Tag: December2020

For over two decades, the December issue of SBO magazine has honored a band director from each state in our ...

All of us who are involved in teaching the trumpet to players of all ages speak so often about using ...

What the #$%@ was that? 2020 will certainly be a memorable year for many things…. not many of them are ...

The superhero description “faster than a speeding bullet” belongs to Superman. Let’s consider that phrase as we figuratively turn our ...

It is hard to believe that we are entering the holiday season and are still engulfed in this pandemic. Currently, ...

Instrumental music looks different this year. When we focus on what we can’t do as compared to years past or ...

If you are reading this in the Northern Hemisphere, then you know that aside from it being the most wonderful ...

A fundamental of clean audio is setting the right level so there are no overloads. It seems like such an ...

Mercy, was the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade without marching bands just a big downer, or what? But I digress…

I recently ran an informal conversation in the Music Educators Creating Online Learning Facebook Group to ask teachers why they ...

Regular readers of this column may recall seeing articles by a similar title in SBO Magazine in the December 2018 ...

The marimba could possibly be the oldest instrument on Earth. The exact year of its origin isn’t known, but it ...