Sandy Feldstein On Advice for Beginning Band/Orchestra Directors

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14 жыл бұрын

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - There are things they don't teach you in college about being a band director that are important to know; things that go beyond teaching someone to play an instrument. Sandy Feldstein offers excellent advice about soliciting support of other teachers for your program, recruiting kids for your band and retaining them in your program, and very important advice such as "get to know the custodian!" This clip is a must-see for anyone pursuing a career in teaching music.

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@DennisJohnsonDrummer Жыл бұрын

Reaching out to band directors looking for percussion resources- I'm a veteran band director with four decades of experience and a percussion background. I have recently organized and posted most of my materials into resources for band directors on Teachers Pay Teachers under the name All About Percussion. There are so many great resources for middle school and high school directors and students and I am happy to answer any and all questions about the materials. I am here to serve.

@thedeal81 10 жыл бұрын

That's the best and most truthful speech about band teachers I've ever heard!!

@SarahRios-pf6jb 4 күн бұрын

Hey fellow musicians and music educators! I have a question /call out for support-- so I’m now in my nineteenth year of teaching; and my 11th teaching as a licensed certified music teacher. I’m a vocalist. The past few years I’ve spent doing music appreciation and general music in urban public schools with a little bit of choral and vocal music even though I’m a singer first. I just got a full time job as a band director/ guitar instructor/ choir director at a catholic school. (After I left private school I never thought I’d go back; then they started paying way better and I needed a job) in any event… I was blessed to attend a pretty band heavy teacher training program for my masters and license: VanderCook College of Music. So even though I am a singer- I had to take ALL of the instrument families; so I can coach kids on that instrument because I had to go through the idiosyncrocies and ups and downs of putting the instrument together; appeture, embochure; posture etc etc on various instruments. Having said that-- it’s been a long time. And I’ve never actually been THE BAND DIRECTOR. I’ve taught instrumental music to like one or two kids or a bunch of kids doing piano or guitar. Having said that- they’re trying to revitalize this band program. I have some ideas. A lot of it is exactly like choir just also with instruments. But who has tips and resources I could use? Hit me either on here or in my professional email address at saraherios2@gmail.com. Thanks so much. I appreciate all of you very much. What we do is important; very important-- as educators; as musicians as performing arts educators.

@NemoSteamo 6 жыл бұрын

That was so enlightening! I'm a first year band teacher and that helped a great deal! Thank you!

@UkeRebuke 2 жыл бұрын

This is all so true. I struggled to get anywhere with guitar on my own and struggled with the euphonium (part of that was due to second year of beginner being eliminated the year I was about to enter it so I suddenly got thrust into the intermediate/senior group. And then I was just functioning as a rhythm piece playing stuff that was a little above my abilities which is not very thrilling when practicing alone at home. I remember being thrilled when we did the Pirates of the Carribbean theme because I was more than just rhythm there. I could play it unaccompanied for my family and they recognized it. On guitar I remember being 13 or 14 spending hours watching and rewatching a video made by a kid who was probably not much older, drawing guitar diagrams based on what he taught me just to learn the intro to Dance of Death by Iron Maiden. I still remember it but the work to reward ratio was too high and I never learned anything else on guitar. Now in my late 20s I somehow ended up playing ukulele and it was completely different. The simplicity of the chords meant I had learned my first song in an hour. And the availability of chords (I still don't like tabs lol) and tutorials now meant I could learn more and more songs. And they were all songs I would know and enjoy. So it never felt like practice, it was just play. I couldn't find the motivation to pick up my guitar as a kid, as an adult I can't put down my ukulele. Not exaggerating about putting it down, it's bad. We're talking "woops it's morning?" bad

@davidkellogg3068 6 жыл бұрын

This man is amazing

@jasongreek2342 Жыл бұрын

Except... I didn't go to university and get a music education degree. I noticed that the band program was cut at our local school, and my kid is set to start there next year, so I took it upon myself to restart the program from the ground up...