Clinic Handouts
- Beginning band is over: Are the Clarinets Ready for your Performing Group?
- At the end of the first year of band, clarinet students often lack the refinement needed to successfully contribute to a performing ensemble. Focusing on unique problems associated with the advancing clarinetist, this clinic will provide suggestions and exercises designed to develop the essentials skills required of a capable clarinet section.
- Texas Music Educators Association Convention
San Antonio, TX
February 17, 2006
- TMEA Handout
- Fear Factor: Finding Woodwind Chamber Music
- This clinic is designed to introduce new repertoire for various combinations of woodwind instruments; repertoire is appropriate for intermediate to advanced high school/college students. The combinations include:
- Trios:
flute, oboe and clarinet;
flute, oboe and bassoon;
flute, clarinet and saxophone;
oboe, clarinet and bassoon
- Quartets:
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon;
oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone;
- Texas Bandmasters Association Convention
San Antonio, TX
July 22, 2006
- TBA Handout
- Little Steps to the Big Break
- When clarinet students first join band, they enter a whole new world, one that is fresh, novel and fun. As the year progresses, certain aspects of the clarinet can become quite challenging. One of the more difficult areas is conquering the technique required to go over the break. Without proper guidance, many students become frustrated, dejected and may even quit. The following article will concentrate on this issue and suggest a systematic approach to introducing and mastering the break.
- Texas Bandmasters Association Newsletter
Spring 2009
- TBA article
