The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual


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The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual is the definitive guide to the intricate art of directing college and high school marching bands. Supplemented with musical arrangements, warm-up exercises, and over a hundred drill charts, this manual presents both the fundamentals and the advanced techniques that are essential for successful marching band leadership. The materials in this volume cover every stage of musical direction and instruction, from selecting music and choreographing movements to improving student memorization and endurance to the creation of striking visual configurations through uniform and auxiliary units. Now in its third edition, The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect new standards for drill design, charting, and musical arrangement. Offering a fresh approach to the essentials of good marching band design, this comprehensive resource shows both veteran and novice band directors how to prepare students to perform seamless and sophisticated musical formations.




Marching Band Techniques


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This book can be used as an accompanying text for the collegiate marching band techniques course and to help build a successful marching band program at a high school. Topics include everything from developing a program handbook to student leadership and adult staffing, budgets, rehearsal techniques, sample forms, and basic information regarding the development process of a marching band show, as well as basic drill design techniques. It also addresses typical mistakes made by young teachers and offers suggestions on how to avoid/handle those mistakes. Finally, workbook-style activities at the end of each chapter help support and reinforce the material presented. - Back cover.




The System


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Nine Minute Drill


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NINE MINUTE DRILL picks up where its predecessor, FIVE MINUTE DRILL, leaves off with a series of ¿next level¿ exercises for practice pad and mallet keyboard. Take your students through the paces with their technique, rudiments, and ultimately their musicianship. The accompanying CD-ROM contains engaging play-along tracks at a variety of styles and tempos. Set up your pads or mallet instruments, press PLAY¿and away you go! More fun than any metronome alone could ever be, these tracks will engage students in a way that only real musical compositions can.




Five MInute Drill


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Tired of not knowing what to do with your percussionsists while wind players are doing their daily drills of long tones, lip slurs, and articulation studies? Percussionists are often spinning their wheels while waiting to get to the good stuff. Well, this is the good stuff! Now the percussion section can receive their daily dose of essentials and have fun while doing it! FIVE MINUTE DRILL is a series of fundamental exercises for both practice pad and mallet keyboard designed to give young players a guided regimen of the basics in just five minutes a day! Stylized play-along tracks on the included CD accompany the exercises in order to encourage group awareness and listening?not to mention FUN! INSIDE: ? Nearly 30 exercises for drumming and mallet keyboard technique ? Play-along CD containing over 90 individual tracks at a variety of speeds & styles ? Data tracking tools so you can record your progress ? At-a-glance techniques & terminology everyone can benefit from




The Instrumentalist


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Notes From An Accidental Band Geek


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From the author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies comes a middle grade novel hailed by Linda Urban as “A perfect blend of laugh out loud funny and real-world heart.” Elsie Wyatt wants to be an orchestra superstar, like her dad and grandfather. The first step? Get into a super-selective summer music camp. In order to qualify, Elsie must “expand her musical horizons” by joining her high school’s marching band. Not only does this mean wearing a plumed hat and polyester pants, but it also means she can’t play her own instrument, can’t sit down, and can’t seem to say the right thing to anyone…let alone Jake, the cute trumpet player she meets on the first day. Plus, everything she does seems to cause a disaster. Surviving marching band is going to be way harder than Elsie thought. For fans of funny, realistic, every-girl novels like Wendy Mass’s 13 Gifts and Lisa Greenwald’s My Life in Pink & Green. “It has humor, heart, and a touch of romance that will provide ample fodder for booktalks.”—School Library Journal “Marching-band kids everywhere will enjoy this believable celebration of a life-changing, musical rite of passage.”—Kirkus







The Teaching of Instrumental Music


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This book introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles most commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula. This text focuses on the core competencies required for teacher certification in instrumental music. The first section of the book focuses on essential issues for a successful instrumental program: objectives, assessment and evaluation, motivation, administrative tasks, and recruiting and scheduling (including block scheduling). The second section devotes a chapter to each wind instrument plus percussion and strings, and includes troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. The third section focuses on rehearsal techniques from the first day through high school.