Front Ensemble Friday: Matt Jordan – Integrating Electronics
Matt discusses techniques and strategies for making that possible in both indoor and outdoor ensembles. Â
Front Ensemble Friday: Ian Hale & Jason Ihnat – Split It Up
Ian Hale and Jason Ihnat of the Boston Crusaders discuss the orchestration techniques and pedagogy for implementing split parts in the front ensemble.
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
Front Ensemble Friday: Ian Grom – Conquering the Blank Page
Ian Grom shares clar, concrete ideas of a process YOU can use to write more effective compositions and arrangements.
Marching Percussion Design Tailored To Your Group
Adam Wiencken shares smart, effective, easy ways to look at how he approaches tailoring his percussion design at all levels.
Music City: Effective Design For Percussion Arranging
The program coordinator and percussion design team discuss the process of how to coordinate effective percussion arranging with visual ideas.
Cavaliers: Cleaning It Up
The Cavaliers percussion staff and designers take us behind the scenes to look at the editing process as a show evolves during the season.
Legends: Building the Total Percussionist
Landon Ewers, Director of Percussion for Legends, talks with Ibe Sodawalla about the program and instruction that their members receive.
Front Ensemble Friday: Lauren Teel – Creating an Ensemble Sound
Balance, timing, and sound quality all make up the ensemble sound. Lauren Teel of the Troopers will talk and demonstrate each component and how to develop them as both a member and instructor. Â Â