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TITLE: Teaching Music Online: How to Engage Students Through Your Virtual Classroom
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: April 6, 2020
Most music educators are now faced with online teaching. Whether you’re a pro at it or just getting started, here’s a clearing-house on ideas, sources, and tips. Curated from JW Pepper’s music education blog – In this challenging time, the music education community has been doing what it does best: working together to keep students engaged in deeply meaningful choral,…
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TITLE: Resources to Inspire Music Making, Learning and Teaching – from The NAMM Foundation
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Videos
DATE: April 2, 2020
Curated from the NAMM Foundation – All of us at The NAMM Foundation express our concern and support for everyone that is experiencing the realities of the current global health crisis. Teaching and learning music can continue and even thrive through the remarkable tools, resources and people that are engaging in music online. Provided resources have been created by The…
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TITLE: Nicole Newman: On Using Yoga to Develop Sustained Focused Attention, and Practice Getting into the Zone
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast and Article
DATE: April 1, 2020
Curated from The Bulletproof Musician – with Nicole Newman – You’ve probably seen some articles in the last few years about how bad sitting in a chair is for you (unless you’re sitting in the Hawaii Chair of course, in which case I guess you’re ok?). But whether it’s teaching from a piano bench (or in front of your laptop)…
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TITLE: Fact or Myth: Does Thinking “Don’t Miss” Really Make Us More Likely to Mess Up?
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT:
DATE: March 3, 2020
Curated from BULLETPROOFMUSICIAN – By Noa Kageyama, Ph.D. – It was March 15, 2017, and the San Antonio Spurs were trying to pull out a close win over the Portland Trailblazers. With 2.5 seconds left in the game, a Portland foul put Manu Ginobli at the free throw line. Trailing 105-108, the plan was to make the first free throw,…
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TITLE: Keyboard Basics in Band Class (or ANY Ensemble Class)
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: Article
DATE: March 2, 2020
Here’s a quick, easy tip to implement – curated from Band Directors Talk Shop – Unlike piano, wind instruments (or strings) do not provide a visual representation of music. By teaching students the basics of the keyboard, they can picture theory concepts in their heads. Showing them how a keyboard works specifically helps them with understanding: Interval Sharps Flats Enharmonic…
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TITLE: Music Ed Mentor Podcast #67: Copyright
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: March 2, 2020
Curated from Smartmusic’s Music Educator Blog – by Elisa Janson Jones – This episode is all about copyright. As we all know, you can do anything you want with music you create, but in this episode we’ll give you some very much needed clarity about what you can and cannot do with music you didn’t create. Copyright has been such…
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TITLE: How To Use Canva To Create Beautiful Teaching Resources
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: March 2, 2020
Curated from Midnight Music – by Katie Wardrobe – In this episode of the Music Tech Teacher Podcast, we’re talking about Canva, the online graphic design tool, and how to use it to create beautiful teaching resources for your classroom. Check out Nottelmann Music’s exclusive interview podcast with Katie Wardrobe as she makes the implementation music education technology easy to…
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TITLE: The Percussionist’s Etiquette
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT:
DATE: February 27, 2020
Curated from Band Directors Talk Shop – by Rick Astorga – Even the best behaved percussion students might succumb having their attention strained as most of the instruction from the podium might be directed towards their wind counterparts. Sometimes, percussion students have trouble fully understanding their purpose in the ensemble and in the rehearsal. Before you begin your “concert season,”…
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TITLE: Dear Future Music Educators
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 27, 2020
Curated from Band Directors Talk Shop – by Nathan Beeler – Teachers, make sure you share this one with those teaching-bound music ed students! Dear Future Music Educators, First of all, thank you for thinking of this amazing profession as a way to spend your life. I say spend because, hey, we are only given so many days here, and…
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TITLE: What I Learned as a First Year Band Parent
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 25, 2020
Here’s advice for new high school band parents, an account of a band parent looking back over that first year. With the school year coming to an end, I find myself taking a step back and reflecting on what I learned as a first-year band parent. Having no experience with high school band prior to this, I was basically a…
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TITLE: No-Fail Beginning Band Retention Activities
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 24, 2020
Curated from Smartmusic’s Music Educator Blog – by Marcia Neel – Nothing is more important to the success of our music programs than retaining the students who are already enrolled – particularly the beginners. We have to teach the beginners as if they have a scheduled performance at Carnegie Hall. In my previous post, I shared the S.M.A.R.T. approach to…
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TITLE: 10 Types of Music Majors Explained – Career Tracks
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 18, 2020
How many of your college-bound music students have a clear understanding of the possible career tracks are available? Here are 10 to share – curated from The NAMM Foundation – In this article you’ll discover career possibilities, hear from students currently in music programs and get inspired to pursue your academic goals. You’ll also see career end goals for each…
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TITLE: THE WHY OF IT ALL – Nottelmann Blog Post #200!
