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Date Posted: 18:48:18 04/30/06 Sun
Author: Derek
Subject: Re: Practicing over the summer
In reply to: Sarah 's message, "Practicing over the summer" on 16:48:06 04/26/06 Wed

Here are some options that might be useful:

1) Start a summer band program if you don't have one already established. You might find that most students will want to be involved in this, so it'll take care of itself. Recruiment shouldn't be an issue at all.

2) If you can't start a summer band program, then offer students private lessons during the summer (this would mean a lot of effort on your part, but also a lot of money) Then, towards the end of the summer, schedule a recital and have everybody from the community come and hear their performanes. That could give some students enough incentive to keep playing over the summer.

3) If neither of these ideas work, then the best bet would be to just order a bunch of books with CDs in April and hand them out to students at the end of school (make sure the students understand that the books are school-owned). This way, they'll at least have an opportunity to play something at home if they'd like to. (This wouldn't really work for seniors, since they won't be able to return the books to you next fall.)

4) Finally, if nothing else, give your a studnets a list of all sorts of concerts in your area. If students get a chance to here music more often, chances are they might go home and toot around a little on their horns -- then as time progress, let's hope they'll get hooked on playing their instruments. That's the ultimate goal. Start off with as many possiblities as you can for them to play over the summer, then work with what you can: summer band, private lessons, or something else.

Hope that helps...

Let me know if you guys can think of anything else :)

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[> [> Re: Practicing over the summer -- Dr. O., 08:18:56 05/01/06 Mon [1]

These are all good suggestions. Another one might be to try and locate summer community bands in the area and get students involved in those. When I was in high school and college, I played in 2 or 3 different community bands each summer as a means of keeping myself playing. The community bands (some are quite good, but others, well...) are always happy to have young players come in to bolster their ranks. There are still a lot of bands of this type around.
Dr. O.


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