1. Charles Campbell & Lois U. Wiggins

2. This clinic….
This clinic will present a step by step approach and resources to aid preparing your concert program for successful performances.

3. You can only eat an Elephant one bite at a time.

4. TONE
INTONATION
BALANCE
TECHNIQUE
“Just as a master chef in a five star restaurant must be concerned about the ingredients used in every dish served… the same is true of a maestro preparing all the musical components of a wind ensemble rehearsal.” Chuck Campbell

5. It’s Not Just What you play…. It’s How you Play it.
MUSIC
Variety of
Style & Textures
Technical
Issues
Appropriateness
SCORE
STUDY
RECORDINGS
RECORDING
YOUR BAND
GUEST
CONDUCTORS
INSTRUMENTATION
“We (composers) often hear admonitions to raise the level of band music. This can’t be done…we must raise the taste of the conductor.” Francis McBeth

6. If You See a Turtle on a Fence Post…
Your Know He didn't Get There by Himself!

7. Middle School
Instrumentation – making it happen Cultivating the color instruments (practice horns, deliberate recruiting)
Music Selection – to fit your ensemble!
Expectations, Expectations, Expectations…

8. Would You Want a Fox....
to Guard Your Hen House?

9. High School
Administration
Boosters
Bus Drivers
Others….

10. Some Resources.. Middle School
101 Rhythmic Rest Patterns, Alfred
Bach and Before for Band, Kjos
Great Warm Ups for Young Bands, Kjos
Great Warm Ups for Advancing Bands, Kjos
Foundations to Superior Performance, Kjos
Scale Preps for Beginning Bands, Curnow Music
Strickly Technic, Alfred
Keyboard Poster

11. Some Resources.. High School
101 Rhythmic Rest Patterns, Alfred
“Fussell” Exercises for Ensemble Drill, Alfred
Fourteen Weeks to a Better Band, C L Barnhouse
Sixteen Chorales by J.S. Bach, G. Schirmer
Symphonic Warm-ups for Band, Jenson
Tips for Band, Alfred
Tone Builders for Developing Bands, Curnow
Tone Studies for Band, Curnow
Tone Studies “2” for Band, Curnow
Essential Elements 2000, Hal Leonard

12. Abraham Lincoln….
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Notes, Rhythms, scales and exercises are the tools, the concert performance is the tree..

13. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.

14. “The destiny of your program is relevant to your expectations and knowledge you bring to your classroom”
Chuck Campbell

15. Always Fan the Flame of Success!

16. It Might…..
Set the World on Fire!

17. Thanks for coming!