Tag: School Bands
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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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Five Strong Reasons Music Education Works For Our Students
Five Strong Reasons Music Education Works For Our Students Recently I read a very interesting article detailing the importance of school band programs and their positive effect on the overall student academic achievement and social development. Even though this article is focused on band programs, the information can be applied to any school arts program.…
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