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 18, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Dr. Tim Lautzenhauser – Our 200th Post! Short but sweet, Dr. Tim weighs in with this reminder of why we do what we do. Have you ever stopped to think WHY we do what we do? WHY do we dedicate our time, our intellectual energies, our creative talents…ultimately OUR LIVES to the world of band directing? What…
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TITLE: Tonettes, Song Flutes, Flutophones, and Precorders
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 15, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Howard Fosdick – An article on cheap plastic flutes? Surely I jest! Actually, no. There are a whole host of reasons to familiarize yourself with these instruments — even if you never play them. Perhaps the biggest one is simply that they’ve introduced tens of millions of American schoolchildren to music. You probably remember tooting…
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TITLE: Conducting Matters! Simple Steps to More Meaningful Expression
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 14, 2020
Curated from BandWorld – by Paula Crider – Ensemble conductors, read these inspirational thoughts from a legendary conductor on how to improve your ensemble’s expression through conducting. Doubtless this will find dedicated teachers totally immersed in the challenges of another school year. I hope all will agree that we owe it to our art to constantly strive to improve our…
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TITLE: Belting 101: How to Help Your Students Use Their Full Voice
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: February 13, 2020
Curated from JW Pepper’s CUED IN – by Erin Guinup – When I was an undergrad, I was told that belting would ruin my voice. I shunned the music I loved and focused solely on building my voice for opera. At that time, most of the voice educator community scorned contemporary commercial music, and few people were teaching it or…
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TITLE: Flipping The Script: NAMM Member and Music Education Advocate John Mlynczak Interviews
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: February 6, 2020
Curated from The Namm Foundation – A special “Flipping the Script” episode recorded LIVE at The 2020 NAMM Show features John Mlynczak interviewing Mary Luehrsen, Executive Director of The NAMM Foundation. The usual host of Talking Up Music Education, Luehrsen shares strategies for taking passion-to-action, the mosaic of music ed, and counting your blessings. John Mlynczak has an extensive range of…
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TITLE: Five-Time Grammy Winner Victor Wooten on Music Education – Caught at the 2020 NAMM Show
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: February 6, 2020
Curated from the NAMM Foundation – In this podcast, you’ll hear five-time Grammy winner Victor Wooten interviewed at the NAMM Conference 2020 in Anaheim. Listen as his passion and advocacy for teaching music comes through as he describes the journey that every person can take to make music. Voted one of the top 10 bass players all time by Rolling…
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TITLE: End the Practice Battle at Home
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: ARTICLE VIDEO
DATE: February 5, 2020
A MESSAGE FOR PARENTS – Having trouble getting your child to practice their instrument at home? You’re not alone! Super-Mom and Resonate Music teacher extraordinaire, Stephanie Nhan, shares 5 easy steps to help end the practice battle at home. Getting your kids to practice their instrument at home can be tough. It can be a constant battle trying to convince…
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TITLE: 20 Mistakes Teachers Make When They De-clutter Their Classroom
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: January 29, 2020
Curated from the Clutter-Free Classroom – by Jodi Durgen – This article contains tips for any classroom. Do music teachers ever need de-cluttering? Does your room need it? Read on… Even with the best intentions, some people aren’t able to attain or maintain a clutter-free classroom because of simple mistakes they don’t even know they are making! These simple mistakes…
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TITLE: Editor’s Choice – 10 Concert Band Pieces You May Have Missed – Grade 2/Easy
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: Article with Audio Recording
DATE: January 8, 2020
By Ray Benton, Technology and Media Specialist, Nottelmann Music Co. Ray, who serves as editor for The Nottelmann Blog at Music Educators Corner, has 32 years of experience teaching band in the St. Louis area. Most of these picks were performed while directing his successful band program at Rockwood South Middle School. What a challenge we have in finding quality,…
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TITLE: Literature Selection for Concert Band by Joe Pappas
SOURCE: Nottelmann Music
FORMAT: Article
DATE: January 7, 2020
This important article is from Nottelmann Music clinician Joe Pappas. Music Educators, do you include these key considerations when you select music for your concert band? The success of your program, performance, or rating at a festival or contest can be a result of selecting the right music. There are several factors to consider when making the selection. These factors…
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TITLE: “I’m Quitting Band!” Why Students Leave, and What You Can Do
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: January 7, 2020
Curated from Smartmusic’s The Music Educator Blog – by Wendy Barden – “I’m quitting band!” is a phrase no director wants to hear. In spite of all the great things happening in a band program, you will still hear it from time to time. Today we’ll look at what reasons students give for quitting band, and then share some thought-provoking…
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TITLE: Editor’s Choice – 10 Concert Band Pieces You May Have Missed – Grade 3/Medium Easy
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: Article with Audio Recording
DATE: January 6, 2020
By Ray Benton, Technology and Media Specialist, Nottelmann Music Co. Ray, who serves as editor for The Nottelmann Blog at Music Educators Corner, has 32 years of experience teaching band in the St. Louis area. These picks were performed while directing his successful band program at Rockwood South Middle School. What music educator doesn’t like to share? I certainly do! …
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