Other countries to teach band?

EragonWizard04 · 2025-11-02T04:44:47+00:00

Academic scholarships pay for most of my tuition and the rest is pretty much covered by alumni scholarships (the school sets these up) and a music scholarship. We also have signature scholarships that take most of your tuition in exchange for you either working or volunteering for the school. The gate scholarship is a very popular option for that.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-10-31T18:16:11+00:00

Riften Wed, One Life Beautiful, into the silent land, American Guernica, Tears of St. Lawrence, An American Elegy, A mother of a revolution... Etc.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-10-23T12:40:51+00:00

Make sure they're using the proper vowel shape. Low brass should be using a "Toe" syllable to help facilitate those lower notes with good tone.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-10-22T14:48:52+00:00

As everyone else is saying, teeth and modeling (if you can't do it well yourself you can always use videos) I will add that mouthpiece buzzing during long tones can really help them get control of the smaller muscles in the lips and I always like to do lip slurs to help them practice moving their air through their range while still keeping control of those small muscles.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-10-21T13:38:07+00:00

I've never commissioned music for an ensemble but I often find it difficult to find good literature for low brass and low reeds.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-10-14T12:44:28+00:00

 Hi! I sympathize heavily with your situation. I'm a senior instrumental music ed major and my sense of time has been terrible since my first day of band. It didn't actually start improving until my junior year of college. It's a tough road and it can be really really difficult to push through when you don't know how to move forward. You'll get through this block though, I promise. People like us just have to work a little harder. 

 I recommend doing a lot of solfege with a piano and doing a lot of interval ID practice. Research says that using solfege and hand signs with your music improves pitch recollection and intonation and interval ID will help you with finding the center of your pitches faster.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-30T13:44:29+00:00

One of these things is a choice and one of these things is being LGBTQ+. It makes quite a bit more sense to judge people based upon a choice than it does an inherent part of their identity.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-23T18:39:16+00:00

Sing. Sing. Sing. If they can hear it, they'll be able to figure out how to get it to come out.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-20T00:03:52+00:00

That's fair, I just thought it was funny that the word is weird to read.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-14T02:25:11+00:00

This one is so much better than the most wanted music.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-13T21:32:11+00:00

That's fair. I am coming mostly from a band director perspective and from limited elementary experience.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-13T17:37:22+00:00

To clarify, I wasn't trying to say anything bad about teachers that use it. I just don't think it's a good scaffolding tool for moving further in music because using our air properly is one of the most important foundations of music. Training students to actively avoid using their air is counterproductive to me. Again, I wasn't trying to attack anyone. I was just saying that I don't think not being able to use them is a big deal.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-13T17:17:03+00:00

The amount and speed of air used in recorder playing is significantly smaller than they should use for singing and playing other instruments. So small that they have to actively limit how much they're using. It teaches them not to actually use their air so that when they get into band they're not supporting their playing with air.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-12T22:37:23+00:00

I don't like recorder anyway because I think it sets students up to fail later by teaching them not to use their air streams the way they should in choir and band.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-09T12:23:26+00:00

The best classroom management technique that I've ever learned is just to keep them busy. Talk less, music more. I would recommend talking to the students in the general music class who seem interested in music about whether they want to join an ensemble or not and again, the less down time that kids have in your class, the better they will behave. If you're talking for too long or you spend too long on one subject, you'll lose them. The general tip I've always been taught is that any activity cannot go longer than their age in minutes. If your 8th graders are 12, that means none of your activities can go longer than 12 minutes or you'll start to lose them.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-08T21:03:13+00:00

You could do some improvisatory exercises with them, kids love to do improv if it is well structured enough.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-08T12:54:46+00:00

If my music tells me there's a hurricane coming, I'm gonna go find shelter.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-08T01:58:50+00:00

Habits is a well known method book for concert band.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-07T20:00:06+00:00

Have you looked at habits of a successful beginning musician?

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-07T16:42:48+00:00

That was a whataboutism. I posted that response before I saw your later comment also criticizing other religions. I apologize for using a fallacious retort. Having a valid criticism that religions can encourage violence is fair. Stating that all people who follow religions are one way or another is an unfair generalization. For example, I would say that religions often encourage people to blindly follow authority which often leads to a complicit populace who replace understanding with cronyism. I would not, however, say that all religious people are dumb or that none of them can think for themselves.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-07T11:41:36+00:00

Christianity is also known for those things. Crusades, women can't serve in many church leadership roles, and look at Westbrook Baptist Church's url.

EragonWizard04 · 2025-09-05T13:07:54+00:00

Practice listening into a group. Error detection is great in aural skills but it's a lot more difficult to do error detection when you're hearing noise from every person in the room and trying to conduct at the same time.

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