Jeremiah "Dusty" Johnson

Adjudicator

Band Director

Clinician

Composer/Arranger

Musical Pit Performer

Presenter

Rock Band Teacher

Service to the Education and Music Community

Education

BA Music Education 2003

Twin Cities Campus

MA Music Education 2008

PhD Music Education

Did not complete program

(26 credits towards degree)

Band director since 2004

United Church of Christ, Waterloo, Iowa

2005-2007

Music Director, Bell Choir Director,

and Chancel Choir Director

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Price Laboratory School/NU High Cedar Falls, Iowa 2004-2007

5th, 6th, 7th/8th, and High School Bands

MS & HS Jazz Bands, HS Pep Band

5-12 Lessons

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North Cedar High School Stanwood, Iowa 2007-2011

High School Concert Band

HS Jazz, Marching, & Pep Bands

Kirkwood College Music Appreciation

Beginning Band & 9-12 Lessons

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Tipton Middle School, Tipton, Iowa

2012-Present

5th, 6th, and 7th/8th Bands

MS Jazz Band, MS Marching Band

Rock Band

5-8 Lessons

Performing Experience

Playing trumpet or trombone in jazz bands, musicals, community bands, at church, and weddings

Playing electric bass in jazz bands, rock bands, church bands, and musicals

Playing piano in rock bands, at church, and at super fun teacher workshops

Playing snare drum or drum set in rock bands, at church, and with bagpipe players

Playing guitar in jazz bands, rock bands, at church, and because my dogs like it

Special Experiences

Recepient of a shared inagural award for excellence in teaching for SEIBA 2025

Percussion Advisor for the Iowa Ambassadors of Music Tour 2010

Presenter for the NAfME Annual Conference 2012

Drum Major of the Dubuque Colts Drum and Bugle Corps 2000

Rock Band Coach, Keyboard, or Drum Set Instructor at UNI's AmpCamp since 2019

Playing with Dr. Ron Fox, my undergrad trumpet instructor at Luther's Homecoming 2022

104 Adjudication Experiences

14 marching band competitions/festivals

20 jazz band competitions/festivals

16 concert band festivals (2 also had jazz bands there)

37 solo/ensemble festivals

15 honor band audition days

2 chair test days and a variety show

Commissioning and Publishing Experiences

Major Scales with Fingerings for Concert Band InstrumentsThis includes a one octave major scale with fingerings listed below for every band instrument, including mallet percussion. 12 major scales are listed, along with their concert scale transposition and enharmonic equivalent scale. Alternate scale fingerings are used to facilitate correct learning of ...

Advanced Major Scales for Concert Band InstrumentsThis packet is a tool to help band students use the most efficient fingering for playing notes in a major scale sequence at a fast tempo, like one would do in an audition. The major scales cover the accepted full range required for advanced high school music. Each note is notated with a courtesy acc...

Anthems of the Six Armed Forces | J.W. PepperThis is the perfect arrangement to honor active and veteran service members. It includes the verse and refrain for all six armed forces service branches in the proscribed Department of Defense order: Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, with a short introduction before each tune to announce the next branch. The arrangement was written for a third and fourth year band to play at a middle school Veterans Day program, yet sounds mature enough for high school band. The arrangement is officially licensed and includes a history of the service songs. Every section gets an opportunity to play the melody, plus section features give chop breaks for players! Your community will love this at Veterans Day or Memorial Day programs, or any other day of the year! Reference recording by Geneseo Honors Band from Geneseo High School, Geneseo, Illinois, conducted by John Versluis. The parts are three pages long and are recommended to be double sided printed on 11x17 paper. When folded, page 1 is the front cover, page 2 and 3 are on the inside, and page 4 the back is blank.

Bluesin' Around Town | J.W. Pepper<p>This easy blues chart commissioned by Dusty Johnson and the Tipton Iowa Middle School jazz Band, is accessible to young groups and will be great to put together. It's a medium swing that is written with playable riffs. The chart features a tenor saxophone solo which can be ad lib or played as written. Get this chart so you can start bluesin' around!</p>

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Get in touch at jdjohnson06@icloud.com or dusty.johnson@tipton.k12.ia.us

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