Resources
Band Camp Games and Activities
Games and activities perfect for building and maintaining relationships at your next band camp. Easy to learn, lots of fun!
Blog
Leadership
Making the Time for Relationships
A marching band community is typically comprised of four key groups: staff, ensemble leadership, performers, and supporters. It is important to build relationships with and within each of these groups to build a long-lasting and successful program.
Leadership
Pay Your Band Staff
Since I was 18 years old, I have lived out my dream life as a freelance music educator. When you get to teach & make music all day, the world often feels like it is your oyster. You pick and choose how you spend your days. You say yes and no to the work that is most meaningful to you. There is nothing more satisfying to me than pursuing that emotional high of a great Read more…
Band Directors
Protecting Your Staff Through Good Business Practices
How to use contracts to communicate clear expectations and protect both staff members and directors throughout the season.
Band Directors
What to Look For When Hiring Band Staff
What to Look For When Hiring Band Staff-Inspired by our new E-Book, Developing Your Staff, read to learn about best practices for hiring staff that align to the vision of your program.
Inspiration
Lauren Tucker’s Favorite Things
This Friday we are so lucky to interview Lauren Tucker on all her thoughts about staff training. Lauren is an amazing person and so fun to talk with! As a fun addition to the upcoming interview, we asked Lauren for a list of her current top 5 favorite things!
Leadership
How Staff Influences Your Season
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Probably not Aristotle I’d like to start today’s blog with a question I have posed time and time again on this website: What defines your season? Seriously. Take a moment and ask yourself that question. What are the 2-3 things that happen during your season by which you measure its success or failure? Have you written your answers? No? I’ll Read more…
Education
Welcome to Design Details Season 2
Welcome back! We’ve missed you! Music Effect Design is built around the value of sharing the very best of what we know with people who want to deliver the best to their students. It’s a labor of love, and we take pride in our efforts in our first year as a business. Since our very first week, Design Details has served as a prime channel for us to fulfill that mission. Each week we are Read more…
Band Directors
Spring Cleaning Your Mindset
As of 11 days ago, it OFFICIALLY springs! After what feels like the longest winter we have experienced, with COVID restrictions on our seasons and new challenges along the way, we have finally made it to the other side. Spring always reminds me of new beginnings and fresh starts…maybe that is because I live in the midwest where I can FINALLY dust off my sandals again. There is one thing every band program has in Read more…
