Band Directors
What Your Student Brings Back from Summer Camp
Summer clinics aren’t just fun. Students return to their programs and bring back invaluable tools that make everyone around them better…
Visual Design
Use Dot Math to Move Cleaner than Ever
Dot math is a method to help your students understand their midpoints and transition better than ever.
Resources
3 Tips For Improving Your Marching Band Audio
Are you looking to improve your sound set-up for your fall show? Read to learn some of the basics in setting up, including tips on equalizing, microphones, and instrument specific tips.
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
Steps to Plan Your 2021 Fall Show
Once again we find ourselves asking: how do we make the right decisions for an upcoming season that support the entire community?
Band Directors
A Call to Winds
Directors are always looking for new opportunities for students. And Indoor Winds is exactly the kind of program passionate pageantry members need this year.
Color Guard
Making the Most of Equipment: What to Choose, When- Part 1
One of the challenges band and color guard directors face is deciding what equipment should be used at different points in the show. While there is never ONLY one correct answer, our goal is to give you a starting point: How to make educated equipment choices based on the needs of your program.
Band Directors
Help! I’m in Charge of the Guard Now!
Building Blocks of a Thriving Color Guard Program Many new directors have faced the problem of realizing that they are in charge of the color guard. In this post I’ll be outlining some of the basic needs of a color guard program and what’s needed to make it happen. This Read more…
Band Directors
Color Guard on a Budget
(Make you, the judges, and your students happy!) Many of us in the marching arts have been at the crossroads of wanting to create a highly effective color guard program but having concerns about keeping the budget in-check. You might be hoping that in the article I’m going to help Read more…