Eliminating Vocal Mistakes bySBO Staff January 23, 2009 0 Download PDF of article to view 4 examples!Identify whether the melody, the rhythm, your intonation, or the lyrics themselves are...
Simple Strategies for More Productive Rehearsals byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 When it comes to rehearsal techniques, there are as many styles as there are teachers. Success in the band room...
Teaching Four-Mallet Marimba Technique: A Sequential Approach to Repertoire byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 Although evidence exists of four-mallet playing in Asia as early as the 16th Century, on Western mallet instruments it is...
Score Preparation for the Young Band Director byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 How prepared do you expect your students to be at concert time? That's exactly how prepared you need to be...
Multicultural Music: Broadening Students’ Musical Horizons byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 By Dawn AllcotIn a recent survey conducted by MENC, the National Association for Music Education, 95 percent of 364 music...
Surviving the Percussion Section byMike Lawson October 21, 2006 0 A Drummer’s Thoughts: The sun glints through the band room windows. Spring has finally arrived and what I would give...
Report: Tuning Schemes for the Modern Percussion Ensemble byMike Lawson October 21, 2006 0 In the last 20 years, there has been a renaissance in the role played by the symphonic and marching percussion...
Percussion Section Management byMike Lawson October 21, 2006 0 Your percussionists probably represent the best-organized and best-behaved sections in your band, right?No? How odd, seeing as they are far...
Self-Adjudiction byMike Lawson October 21, 2006 0 Does judging your own band strike you as a silly notion, or could it actually serve a purpose? Try these...
Trumpet Techniques byMike Lawson December 1, 2003 0 It is fall in Texas. On football fields across the state, hundreds of young athletes are struggling to deliver a...
How to Build a Percussion Ensemble byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 Involving your school percussionists in band and orchestra can sometimes be a difficult task. Certainly there is a great deal...
Woodwind Doubling byMike Lawson October 1, 2003 0 It’s the end of June and your first-chair clarinet wants to sign out a saxophone for the summer. Two thoughts...