Category: Tools for Teaching
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Games Using The Big Boom™ Theory
They’re More Than Just Flash Cards! So you have purchased a Rhythm Counting Basics Boom™ Card Deck for use with your music students. Is it just a digital flash card or are there other ways to use this product? Here are a few ideas that might expand the educational value of the Boom™ Card(s) in…
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Five Tips for Teaching Rhythm With Boom™ Cards
Having been a music teacher for over 40 years I have experienced numerous teaching scenarios. My first teaching experience was while I was in undergraduate school, teaching private trombone lessons. My first gig was in a small but very active band program, teaching high school band, jazz band and two levels of music theory. From…
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Rhythm And Beginning Band: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Recently I was talking with a fellow retired band director who had started teaching again on a part-time basis. We covered all kinds of aspects of starting young students on band instruments, but this discussion could apply to strings as well. During our discussion of various aspects of the beginning instrumental music process we covered…
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Thoughts on Concert Programing or All You Need to Know about Planning Your Concert
As a young band director, one of my many challenges was how to program for concerts. Being in a small Midwestern high school with a strong and dominant jazz program, planning the concert band concerts was more difficult than I had anticipated. First of all, the concert band instrumentation was far from balanced. With the…
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