Marching Arts Education
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Just Play #2 – with Matt and Ben Harloff
Matt and Ben Harloff will guide you through a warm-up and then give you the opportunity to play some music you know and love!
Inside the Circle w/ Matt Harloff: The Approach After This Long Break
Matt Harloff, the guru behind the Avon HS and Carolina Crown winds, shares advice and processes you can use with your students for maximum success this Fall.
Front Ensemble Friday: Iain Moyer – A Marimbists & Arrangers Guide to Vibraphone
Iain Moyer of Boston Crusaders explores what makes the vibraphone a different playing experience AND highlights unique ways of scoring for the instrument outside of it's stereotypical functions.
Front Ensemble Friday: Jim Ancona- Four Mallet Octaves
Jim Ancona of Carolina Crown explains and demonstrates some one-handed octave exercises to facilitate muscle memory with the subtle changes in the size of the spread, plus octaves hand-to-hand, spread apart and a hand-to-hand, stacked.Â
Just Play – with Matt and Ben Harloff
Get out your horn and play for an hour with the gurus of Inside the Circle and Carolina Crown Brassline.
The Breakdown with Michael Rosales: Building Off The First Class
Wind players, percussionists, guard performers, or fans are welcome to join us to learn movement skills and fun visuals YOU can take back to your own group.
The Cadets: Meet the Design Team
Meet the Design team at The Cadets, learn about their experience, how long at Cadets, and how The Cadets Design Team goes about working together.
The Cadets: Meet the Caption Managers
The Caption Managers at The Cadets give you tips on how to organize your staff and be more effective and efficient.
The Cadets: Meet The Member Leadership
We discuss the Section Leadership at The Cadets, an introduction of the member leadership, and introduction of The Cadets Drum Majors.
The Cadets: Meet the Management/Development Team
Get to know the leadership of The Cadets, learn about their history in the activity, and their role with The Cadets.
Jersey Surf: Community, Mindfulness, and the Member Experience
The Jersey Surf percussion team explores this objective through the lens of mental health, performance mindset, and giving everyone a voice within the group.
Spirit of Atlanta: A Day with the Delta Diamonds
The Spirit of Atlanta Guard staff takes you on a walk through what it looks like to be a member of the Spirit color guard during move ins and tour.
Jersey Surf: Before the Dots – Charting a Course for Success
Visual Designer Mitch Rogers and Jersey Surf Program Coordinator Tom Kershaw discuss what information needs to be prepared, planned, considered, and collected to fully realize your visual program
Spirit of Atlanta: Quick Tips for Front Ensemble
Matt Filosa shows and discusses 4 quick videos from proper stance behind the keyboard to setting up Mainstage for your synth player. Â
Jersey Surf: Overcoming Challenging Conditions to Create World Class Visual Experiences
Michael Lombo and Mike Duborow discuss the Jersey Surf’s approach with working to train younger, less experienced members and how to strategically plan your daily visual focus when precious rehearsal time is limited.
The System: The Legacy of Freddy Martin, Jim OTT, and the Spirit of Atlanta Brass
The Spirit of Atlanta Brass leadership talk through the history of the hornline and the pedagogical approach.
Blue Stars – The Visual Program Cheat Sheets: A Helpful Guide
Blue Stars Visual Staff members Kyle Castro and Roger Marquis discuss concise concepts and techniques to take any program to the next level visually.
Spirit of Atlanta: Designing For Your Identity
The Spirit of Atlanta Design Team talks through how to design for your ensemble's brand identity and brand.
Blue Stars: Making Sectionals Count
Get more done in less time! Â Join Blue Stars Brass Caption Head Travis Larson to learn how to equip your staff and students to run efficient and effective sectionals.Â
Jersey Surf: Preparing Your First DCI Hornline Audition
The Jersey Surf Brass Staff talk about how to choose appropriate repertoire, what a brass staff listens for in an audition, and how to balance preparing camp repertoire with audition material, as well as a few tips for folks learning a new instrument for drum corps.