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TITLE: Give Your Ensemble a Daily Diet of Fundamentals
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: July 1, 2022
Curated from The YAMAHA Educator Suite – by Jarrett Lipman – A musician’s daily diet or daily drill provides all the necessary basics for performing on an instrument successfully. While it’s not a perfect formula, at Claudia Taylor Johnson High School, we stick to our daily drill in the same way that we brush our teeth or get dressed for school…
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TITLE: See Beyond Disabilities and Find Opportunities to Excel
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: June 18, 2022
Curated from the Yamaha Educator Suite – by Cody Newman – Our students are only limited by the constraints we place on them, so let’s all choose opportunity and choose to excel! Here’s my story – On a muggy Texas evening in May 2020 during the height of the pandemic, I sat in the Diffee family’s driveway out in the…
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TITLE: 10 Popular Artists We Can’t Wait to Hear from Drum Corps in 2022
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: ARTICLE VIDEO
DATE: June 2, 2022
Curated from Drum Corps International – As the calendar turns to June and corps’ spring training rehearsals commence, excitement is continuing to build around the 2022 Drum Corps International Summer Tour. PURCHASE TICKETS TO A 2022 DCI TOUR EVENT NEAR YOU All across the country, drum corps have begun to reveal information regarding their on-field programming and music selections for…
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TITLE: Case Study: Grassroots Funding Through Social Media and Contests
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: May 13, 2022
Curated from The Yamaha Educator Suite – by Christine Ngeo Katzman – When Heather Taylor became the band director at Lakeshore Elementary School in Rochester, New York, in 2018, she had an $80 annual budget. “That’s literally less than $1 a kid,” says Taylor who teaches about 140 students in 4th and 5th grades out of 420 students overall in grades 3…
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TITLE: Your Four-Tool Recruitment Bundle
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: ARTICLE VIDEO
DATE: March 10, 2022
Time to recruit that new crop of beginners? Depending on your school’s time setup, it could be now, it could be in a few weeks, it could be in a few months. No matter when that is, NOW is the time to make plans. These FOUR posts found at the Nottelmann Blog, linked below, can greatly improve your chances of…
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TITLE: Build a Culture of Excellence
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: Article
DATE: March 3, 2022
Curated from the YAMAHA Educator Suite – by Jarrett Lipman – Students who believe in their ability to perform at a high level are more likely to achieve remarkable things. When students see results as a performer, they develop trust in their instructors. Music educators’ ability to take their students to a level that they may not even see as possible hinges…
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