57 Videos

• Recruitment - 30 min feature

• Making Virtual Ensembles

• Interactive Scores! - Scores that instantly play music back from any measure using your phone!

• Giving a Trumpet a Bath

• Saxophone Maintenance

• Day One of Beginner Band - Classroom procedures, classroom management at 17:00 mark

• Instrument Tryouts - Full, unedited 45 minute instrument fitting

• Curriculum Video - 30 min long, one of the most popular

• Clarinet Tonguing

• Beginner Band Ensemble Tone Quality

• Sight Reading a Grade .5 - What the kids need to master, and how to teach it

• Beginner Band first sight reading attempt - after meeting for one month (Recorded on Halloween)

• Adobe Spark - for making digital concert programs

• Practice With a Purpose - summer practice incentive

• Sound Beginnings Introductory Video

• Band Games

• Organizational Tips

Three Part Series on Teaching Rhythm

• Part 1 - The theoretical explanation of the process

• Part 2 - Classroom demonstration

• Part 3 - David Newell's book "The Simple Rhythmatician"

• Bonus: Teaching 6/8 fluency in 20 min with minimal talking - this was a college project

• Featured Rhythm Slides (PC)

Computer Program

• Tracking Booklet Computer Demo

• Tracking Video

Band Camp Videos (First few lessons by instrument) - Actual footage of first lessons

• Flute: 1 / 2 / 3

• Clarinet: 1 / 2 / 3

• Saxophone: 1 / 2 / 3

Band Camp Teacher Videos (A Guide to the first five lessons by instrument)

• Flute

• Clarinet

• Trumpet - mistake at 6:00 mark - that was a high C, not a G

• Trombone

• Baritone

Band Camp Parent Videos

• Flute 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

• Clarinet: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

• Saxophone: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

The "Rank System" and RCMS

• Rank System Explanation

• The Schedule at RCMS

• RCMS Band Program Overview - one of my first videos before I learned about camera positioning :)

• RCMS Band Faq (2018-2019) for parents/students

• RCMS Band Faq (2019-2020) for parents/students