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PREAMBLE to: An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

James O. Froseth

Contributing Editor, Molly A. Weaver

CHAPTER 1 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Behavior Management

CHAPTER 2 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Getting Beginning Students Off to a Good Start

CHAPTER 3 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Customizing and Individualizing Group Instruction

CHAPTER 4 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Motivation

CHAPTER 5 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Teaching Rhythm and Music Reading

CHAPTER 6 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Assessment and Feedback

CHAPTER 7 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Dropouts – Causes – Consequences – Remedies

CHAPTER 8 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

– Memorization – A Foundation Skill

CHAPTER 9 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Singing Develops Concepts to Guide Home Practice

CHAPTER 10 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

-The Call and Response- A Technique that Teaches and Assesses

CHAPTER 11 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band

The Play Along & Musical Osmosis

“Osmosis is what’s happening while you are attending to other matters.”

CHAPTER 12 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Free Implementation Resources

Teaching Improvisation Entry-Level and Beyond

CHAPTER 13 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Free Implementation Resources

Accompanied Half Scales & Full Scales with Options

CHAPTER 14 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Free Implementation Resources.

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Ensemble Warm-Ups that Teach

CHAPTER 15 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Implementation Resources

Pedagogy With Unintended Consequences

CHAPTER 16 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Implementation Resources

– Three Must Reads – Pedagogy that Can Make a Difference

CHAPTER 17A – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Implementation Resources

14 Ways of Thinking About Music Teaching and Music Learning

CHAPTER 17B – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Implementation Resources

14 More Ways of Thinking About Music Learning & Teaching

CHAPTER 18 – An eBook on Teaching Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Implementation Resources

Resources for Self-Directed Professional Development

Addendum 1.

Aural Transposition

1) Test of Aural Transposition

2) ‘America’ Tranposed “By Ear”

Addendum 2

– Osmosis –

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The most magical type of learning because it seems to happen without effort.”

Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915

Addendum 3

T E A C H Patterns

Addendum 4

Rhythmic Pattern Reading

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Pattern Reading Assessment

Flashslide pattern reading videos

Addendum 5

Introduction to Melodic Pattern Reading

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Melodic Pattern Reading Assessment

Flashslide pattern reading videos

Addendum 6

Teaching Students How to Practice

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Why Don’t Students Practice?

Addendum 7

– Research Tools –

1) Melodic Ear-to-Hand Test

2) Solfege Test

3) Test of Kinesthetic Response

Addendum 8

Finger Pattern Studies for Music Improvisation

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ALBERT BLASER

Addendum 9

Du de – Du da di Rhythmic Syllables

1) James Froseth Authorship Verification

2) Conductor’s Beat – Listen & Imitate

3) Duple Meter – Liten & Imitate

4) Triple Meter – Listen & Imitate

Addendum 10

Harmonic Progression

by

ALBERT BLASER

Addendum 11

Diagnosing and Correcting Faulty Wind Instrument Habits

Addendum 12

Do It! Improvise Supplement

1) Improvisation Strategies

2) Latin Rock-Pentatonic Scales

3) Cool Jazz – Pentatonic Scales

4) Rhythm & Blues-Blues Scales

5) Funky Blues – Blues Scales

6) Latin Rock – Blues Scales

7) Cool Jazz – Blues Scales

8) ii/V7 Mixolydian Montuna

9) 2-5-1 – Major-Minor

Addendum 13

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Entry Level Improvisation

1A) Creativity Killers (Alert)

2) Entry Level C&R Articulations

3) Things to Do (“How to” Strategies)

4) Creating a Safe Environment

5) C&R Vocabulary For Improv

6) Tunes to Learn Ear-to-Hand (By Ear)

FOR BAND

Folder 15

Improvisation for Everyone

Entry-Level Improvisation in a Group

Constructing a Safe Environment

Getting Off to a Good Start

Call & Response Videos for Home Study

“By Ear” Transcription Studies

Advanced Resources for Improvisation

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