Wednesday, June 19th, 2013


Welcome to Mr. M.'s Concert Band and

Wind Ensemble Website

~ AGENDA: ~Smiley 
You Gotta' Practice, and you Gotta' Practice Intelligently!

UPCOMING MUSICAL EVENTS:

HaPPy Summer Holiday! Please go out and support LIVE Music!!!

 


Please remember to schedule a make up lesson during the same week of your scheduled lesson.

Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to subscribe to my website! It is updated every Sunday evening......

 

IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS PLAYING WITH BRACES, OR ARE ABOUT TO HAVE BRACES PUT ON PLEASE GO TO THE NEW PAGE CALLED " DEALING WITH BRACES" FOR ASSISTANCE.


Don't be a musical dummy! Get hooked up with Smart Music now!

The easiest way to learn your solo & band music quickly is to purchase a yearlong subscription to Smart Music. This music training software will help you learn your solo & band parts by playing along with you! Go to www.smartmusic.com to purchase a subscription. In order to receive the 75% reduced student rate (student rate is only $30), be sure type in Washingtonville when you are asked for your school code. Although most of the solos (and a large selection of band literature) are on Smart Music, do a search on their website to see if your solo, etc is indeed on available on Smart Music (this can be done on their web site before purchasing).

In the never ending quest to inspire our students to reach their highest Musical goals, we the WCSD Music Department highly recommend that ALL of our students and parents invest in the SMART MUSIC technology. Please go to the newly added page on this site appropriately entitled "SMART MUSIC" for pertinent information. This program is an extraordinarily incredible learning tool to inspire all who utilize this terrific program!!

Parents/Students can purchase Smart Music online at the aforementioned page. There, it will be explained what Smart Music is. When ordering students will be asked for their school code in order to receive the 75% discounted price. Our school code is: "Washingtonville".
The Smart Music website is huge. It goes over everything you would want to know via text and videos (including explanations by Wynton Marsalis).


"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace......."
James Marshall Hendrix

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UPCOMING MUSICAL EVENTS:

 

Please check here to view "YOUTUBE" clips of the week:

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Please go the "LESSON SCHEDULE " page to see when you your lesson is for the 4th quarter, it can be viewed on that page!

Want to do well @ your next audition? Well then, you should check out the link, "PRACTICE TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL AUDITION, THE 4 STEP APPROACH TO SCALE MASTERY & THE BUDDY SCALES" page on this site for expert advice! :-)

Remember: The 3 BIG "S" that will result in the 4th "S"; Scales/ Rudiments + Solo+ Sight-reading= Success..............do this EVERYDAY, and good fortune awaits!

Please check out the" KOOL MUSIC LINKS" for a wide variety of interesting, and musically educational websites!

 If you want to be informed of ALL updates on my website, please scroll down to the bottom of this page as well as ALL the other pages found in the SCROLL BAR and click on: "Subscribe to this Page".

 

 

 

" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." 

(Aldous Huxley, English writer)

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DID YOU KNOW?

Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full school year:

 

  • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement.
  • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools.
  • 4 times more likely to participate in math and science fairs.
  • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance.
  • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem.

Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:

 

  • Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently.
  • Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently.
  • Read for pleasure nearly twice as often.
  • Perform community service more than four times as often.

Please go to the "LESSON SCHEDULE" link to see when your lesson is for the 1st Quarter! A friendly reminder that any missed Lessons should be made up in the SAME week! Be responsible, if you can't make the lesson, let me know ahead of time so that we can reschedule!

Have some fun "surfing the web" @ the "KOOL MUSIC LINKS" section!!

 

 

" All music is FOLK music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song ! "

(Louis Armstrong)


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