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As this issue of School Band and Orchestra celebrates 50 Directors Who Make A Difference, it raises the question, “What makes the difference?”

Citrus Grove was my neighborhood school in Miami, Florida. Remember when you walked to school and carried your books in your hands… with no backpack! It was THAT kind of...

Over the past 16 years, Michael Finn has created a unique and special songwriting course that he teaches at a high school in Los Angeles.

Regular readers of this column may recall that in last December’s SBO issue, the title was “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” (see it at http://it.ly/2D4Svlsl ).

There are many different approaches that percussion teachers use to teach drumstick control. I am going to present a very simplistic approach to teaching this concept.