Bandroom Tips
Helping Your Flute Students Play in Tune
It is extremely common for young flute players to play with the flute placed too high on their bottom lip. Playing this way causes the sound to be thin, shrill and...
Tuning a Flute
A flute, with proper design, is made to produce a particular scale with the headjoint set in only one optimum location. Deviating from this ideal location will require the player...
Tell Them HOW to Practice!
This tip for new music educators comes time proven based on my many years experience as a middle and high school band director, and fine arts administrator. Imagine...
Engaging those trouble makers in the back of your band room…
Ah yes, the percussion section, ever so important to the whole sound of the ensemble and ever so responsible for sounds you rarely want to hear. Talking too much,...
Students Not Playing Their Instrument in Class?
As a band director, I am sure you are aware that sometimes students don’t play their instrument in band class. There can be a myriad of reasons for this: 1) they...
Quick Percussion Clips: Fixing Stick Heights
The smallest details make all the difference. Help your percussionists equalize their stick heights and create continuity within your percussion line.
Quick Percussion Clips: Tuning Marching Bass Drums
Does your marching bass drum sound need improving? See this to break down the process of tuning marching bass drums.
Quick Percussion Clips: Bass Drum Muffling
This video shows multiple ways of muffling a bass drum.
Quick Percussion Clips: Flams & Accent Taps
Breaking down a Flam and an Accent Tap to teach clarity of each rudiment.
