After Sectionals
Summary: Welcome to After Sectionals, the podcast about all things band recorded when it's fresh on our minds. We come to you from the Stiles MS band hall - home of chickens and lost tuners. Join our staff (Darcy Potter Williams, Jenna Yee, and Alex Ortega) as we talk band pedagogy, talk smack, and everything in between right after sectionals.
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This shortie gives ideas for verbalizing clarinet fingerings with your beginners. If they can say it, they can play it!
Having a student teacher on campus brings to mind all of the lessons a new teacher still has to learn, lessons that most often can only be learned from making their own mistakes. As the three of us talked, classroom management and injecting your specific personality into your teaching style were the major themes. Finding […]
On March 9th and 10th, Alex and Jenna’s respective bands went to UIL Concert and Sightreading Contest. Both bands did a fabulous job. Alex’s band played “Forward March”, “Storm Mountain Jubilee”, and “Phantom Ship.” Jenna’s performed “Alamo March”, “Broken Bow”, and “Moscow, 1941.” Sitting in our office decompressing, Jenna and Alex had many thoughts on […]
After our TMEA rhythm clinic, a lot of people asked us if we had special counting charts for teaching cut time, and the answer is no. A few years ago we started introducing the concept of cut time after learning how to play #175 (Egyptian Dance) in Essential Elements. We learn #175 at “normal tempo” […]
This week is UIL week for non-varsity bands in Region 26. Alex and Jenna have 2 and 3 rehearsals left respectively before performing, and deciding how to best use that time is sometimes not the easiest decision. Both are pushing tempo, tempo, tempo with a side of sightreading. Jenna’s band in particular is very young, […]
Every week we have Chair Test Tuesday. I feel like weekly chair tests are positive as it forces the kids to get lots of practice getting nervous in front of each other while simultaneously taking some of the stress away from the potential for a bad playing test… if they happen every week, redemption comes […]
Amongst the flurry of feedback we got from our TMEA rhythm clinic was an email from a young teacher asking how I kept control of my classes when I teach with such high energy. The three of us have wildly contrasting personalities and teacher personas, so it is logical that we all handle our classes […]
A podcast about band? Super nerdy… Several weeks ago it occurred to me how lucky I am to be surrounded every day by my BBFFs (best band friends & family) – our band staff, lesson teachers, high school directors, etc – and that some of our best practices come from bouncing ideas off one another […]
