marching tenors playing area

31Aug08

My cousin is in high school, plays on the drumline. He’s pretty good, considering he took drum set lessons since he was 8 and matched it with his natural talent. Granted, tennis is more his bag, but he likes marching band, so how bad can it all be? Anyway, he just started on the tenor [...]

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Tags: band, Bill Bachman, marching band, music education, percussion, quads, stroke, tenors, vic firth

down press up

27Aug08

Welcome to Down Press Up, a music educator’s resource and conversation piece. My name is Derek, and I’m a second-year band director in Texas. My goal here is to provide information about teaching band, as well as giving anecdotal commentary on my day to day in the band hall. Let’s get this started with an [...]

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Tags: down press up, eastman counting system, foot tap, music education, subdivision