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…
Education
What can the Marching Arts Community Learn from Simone Biles?
Simone Biles dominated the news and every social media news feed when she stepped back from competing in the 2021 Olympics. When I heard this news, my first feelings were pride and relief. Pride because I was insanely proud of that woman for putting HERSELF over OTHERS…on that large of Read more…
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 Read more…
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. 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 Read more…
Band Directors
3 Tips for Young Teachers to up their Teaching Game (part 1)
Young teachers are the lifeblood of the marching arts. Each year, eager educators initiate long and winding careers that impact the lives of those around them more than they will ever know. The beauty of being a young teacher is the fire, energy, and the unique perspective you bring to Read more…
Band Directors
Let’s Talk About Stress
As ensemble directors, educators, and performers, we sometimes live our lives on mountains of stress. Stress from work, stress from school or other obligations. At times, the very people we care about most can be sources of stress…
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.
