On the 15^th of October, grade 6 band students were able to attend their modified, one day band workshop.

This year, as well as preparing their pieces for the end of year, they had a special project to complete at the workshop. The grade 6 Central band have been selected to represent the band program in the south of the state to learn and record a piece of music for the upcoming Department of Education celebration, Extraordinary. They worked hard to learn and rehearse ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ and had the experience of working with a professional audio and tv film crew. We had to play ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ many times in a row so that the film crew could get the best possible take, and they will then splice our performance with similar performances from the North and North West Tasmanian bands.

The students enjoyed the process of filming and also found it difficult playing the same piece through so many times in a row. They found the muscles in their faces were very tired by the end of the day!

They enjoyed spending time with friends they made at last years workshop and afterschool rehearsals and have really enjoyed being part of the band program in Grade 5 and 6.