

The Growing Band Director
Kyle Smith
Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Apr 22, 2024 • 28min
166 Arranging with a Full Band with Jake Sturtevant
Learn about this great process to arrange a piece of music with your full band class! Jake Sturtevant has been doing this project with this ensembles for over a decade and knows how invested students get in the process, the outcome, and how much ownership they take over it!
Project Overview Paperwork
Jakesturtevant.com
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Apr 18, 2024 • 37min
162 Beginning Band Adaptable Series with Mary Cogswell and Ron Stary
Learn from experienced beginning band educator Mary Cogswell, as she teams up with Ron Stary to discuss many aspects of teaching beginning band, including some new repertoire recently put out through Murphy Press for your beginners!
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Apr 15, 2024 • 36min
160 Teaching Beginner Strings
So many band directors are in the position of teaching strings as well, so veteran teacher Dana Saccomano from East Hartford Public Schools shares many of her tips, processes and methods to start string students correctly.
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Apr 11, 2024 • 11min
168 Creating a Meaningful Festival For Students
We all want festivals to be impactful for our students! We want them to leave them with a sense of growth and achievement, but also use them as a learning opportunity to guide the next stage in their development.
There are some simple ways to do this! We hope you find these ideas helpful!
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Apr 8, 2024 • 43min
159 You Can Gain Energy Through Score Study
Knowing the music at a deeper level gives you energy and excitement, which will show in your teaching and transfer to your students. Using four examples we show you some possible ways to include score study in your teaching!
Down a Country Lane - Copland/Patterson (Gr. 2.5)
Cenotaph - Jack Stamp (Gr. 3.5)
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss - David Holsinger (Gr. 3)
American Salute - Morton Gould/Wagner (Gr. 3.5)
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 6min
158 Band Meets Strings Crossover
Kyle sits down with Tiffany and Patrick from the Band Meets Strings Podcast to discuss so many topics around teaching strings as a trained band director, as well as the common aspects of both idioms and some key differences.
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Mar 25, 2024 • 31min
157 Grammy Music Educator 2024 Annie Ray
Annie Ray is the orchestra teacher at Annadale HS in Fairfax, VA. She spends some time with us discussing the Grammy process and experience, as well as many other aspects of being a music educator balancing professional and parental responsibilities.
To gain access to all show notes and audio files please Subscribe to the podcast and consider supporting the show on Patreon - using the button at the top of growingband.com
Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Mar 18, 2024 • 47min
156 Commissioning Music for Beginning Band with Del Hubers and Ron Stary
Ron Stary interviews Del Hubers - a veteran teacher of 39 years who has made it a mission to get more music written for beginning band! Hear his process, philosophies and some of the pieces that have been written recently!
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Mar 11, 2024 • 50min
154 Nicole Piunno
Kyle sits down with composer Nicole Piunno to discuss some of today's current composers, as well as some of her music for all grade levels that are available.
Nicole Piunno - Composer
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Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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Mar 4, 2024 • 57min
153 Parenting Tips for Band Directors and Helping Your Clarinets Over the Break with Christine Wolf
You can be a great band director and a great parent! Learn from an experienced, and very successful junior high band director!
You can also follow this five-step process to help ensure your clarinet players are successful as they navigate the break.
Christine's Make Music Blog
We also discuss some great literature for bands with excellent clarinet sections, and recommendations for balancing parts, reeds, mouthpieces, and so much more!
Christine Wolf is the Director of Bands at Central Davis Junior High, Utah in the Davis School District.
To gain access to all show notes and audio files please Subscribe to the podcast and consider supporting the show on Patreon - using the button at the top of growingband.com
Our mission is to share practical advice and explore topics that will help every band director, no matter your experience level, as well as music education students who are working to join us in the coming years.
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