The following are various projects that I have worked on over the last few years, showing my range as an educator, conductor, and musician:

Marching Band Drill Writing

Military Appreciation Drill.mov

As previously mentioned under the rehearsal footage and directing examples tabs, this is the drill that I wrote in the marching band program Pyware for the Western Thunder Marching Band. This program, The Ultimate Drill Book, was a staple in our program to help maintain efficiency during our daily, 50 minute marching band rehearsals. This skill of using the Pyware system can easily be adapted to make changes to drill to add or remove members for any reasons that occur throughout the marching band season.

Budget Example

Mock Budget/Reasoning Document for Treasure Valley HS

Below and to the left are examples of a sample budget I created for the fictitious "Treasure Valley High School Band and Orchestra Program". This illustrates my ability to balance an annual budget with projected intermediate and long term goals for the program. Although this was created with an actual program in mind, it can easily be adapted to a specific District and/or school.

Mock Budget for Treasure Valley HS Band/Orchestra

Mock Itinerary Example

Marching Band Mock Itenerary

The sample itinerary to the left is for a marching band competition, based off of my own experiences in Texas. It provides important details from lodging; descriptions and times of activities, tasks, locations, etc., that are readily available for students, parents, and administrators to know exactly where we will be and what we will be doing at all times. This can easily be adapted to any type of travel, e.g.. from a local day trip to an extended trip to Disney World.

Bus Trip Example

The Google Sheet to the right is an example of the level of administrative success I have achieved in previous positions. For context, for the 2025 Tournament of Rose's trip, we had a bus take people to Cheyenne, where we flew a charter flight to California. Upon landing, we had to ensure everyone could fit onto 4 busses, as the 5th bus picked up members that flew commercially from across the country. Then once in Pasadena, we switched back to using our five busses that we booked. Each of these can be found by changing tabs in the document below. This level of detail and expectation are highlights of my areas of expertise.

Rose Parade Bus Sheet

Band Handbook Example

In the Google document below, I created an example of what I want to see out of my programs band handbook. This was modeled in reference to Texas policies and guidelines (such as TMEA and UIL) but easily can be adapted to other state guidelines such as IHSAA or IMEA.

Logan D. Handbook

Concert Program Example

Following is a copy of a concert program that I created. Concert programs serve to inform the community of our performances; allow students to take pride in their performance and use their creative outlets; and provide parents/attendees with a keepsake memory. As a band director, I would incorporate similar programs for our concerts, along with digital programs to continue with the current trends of utilizing technology in the wind band world.

Trombone Choir Poster.pdf

Arranging for Wind Band

I arranged this piece originally written for piano by Bela Bartok which illustrates my ability to transcribe music into written form or interpret into a new piece in an effort to make music more accessible to a student. As a student teacher, I have utilized this skill to simplify parts for use in pep bands and to build confidence in students to keep them participating in ensembles. To the right is the PDF of the score I created, and below is the recording of the piece by Symphonic Winds in the Spring of 2022.

Soir A La Campagne (An Evening in the Country) - Full Score.pdf

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Transcribing for Trombone

Mussorgsky, Songs and Dances of Death .pdf

I had the opportunity to transcribe a piece of music for trombone and piano from the original Tenor voice and piano for my senior recital. The PDF to the left shows my draft with additional phrase markings/articulations added as I went along. This skill will enable me to identify pieces that I can transcribe for other instruments in an effort to make music more accessible for all of my future students.

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