Bandworld Magazine

Year of Graduation - 2010 Current Position - Assistant Professor of Bands at Purdue University Time in current position - Four years in August. What was your background before ABC? I grew up in Woodhaven, Michigan, and earned my Bachelor of Music Education degree from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 2001.  After one year as a graduate assistant for the Purdue University Bands, I...

Year of Graduation - 2003 Current Position - Assistant Professor of Music, Associate Director of Bands and Chair of Music Education at Lawrence University Time in current position - 2nd Year What was your background before ABC? I grew up in Sacramento, California where I fell in love with jazz. Some of my childhood musical highlights include performing with Dizzy Gillespie at the...

A special award of The John Philip Sousa Foundation Kenneth Rogers has been the Band Director at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada since 2007. Prior to this position, he has done it all from an itinerant music teacher to a sessional instructor. He has worked from the middle school to collegiate levels. Rogers has earned his Bachelor in Music; Bachelor in...

A special award of The John Philip Sousa Foundation Chadwick Kamei has been the Director of Bands at Pearl City High School of Pearl City, Hawaii, for the last nine years. At the same school he also serves as the Coordinator for the Music Learning Center. Just to keep busy he has also served as the UH - West Oahu director for...

It was my great pleasure to team-teach the jazz session at the 2015 American Band College with David Caffey from the University of Northern Colorado. One of the topics I covered was teaching improvisation to developing musicians.There are many, fine improvisation methods for intermediate and advanced improvisers, but materials for beginning improvisers are woefully scarce. Over the course of thirty...

Multiple articulation on single reed instruments, although done by virtuoso performers for many years, has only lately been considered a necessity of advanced clarinet performance. The concept is easily learned, and aside from obvious articulation benefits, leads to good basic concepts such as throat relaxation and tongue placement on the reed and in the mouth. I’ve used this method...

“Everything she’s saying could be applied to teaching music!” That was my thought this summer when I read Brene Brown’s insightful and inspiring book "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead." Through her study of connections, Dr. Brown has learned that “vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center,...

Download a full score and parts for all 7 keysThis is a complete set of parts for all instruments (300+ PDF pages) The Purpose of this Book This book was created in order to be used as a source for daily warm-ups. As a middle school band director, I believe that the warm-up is the most important part of the class....

I had just completed one of the Attitude Concepts for Today workshops and had been dropped off at my hotel; it was one of those rare days when I could grab a few hours of reading. So, off to the pool with book in hand and much anticipation about digging into this material which awaited me. The weather was...

Bandworld Magazine has been given permission by GIA Publications to use these excerpts as part of the major online presentation (Novos Radio/TV #24) on Col. Arnald D. Gabriel. The complete DVD is available online through GIA.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VIRbnM1k0&feature=youtu.be