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Goals: do you have them? Use this episode of Feeding the Birds as a kickstart to crushing your goals for this week.
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Self-care is important when it comes to keeping yourself happy and healthy. How do you take care of you?
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Get creative when listening to your students play! Excelcia composers Larry Clark and Tyler Arcari discuss different tactics for critiquing your band.
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Relationships are an important part of being a band director. Make sure you’re making the right connections with another episode of Feeding the Birds.
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Leaving concert band behind is for the birds…incorporate it into your routine early with these tips from composers Larry Clark and Tyler Arcari of Excelcia Music Publishing.
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As a composer, I am often asked how to interpret one of my pieces and to give specifics on different aspects of it. This can range from as general as tempo to more specific things like phrasing or what exactly I had in mind with a specific marking. I appreciate that these questions come from…
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A colleague of mine once asked, “Do our bands start sounding bad right before a contest or did we finally start listening?” The earlier we start to really listen, the better our marching bands will be. As with concert band, jazz band and chamber ensembles, it takes daily cultivation and development over a long period…
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Any of us who have spent time in the classroom know that at some point a student will come up to you and want you to look at a piece that they wrote. If you are not yourself a composer/arranger don’t sweat it, there are things you can do that will help to cultivate a…
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