Educational Resources
Welcome to our Musical Resources page, a hub for teachers and students alike. Here you will find a variety of materials, including worksheets, activities, designed to help in music education. Feel free to use as you see fit. I do not proclaim to own all of this information. I have given credit to those from whom I have borrowed, please do the same from me. All original material is ©gregedwardsmusic. Happy to discuss if you have any questions.
Concert Band Teaching Ideas
An easy and creative first assignment for students new to you and your program using restitution to help define everyone's roles in the band room. Lovingly borrowed from Dianne Gossen
Here are some typical answers:
One of many ways to set up your expectations in a performance based classroom.
Administered the last week before Winter Break to help guide student practice upon return.
Allowing students to fully commit to an honest refection of their abilities and their perceived acgievement in your course of study.
Over my career I have developed a Band Philosophy. Although these are Band Philosophies, they apply to everyday life and students can use them long after they leave the world of "Band"
Just a really easy online guide to help your student count those really tricky or not so tricky measures.
At the beginning of each year all of my concert band students have to perform a
2 octave chromatic scale where they say the note then play it. (Gr.9's can use their book and 10, 11 and 12 must do it from memory)
A really great way to get your sections to connect with their members and some thoughts about everyones roles within the section.
Students need feedback to be clear and most of all transparent.
Jazz Band Teaching Ideas
One of many ways to set up your expectations in a performance based classroom.
Everything you need to know to help navigate your role in the jazz ensemble.
... or how to get your band to really "SWING."
Everything you need to know to help navigate your role in the jazz ensemble.
A great set of lessons designed specifically to help your students interpret swing music
A solid reminder about how we contribute to the music we make from the halls of Berklee in 1985