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Musical Nourishment: Designing Your Daily Instructional Menu

Musical Nourishment: Designing Your Daily Instructional Menu

Making the right instructional choices to develop your students can be overwhelming if you don’t take the time to consider…
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Advice for Teaching Small Concert Bands

Advice for Teaching Small Concert Bands

Advice for Teaching Small Concert Bands – Readers’ Collaborative Post  In our recent survey, we asked Band Directors Talk Shop readers,…
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Motivate your High Achieving Band Students with Select Band

Motivate your High Achieving Band Students with Select Band

If you are looking for a new way to challenge your top band students, select band is a fun, motivational…
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Techniques to Improve Tone Quality in Your Band

Techniques to Improve Tone Quality in Your Band

Developing the best tone quality is essential when getting your students ready for any performance. Having the best tone quality…
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Why Doesn’t My Band Sound Good?

Why Doesn’t My Band Sound Good?

For my first several years of teaching band, I wanted my bands to sound great. And I really wanted that…
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20 MORE Analogies That I Have Used With My Band (With Even More Love)That You (May) Have Not

20 MORE Analogies That I Have Used With My Band (With Even More Love)That You (May) Have Not

Between my work for Band Directors Talk Shop and The Instrumentalist, I have had the honor to see over two dozen articles born…
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