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Your Profile

by 28. October 2010 08:54

What does my profile look like?

Your profile is like your online resume.  This is what is used to market you to positions that you apply to using our service.  We use this to create a warm handshake between you and the administrator that has opened the job with us.  Make sure to inclued your resume, a complete bio, and references to be called.

Educator Workshop Consulting Platform

by 28. October 2010 04:43

What is the Workshop?  The Workshop is a an interactive business tool used by top educators to provide their services using web technologies powered by MyBandStaff.com.  Take look at it from a conceptual stanpoint.  I plan on building this as a separate site. Please excuse the rough examaples. Some things have changed.  We don't call everyone judges anymore.  We call them consultants.  What questions do you have?

 

 

 

 

Celebrating Band in the Modern Day

by 29. June 2010 22:16

I tell you, band is just like football and just as American as apple pie.  I can remember a time when Drum Corps was not being shown at the movie theatre.  There was also a time when guard was just the flag girls behind the band.  Now there is a commercial using color guard to show the benefits of a product called Guardasil.  Images of our activity now reaches the Grammy's showcasing drumlines across the stage.  Why is this taking place now?  What is different about our social and cultural norm that is different today than it was yesterday?

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Color Guard | Drum | Drum Corps

Drumline Basics

by 12. May 2009 07:47



Eight on a hand - This is exercise is eight strokes on each hand played from slow to fast tempos. This is also played with different stick levels and heights to warm up the wrists.  Tenors and Basses will play varying in order to go through the different pitches and space and distance the hand must travel to play them.  And different techniques around the drum.

Double Beats - This exercise is a serious of two  notes in a sequence to develops the performers double stroke ability.  The double stroke is performed on one hand. This is one bar of 4/4 on one hand then on the other.

Roll Exercise -   A roll is a serious of double strokes from hand to hand in a particular meter.  The stoke sounds are very close together producing a sound similar to that of a helicopter or machine gun.

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Drum

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