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Latest stuff from our blog
Writing Split Snare Parts in Sibelius
Here’s a basic summary of the steps demonstrated in this tutorial: Add some extra staves below the desired staff (i.e., two extra staves beneath the snareline staff). Open the mixer and pan one of your secondary staves to the left, and the other to the right (more info on the…-
Marching Band Copyright Licensing
So it’s marching band design season, and you’e got a bunch of pieces you’d like to use in your next Fall show. However, they are all in a foreign language, you have no idea who the publisher is, and you have no idea where to begin going about acquiring the… -
Three Levels of Listening
Every music educator has a drum that they beat day in and day out. Not the literal drum, as many of us are simply not gifted in the percussive arts. (If you’re like me, hopefully you’ve avoided having your inadequacies caught on tape – pray you keep it that way).… -
Technology + Student + You = Win
Technology is here to stay. It is not going to go away, nor is it going to become less complex or invasive in the near future. Our students are going to continue to text just like past generations passed notes. They will continue to populate places like Facebook and Twitter like previous generations populated… -
Design: More Than Notes and Dots
Welcome to late December. Throughout most of the United States, competitive marching band is done or is winding down. Football is entering the middle stages of play-offs, and many a sousaphone are shuttling off for a good post-season cleaning. It’s time to begin designing next fall’s marching band show –… -
Next Year’s Freshmen
The scariest moment for any director is the day the class requests for the following year arrive. It’s a make-or-break moment, when you see how many new performers will be matriculating up to replace the seasoned veterans that are on their way out. It is the hope of any director… -
Consistency in Education
Children are impatient. Spend a day around a five-year-old who has accumulated the knowledge to know how some life-mechanism works but still lacks the focus to see it through, and you will see a small-scale version of the workings of an average teenage mind. Much like the annoying boss in… -
Choosing Concert Band Music
The months of November and December are two of my absolute favorites as a band director. Aside from the obvious excitement of finishing out marching band and football, there’s the added benefit of selecting concert music for the Spring semester thrown in. In Texas, our Spring semester selections come from…