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I always encourage my students to be proficient in both the Stevens Grip and the Burton Grip. It’s a misconception that one grip is better than the other. They both have...

When you imagine what a modern band classroom looks like, you picture a music-making space where students have a hands-on musical experience. In recent years, all educators have been encouraged...

Another homerun!  In the April 2021 issue of SBO magazine I reviewed Richard Floyd’s first book, The Artistry of Teaching and Making Music, sboplus.net/colonels-book-club-edition-6/.   His latest book is The...

In part one, you learned to assess your student’s natural color and shape of sound.  In part two, we align their abilities to a mouthpiece/head joint that matches their instrument....

The old saying, “The only constant in life is change” is swinging into action with SBO under my new ownership, mostly a shuffling of a few things. First, we adjusted the timing of...