Category: Music Education
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Using Database Software in Your Band Program
I’ve gotten a lot out of listening to the Class Nerd Podcast and lots of the things that Robby Burns puts out. I was insanely jealous in the Class Nerd episode where Robby described his use of FileMaker in his band program. Unfortunately, I don’t have the chops with a program as complicated as FileMaker…
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Managing Multiple Drives and Managing My First Year
I’m well into the start of my first year teaching now, and things are crazy. I wanted to first share a tip I’m using to manage some of the work I’m doing on my own computer for work (I have a PC assigned to me by my school, but I’m working a lot outside of…
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Teaching Scales
I’ve put off posting for awhile because I’m running into some specific formatting issues with the top post in my drafts folder that I’m hoping a friend of mine can help me with. In the mean time, I thought I’d dig up some resources for other music educators I’ve been meaning to post. Today I’ve…
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Using Sibelius on a Laptop
In my opinion, Sibelius has some decent and intuitive keyboard shortcuts on a full keyboard, with its heavy emphasis around the numpad. However, I find it to be essentially unusable on a Macbook Pro which lacks the numpad. It has a “notebook” shortcut set, but I find that to be just as unusable, and far from…
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