Two Left Feet: Wonky, Comedic Marches for Band (Grade 4-5)
Keep your audience on their toes - or not. They'll be hard pressed to keep tapping in time to these off-balance marches!
Australian Music for High School, University, Youth & Community Full Orchestra
Looking to diversify the repertoire for your orchestra? Whether your musicians are just starting out, or ready for a big challenge, there's a work by an Australian composer with your name on it!
Does our repertoire reflect our people?
Well, does it? If the answer's no, then we've got work to do. Here's how to get better.
Conducting Success in 2020: How to ditch old conducting habits, and make new ones
Do you have a bad conducting habit that's been annoying you for a long time? That thing that you remember once for 3 seconds when you're on the podium, then then next time you think of it is an hour later? Here's how to solve that problem, for good.
Three grade 3 pieces to promote independence and creativity
So much of our job is telling players what to do and how to do it. It's so easy for us to get stuck on the podium, dictating to students every element of what and how to play. It feels good - we say something and the sound improves! Yay! But this method is actually really inefficient. What if the students could be making their own judgements about the music, adjusting in the moment and, essentially, rehearsing themselves? Sound impossible and idyllic? It's not.
