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Efficient Practicing By Joel Smales Have you ever felt like you’ve hit a brick wall in your practice/performance routine? You know there is more you are capable of, but you just don’t know how to get there? Maybe your practice routi...

Concert Planning Check List

Concert Planning Checklist � 2005 Don Sumwalt, Woodwind & Brasswind The tangible result of the instruction in the music classroom is the concert performance. In the preparation of music for a performance, we often overlook the details involved in...

Celebrate Sousa's 150th!

Celebrate Sousa's 150th! The Stars and Strips are forever at the University of Illinois- at Urbana - Champaign's Sousa Sesquicentennial Celebration going on all November. Some highlights include a concert featuring Sousa's best-loved marches, an ong...

All-State Bands and Contests

The University of North Texas Press proudly announces... Inside John Haynie.s Studio: A Master Teacher.s Lessons on Trumpet and Life is a wonderful collectionof essays on a variety of topics such as embouchure,breathing, tonguing, fingering, musician...

Beyond Their Years: Intonation and the Young Band

Beyond Their Years: Intonation and the Young Band Chip De Stefano Playing in tune is a skill. It must be taught, developed, and polished as our students mature as musicians. Too often, particularly in young bands, good pitch is either left to chanc...