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TMEA Clinic Previews for Band 2018 – Ideas You Can Use TODAY!

TMEA Clinic Previews for Band 2018 – Ideas You Can Use TODAY!

The Texas Music Educators Association Convention 2018 is coming up soon.  If you’re attending, these articles give you a real…
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Clarinet Tips on 4 Important Topics

Clarinet Tips on 4 Important Topics

This article covers the topics of hand position, crossing the break, venting and voicing. Clarinet Tips on Hand Position Bad…
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First Steps of Snare Drum (Part 2)

First Steps of Snare Drum (Part 2)

In my last article, I spent a great deal of time focused on getting the student to set up the…
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Teaching Snare Drum, Day One

Teaching Snare Drum, Day One

Teaching Snare Drum, Day One. We all know that those very first moments of instruction and learning on a new…
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Common Match Grip Problems for Beginning Percussionists

Common Match Grip Problems for Beginning Percussionists

Just as attention is spent on the beginning wind player’s embouchure, equal attention must be spent on the beginning percussionist’s…
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Saxophone F# & C – There’s a Time and Place for Every Fingering

Saxophone F# & C – There’s a Time and Place for Every Fingering

This is the second post in a series on saxophone fingering options. As I discussed in my previous article on…
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Crossing the Break on Clarinet – Smoothly!

Crossing the Break on Clarinet – Smoothly!

There are many factors that contribute to clarinet players going smoothly from A to B in the staff. Many people…
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