Our rehearsal clips will not continue to improve unless several things happen: 1) All band members LEARN their parts. No more wrong notes! No more fumbles! 2) Band members LISTEN…
Read this great story about a piano student … and my reaction to it!: (more…)
Here are the sound clips from last night’s rehearsal.
Please feel free to post your CONSTRUCTIVE comments and share your thoughts. We are not interested in this was good and this was bad (that’s evaluation) … we want OBSERVATION. “When the trumpets played the octave slurs it was smooth, however, their sounds were very forced when they played loud” is more helpful than “trumpets done good.” Just click on the speech bubble above for the comments section.
Sometimes I don’t hear everything that happens in rehearsal because a lot of thoughts are going through my mind (believe it or not). So, these recordings will allow me to listen to our rehearsals and make a list of things that I would like us to improve upon. I invite you (students) to do the same. Your suggestions are ALWAYS welcome! See you on Monday! (more…)
A couple of my students are playing this duet ... called "Shades of Jazz" by Ben Reehl With a little more time (and practice), the following video can be edited…