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What is Practice, Anyway?
Posted by: jdunnavant on: February 7, 2012
- In: Band | College/University Teaching | Flute | Oboe | Singing | Uncategorized
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I saw one of my favorite students today. She’s 15, and she is REALLY good at it. I think of her as my “little black raincloud,” because she has a comeback for every compliment. We start every lesson in pretty much the same way. She comes in, sits down, gets her flute out, and tells [...]
Don’t Keep Up With the Joneses
Posted by: bwalters on: January 24, 2012
Everyone’s “favorite” encyclopedia provides the following definition for “Keeping up with the Joneses” : ”an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social caste or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.” So what does [...]
Why We All Should Sing
Posted by: jdunnavant on: January 11, 2012
I am not a trained singer. I sing all the time, in the church choir, in the car, in the shower, sometimes in embarassingly public places like the grocery store…and I sing a lot when I’m teaching. I feel the need to add the disclaimer that I am NOT a trained singer because there’s so [...]
Winning by Losing
Posted by: jdunnavant on: December 4, 2011
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This is the season in Tennessee for many high school and middle school flute players to try out for our regional bands and orchestras, and the results of those auditions establish a list of students from East, West and Middle Tennessee who are invited to the All-State Band and Orchestra. As anyone reading this post [...]
Expression and Enjoyment
Posted by: jdunnavant on: November 10, 2011
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Today was a gray, wet, windy, chilly day. It was miserable, and as someone who’s lived through lots of winters in Nashville, I know that it’s likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. The traffic was heavy and all the stoplights were red. And I was clumsy all day–I dropped 130 graded tests on [...]
Responsibility 101
Posted by: jdunnavant on: October 6, 2011
We’re getting into the whiny part of the semester. We’re just about halfway through, and all my students’ classes seem to be ramping up in terms of workload and expectations. I’ve been teaching music appreciation-type classes for six years now, and every semester is the same in this respect. I get ten or twelve emails every [...]
Writing A Bio
Posted by: Paula Brusky on: October 4, 2011
Excellent! You now have lists of all the important details to keep track of. Now what do I do with them?? Well at some point in your musical career you will need a bio. It is important to be able to customize a bio based on the use. For example: if I’m submitting a bio [...]
Introduction and Randomness
Posted by: bwalters on: September 29, 2011
Hello and thanks for taking some time out of your day to visit our collective and for reading this blog. This is the first in a series dedicated to providing new approaches to making the most out of the time we spend in the “practice room.” As the series progresses you will understand why I [...]
Becoming a Student Again
Posted by: jdunnavant on: September 3, 2011
- In: Flute | Uncategorized
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A few weeks ago, I attended an Irish Festival so that I could participate in a flute workshop. I bought an Irish flute a year ago from a Baroque flute student of mine, but other than admire how lovely it looks, I hadn’t really done anything with it. You see, it’s hard. The holes are [...]
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Paula Brusky - Bassoonist, injury prevention expert, professor, founding director of BCMCC. |
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Jon Cotton - Middle school band director, music education expert. |
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Jessica Dunnavant - Flutist, professor, early music enthusiast. |
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Diane Haslam - Singer, professor, writer. |
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Stephanie Henke - Oboist, DMA student. |
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Bart Walters - Jazz and classical saxophonist, popular music expert, former Army musician. |
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Tammy Evans Yonce - Flutist, professor, chamber and orchestral musician, contemporary music fan. |