NEBDI 2011

Jeff King - Getting Your Students to Practice

• Mr. King believes that the best way to get students to practice is to set clear objectives with a definite timeline for those objectives
  
  • Instrument checks (reeds, cleanliness, functionability, name tag, pencil, other supplies)
    
  • Notebook check
  • Parent sign-off (Students & parents BOTH must be made aware of the objectives & deadlines)
  • scales/rudiments
  • solo
  • concert pieces
  • these objective are laid out in 6-week syllabus, basically
    
• Rhythmic Values page has easy to difficult rhythms (pg37)
  
• "How to Practice" informative sheet for parents (pg39)
• The Duncanville Band has a very cool little logo - could NCUHS get one??
• The "Weekly Rehearsal Planner" (from "Setting Rehearsal Priorities" booklet, pg26) could be very useful, with minor adjustments, and could be used as lesson plans for Band.
• FOUNDATIONS FOR SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
  
  • The fingering chart is extended, which is great for HS
  • "Concert F around the Band" (pass around F, or 5ths, etc)
    
  • Articulation exercises - tenuto, "lifted", staccatto
  • Long tones - LOTS of long tones
    
    • brasses should do some with only mouthpieces
    • mix up the exercises
  • Warm-ups are great instrument-specific exercises
  • Scales & tuning exercises, too
    

Robert Duke - Beautiful

Rik Pfenninger - New Concepts in Linear Improvisation

• www.rpimprov.com
• You only need FOUR SCALES to improvise
• The Jazz Theory Book
• Band in a Box
• REAL BOOK, Vol.6

Kevin Sedatole, MI State
Conducting Using the Laban Technique & Choosing Quality Literature

• Based on work of Rudolph Laban