We music educators would be well served to keep abreast of music developments in the popular gaming world. Beyond better understanding our students’ extracurricular preferences, we might see that music-based games can be useful educational tools. Popular music video games involving karaoke, guitars, rhythm and drumming, music sequencing, and dancing are all growing in popularity. [...]
What’s the secret to a successful school music travel or festival experience? Simply put, planning, planning, and more planning though that can hardly be called a secret. The preparations required vary in accordance with the magnitude of the endeavor, but most involve some degree of fundraising and the garnering of administrative and parental support, in [...]
TSU Team Wins Shure Recording CompetitionShure Incorporated has announced that a three-member team from the music department at Texas State University is this year’s Grand Prize Winner of the fourth annual “Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition.” The three-student team of Joel Cowen, Adam Brisbin and Jordan Lott, with faculty advisor, Mark Erickson, won this year’s Shure [...]
The most successful school music programs share a few common ingredients: support from the community and administration; strong and well-established feeder schools; and perhaps most importantly, a creative director, tireless in his or her devotion to providing the best possible experience for the program’s students. Indeed, when speaking with Moanalua High School band director Elden [...]
If we were to walk down the sidewalk and encounter a construction worker using a jackhammer, most of us would either put our fingers in our ears or walk to the other side of the street to escape the noise. The volume of a circular saw ranges between 90-100 decibels, a backhoe, 85-95 decibels, and [...]
