Planning and organizing concert events is part of every music educator’s job description, whether you are a gifted event planner or not.
Music for the Holidays
As the season approaches, now is the perfect time to prepare for your December concerts! Browse holiday music for concert band, orchestra, jazz ensemble, and choir that is available in MakeMusic Cloud with these playlists full of holiday cheer.
Power Up! Beginning Percussionists Success on Keyboard Instruments
Before even tackling how to approach and play the instrument, students need to know their notes on the staff (both treble and bass clefs!) and where they fall on the keyboard.
Power Up! French Horn Tone
Horn is such a versatile instrument, thus the concept of characteristic tone is actually quite situationally dependent. But for our purposes as teachers, horn sound should be really round, warm, open and resonant.
Power Up! Creating a Resonant Sound: Starting Your Clarinet Students Off Right!
Who doesn’t love a dark, rich, and vibrant clarinet sound? It’s a beautiful instrument, and when our clarinet section sounds amazing, our band does too!
Power Up! Percussion Accessories Fundamentals
In the middle and high school setting so much time is devoted to the teaching of snare drum, timpani and the keyboard instruments that the proper techniques needed to play some of the smaller percussion instruments are often neglected or overlooked.
Power Up! Oboe Technique, Tone, and Performance
A good reed can make a “mediocre” to “not so strong” player sound beautiful.
Power Up! Timpani Fundamentals for Beginning Percussionists
Timpani is often overlooked by band directors, especially at the middle school level, and can be intimidating for young students.
Power Up! Euphonium and Tuba Tone
As a band director whose primary instrument is trumpet, there were a lot of things that I took for granted when I started teaching low brass as a young teacher.
Power Up! Teaching and Correcting Flute Tone
Approaching flute tone early on, even on just the headjoint, will not only create more vibrant, clear sounds from your section but helps with projection and tuning.