by Jeff | Nov 1, 2025 | Articles, Band Director, Brass Players, Free Resource, Percussionists
Improving Sight-Reading Skills – Handout and poster. Find your downloads below. Here’s a comprehensive list of tips and strategies to improve sight-reading skills. These cover the mental, physical, and musical aspects of reading music accurately and expressively...
by Jeff | Sep 10, 2025 | Articles, Band Director, Free Resource
Breaking In & Maintaining Reeds Find your downloads below. This handout should be in all your woodwinds music folder, especially singe reed players. Knowing how to extend the life of their reeds makes for better music but will also save them a lot of money over...
by Jeff | Sep 3, 2025 | Articles, Band Director, Brass Players, Percussionists
Find your download below. How to Practice Below find links to several downloads to my ‘How to Practice’ materials. The main sheets are reprints of page 33 of the Band Builder books. Feel free to download and use as needed. Hope they help kids to understand...
by Jeff | Aug 19, 2024 | Articles
Copy, paste, and customize/edit this marching band handbook template as needed to suit your situation. Hope this helps – I refined this over many seasons. ———————————-pg (cover page) (Insert band...
by Jeff | Oct 12, 2023 | Articles
These are examples of Drum Major / Guard Captain Interview Questions I’ve used in the past as part of the interview process for student leaders. Feel free to copy and paste so you can customize for your situation. I have used this in face-to-face interviews,...
by Jeff | Mar 21, 2023 | Articles, Band Director
To the right is a sample Band Progress Report to send home, especially for non-graded ensembles. In case you want to edit or redesign, below is the text so you can customize: Sample – Band Progress Report (Band, Orchestra, etc.) Name: Grade: ...
