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The Growing Band Director Kyle Smith
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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183 Improving Your Program
An end of the school year sit down brings out things that we feel we did well this year, things that are planned for next year, and adjustments we have made for the modern student this year.
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173 Grade 1-3 Jazz Music of Substance with Julius Tolentino
Julius Tolentino (JTolemusic.com) joins the show to give examples of historical jazz music that is written for less experienced jazz musicians.
Score and sound are provided.
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172 Programming Substance for Festivals with Julius Tolentino
Julius Tolentino joins the show to discuss programming music of substance for a means of developing your jazz musicians in a way that will foster growth, and understanding of the rich history of Jazz
JTolemusic.com
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171 Setting Up Your Beginners with Krystle Smith
Learn some steps that you can take to help your beginning band be more successful - better balanced - have less instrument switching - happier band parents and more student success!
Krystle Smith has been the Director of Bands at Westbrook Middle School since 2006.
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180 The Music of Pierre LaPlante
Listen to some of the best pieces written by one of the quintessential composers for band - Pierre LaPlante.
Pieces featured are;
The Red River Valley, Prospect, Minka's Sleigh Ride, American Riversongs, All Ye Young Sailors, A Walk in the Morning Sun, In the Forest of the King and Prairie Songs.
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169 Instrument Repair for Band Directors with Andre Yanniello
https://youtu.be/ahsnn4nYPIA
Experienced instrument repairman Andre Yanniello has repaired instruments throughout the world and now owns a shop in Texas where he dedicates some of his time to helping band directors become better at instrument repair. The owner of Instrument Repair School, Andre is an advocate of band directors learning to do many of their own simple repairs to save money and time for their program.
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Follow the show:
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On Youtube The Growing Band Director
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