Every educator using new SmartMusic now has access to the Sight Reading Builder. With it they can quickly create an infinite number of sight-reading exercises that are customized for their students.
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Improving Brass Tone Production
As the school year is now in full swing, let’s turn our thoughts to brass tone production. No doubt, your students are all playing a lot right now and are probably working the muscles more than ever before.
Improve Your Ensemble Through Listening
What if I were to tell you there is a secret that can help students improve intonation, tone, blend, balance, and more?
Assessing Student Progress in Sight Reading
I love helping my students grow into smart, hard-working, and self-sufficient musicians. Part of this means torturing them with sight-reading exercises every time I see them.
How Can I Get My Students to Sight Sing?
There are many well-known benefits of encouraging singing in the instrumental classroom. It can improve intonation and help students develop their listening skills.
Free Ebook: Rethinking Your Warm Up
Opinions differ as to how to best start rehearsals.
One leading educator thinks we should strike “warm up” from our vocabularies.
A Mindful, Community-Building Choir Warm Up
For music educators and choir directors, the warm-up can become a stale part of the rehearsal. When you take a fresh look at it, it can become a time for excitement, community building, and music reading.
Blues-Based Warm Ups for the Jazz Ensemble
Blues represent a great way to warm up any jazz band. In addition to providing the foundation that jazz, rock, and rhythm and blues are built on, the blues progression is simple enough for beginners to explore.
Searching for a Unicorn: Balance and Blend in Middle School Band
When I was describing the content of this article to a friend, she inadvertently suggested the title in her response; “Balance and blend for middle schoolers?