Education Resources
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...
Pop Concerts Make Positive Impacts
Many music departments are looking for new methods to build support, motivate students andimprove recruitment and retention. One educational and entertaining way is...
Using Technology In The Classroom
Teaching can be incredibly difficult, especially in your first year. Keeping track of student names, grades, lesson, discipline, seating charts...not to mention at...
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...
Building a Better Band Program Through Successful School & Community Relationships
My name is Kerry Evans, and I'm the band director at Madison Middle School in Richmond, Kentucky. I hold a couple of degrees from the music department at Eastern...
Recruiting approaches for low brass players
I remember walking into the band room when I was 11 years old and meeting my great middle school band director, Mr. Charles Foster. His talk that day changed the...
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...
