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Julian Scott Wilson sur Twitter : "@GastonSchools #gcsk12 #YCCougarPride #MusicEd #GoogleSlide Presentation on instrument families @yorkchesterms. Julian Scott Wilson sur Twitter : "#YCCougarPride @gastoncountyschool #gcsk12 #MusicEd with #Chromebooks #Creating Instr fam #GoogleSlide w/ #Movenote. Julian Scott Wilson sur Twitter : "#YCCougarPride @gastoncountyschool #gcsk12 #MusicEd with #Chromebooks #Creating Instr fam #GoogleSlide w/ #Movenote. The #1 Online Resource for Band Directors! Middle School Band: Tips for Effective Rehearsals Mike Pearce Whether you’re just starting out or have many years under your belt as a band director, there are daily rehearsal tips you can add to or use to refine your inventory of techniques for band practice. 1.

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TOOLS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. Since every rehearsal stoppage often translates to behavior problems and requires that you restore order and restart, there are some things you should have on or near your conductor’s stand. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Your effectiveness as a teacher and relative ease in achieving excellence in your band’s performance can be enhanced by streamlining your daily rehearsals through the following techniques: 1. Banddirector.com - The #1 Online Resource for Band Directors! The Band Director as an Effective Servant-Leader. Albert Schweitzer once said, “Of this I am certain: The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”1 Schweitzer seemed to understand that true and long-lasting happiness comes when we serve others.

The Band Director as an Effective Servant-Leader

One of the greatest challenges we face in band programs today is ensuring that every band room has a competent, enthusiastic band director. We need people who see their desire to be a band director as a “calling” – where they demonstrate their love for kids and want to be a part of their students’ development. The effective band director must be a fine, well-trained musician who loves music and has the ability to explain the importance and the complexity of music, and the relationship of music to the human condition. Richard Freed, the distinguished American music critic, annotator, and broadcaster, asked this rhetorical question while delivering a keynote address: “Why is it that our young people get involved with drugs?” Creativity and the Brain: What We Can Learn From Jazz Musicians. Listening to jazz musicians improvise, how the piano player’s chords toy with the sax player’s runs and the standup bass player’s beats, it may seem like their music-making process is simply magic.

Creativity and the Brain: What We Can Learn From Jazz Musicians

But research of jazz musicians’ brain activity as they improvise is helping shed light on the neuroscience behind creativity, and it turns out creating that magic is not as serendipitous a process as we might think. “I started looking at jazz musicians playing the blues as a way to understand how the creative brain emerges from a neuroscience perspective,” said Charles Limb, associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at John’s Hopkins University. Limb, a jazz musician and music lover, and his team designed a plastic keyboard that jazz musicians could both play and hear while they were inside an MRI machine. Limb asked the musicians to play a memorized piece of music, then improvise with another musician in the control room.

Limb captured images of their brains as they played. Why Students Really Quit Their Musical Instrument (and How Parents Can Prevent It) - The Music Parents' Guide. Everything you say is true.

Why Students Really Quit Their Musical Instrument (and How Parents Can Prevent It) - The Music Parents' Guide

Teachers in general and music teachers in particular are under great pressure to spin flax into gold nearly instantly. I think they should all get Nobel prizes. Practice+ Tuner, Metronome, Recorder and More... Practice+ Tuner, Metronome, Recorder and More... on the App Store on iTunes. AudioStretch. AudioStretch on the App Store on iTunes. Description == FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME ==In collaboration with AppsGoneFree, AudioStretch is being offered for free for the weekend of 11-12 October 2014.

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Get it while you can. Change the speed of audio files without changing the pitch. Listen as you drag the waveform. Play at zero speed. Not sure? FEATURES• Simple uncluttered user interface• LiveScrub™ : listen as you drag/hold the waveform• Keyboard/spectrum feature for transcription• Flexible looping feature• Load any song in your music library*• Send time-stretched, pitch-shifted files by email • Open Dropbox files and email attachments• Speed range -2.50x to 2.50x, including zero speed! *Except Fairplay DRM-protected files (i.e. very old, pre-2010 iTunes purchases). How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins. Trumpetjazzid : Speed Note Reading Drill with ... Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.

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Prepare to interact with music in a whole new way with Rhythm Repeat! Follow the sequence of colorful buttons and repeat them in the same order. Once you miss a note – you lose a life, as soon as you lose all lives – the Game is over! Association of Music Parents. Music Advocacy's Top Ten for Parents. Kit.jpg 555×555 pixels. Why an "A" is not enough.