental supplies (reeds, oil, method books, etc…) are no longer sold, on a regular basis, thru the RB Music Boosters. Parents are to purchase instrumental supplies online through the website of Kidder Music Service, Inc. These supplies will be delivered to the school without shipping charges. The supplies, ordered online, are the same price that the RB Music Boosters would pay for them, but the need and liability of the RB Music Boosters being the "middle man" is eliminated. RBHS and RBJH will continue to keep a limited amount of instrumental supplies on hand for those families that do not have the ability to order supplies online. These supplies will be sold on cash in advance basis.

Neither the Roanoke-Benson School District nor the Roanoke-Benson Music Boosters endorse one particular music store. Parents are free to order instrumental supplies from whomever they wish to. Kidder Music is the only dealer in the area that routinely visits the school to deliver supplies. If parents have any questions they should feel free to call or email the director.



RSS - It's not just for Geeks!
 

RSS is a convenient way for you to have the latest news about the Roanoke – Benson Band Department sent directly to you as it is posted.

Read our RSS FAQ web page for information and directions on how to subscribing to our RSS feed.
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To obtain our RSS feed, copy and paste the URL listed below into your aggregator.
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FREE Music Programs You Should Have on Your Computer

Functional Ear Trainer an amazing ear training software program that trains you to recognize notes in a context of a key that the music is played in. If you are serious about music, download this program.

Acidplanet XPress is a loop-based composition program. Create your own songs using professionally created loops. Save your song to your mp3 player!

Audacity is a multi-track recorder. Transfer music files into different formats.Plug a microphone into your computer and record yourself. Save your recordings in a variety of different music formats. Click here for help in getting started with Audacity.

Finale Notepad is a notation program. Compose, listen and then print your own compositions!

Anvil Studio allows you to record, compose, sequence music using midi instruments.

'e' Chromatic Tuner a free and easy to use tuner.

AmazingMidiautomatically transcribes music, converting WAV files into MIDI files.

TwelveKeys is a program designed to assist musicians to transcribe music recordings. Are you in a cover band? This is for you.

Classical Music

Classical Music Archives

The Classical Music Archives, the largest archive of its kind on the web, offers tens of thousands of classical music files in MIDI, Windows Media and MP3 format you can listen to at the click of your mouse. Most composers are represented - with biographies and timelines. A major award-winning cultural site which provides its own indexes and search engines by keywords or composer. This site also has a free online classical music radio station.


#1 on Google

Being ranked #1 on Google is a highly sought after position. Search for “4th grade general music” in Google, and you will find our website ranked #1 out of over 1 million hits!



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