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10 Lessons Your Child Will Learn In Marching Band

10 Lessons Your Child Will Learn in Marching Band

Marching band is more than just a school activity – it’s an adventure where your child learns a different language and new skills that will last them a lifetime. Not only does marching band exercise the mind and body, but also it encourages friendships, cultivates creativity and provides students with a unique opportunity to grow […]

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How Private Music Lessons Help Students in Marching Band Succeed

From instilling a sense of pride and community to delivering a host of cognitive benefits, marching band is phenomenal for kids. Marching bands do a great deal to nurture a student’s creativity, confidence, and musical ability, and working with a private music instructor helps to solidify and enhance everything that kids learn in their programs […]

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Take Your Band’s Performance to the Next Level by Upgrading Your Marching Accessories

As much as we’d like to think that an amazing band performance is exclusively associated with a strong musical showing, there’s actually a myriad of non-musical factors linked with a band’s greatness. Similar to what happens in the backstage of a theater, the excellent band audiences see and hear performing on the field is only […]

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Musicians: Here’s How to Prepare for Concert Season

As the gloomy wintry days give way to longer days of bright sunlight, musicians across the country are hard at work preparing for concert season. For musicians, spring is an important time–its the beginning of concert season! So give your muscles a good stretch to shake off the winter slumber, and get ready for concert […]

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How to Help Keep Music Programs in Schools

  Did you know that the annual cost for a comprehensive K-12 music education program is only about $187 per student? If it’s so cost-effective, why are music programs the first to be cut when funds are low? A study, funded by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), shows that it’s fairly economical to […]

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Back to School, Back to Marching Band

Back to School, Back to Marching Band

Hate it or love it, the first day of school is right around the corner. And, if you’re a proud member of your school’s marching band, so is the marching band season. Whether you’re dreading band camps and after school practices in the hot sunshine or football game performances and never ending parades, getting back […]

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Five Ways Marching Band Can Prepare You For College

The beginning of college is a very interesting experience, and many students aren’t prepared for a brand new set of responsibilities. It’s a big step up from high school: you’ll need to completely shift your learning style, learn how to be on time without your parents waking you up in the morning, and learn how […]

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2016 Music Educator of the Year Award

Announcing the 2016 Music Educator of the Year: Amy Delorge!

In 2015, Music & Arts launched the Music Educator of the Year Award- an honor that recognizes a special music educator for his or her  outstanding achievement in music education. From kindergarten teachers to college professors and everyone in between, anyone who has been teaching music full-time in the United States for at least five […]

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Why Your Teen Should Join Marching Band

Preparing Your Band for a Parade

What do New Year’s Day in Pasadena, Thanksgiving Day in New York, and summer days at Disneyland all have in common? Parades! While millions of people around the country have the day off from work or school, thousands of band members are working harder than ever before. If asked, most marching band members admit that […]

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“Help! I’m a trumpet instructor trying to teach the saxophone!”

“Help! I’m a trumpet instructor trying to teach the saxophone!”

You’ve been teaching Band for a while, and can’t seem to figure out why your saxophone students continually squeak when they articulate.  Why is it so difficult for my saxophone students to play a “D” on Alto or a “G” on tenor cleanly?  You also notice that your saxophone students play so loud and can’t […]

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