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Feature Your Outstanding Students – Solos with the Band
Feature Your Outstanding Students - Solos with the Band
In the spring of 1999 BAS Publishing Co. was founded with the idea of publishing good solos, solos from the standard repertoire, with band accompaniment. This would allow…
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BLUE LAKE OVERTURE
Here is an exciting, festival type overture. It is varied in tone color but unified in theme.
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An Ounce of Prevention
The start of a drum corps season always can bring a shock to the system, from new surroundings, to new people, changes in eating and sleeping habits and especially with the physical demands placed on the corps member … That is, if you’re…
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Cope Your Way to a Stress-free Life
Cope Your Way to a Stress-free Life
By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc.
First published in Fanfare, Volume 21, Issue 3, Spring/Summer 2007. Reprinted by permission.
This time of year finds many of us weighed down and…
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Be Remarkable!
Be Remarkable!
By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc.
First printed in Fanfare, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Autumn 2007. Reprinted by permission.
Marching bands can hardly help but be noticed. People instinctively turn their heads…
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It’s Your Story…Stick With It!
It's Your Story...Stick With It!
By Randy T. Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc.
Originally published in The Bandmasters Review Online, September 2008 - volume 10 - issue 1. Reprinted by permission.
Even though the Olympics are…
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What did You Say?
What did You Say?
The hallmark of effective teaching is based on successful communication. The basis of successful communication is intrinsically bound to our use of words. Words have power. Rudyard Kipling goes so far as to say, “Words…
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Going the Extra Mile
Going the Extra Mile
By Randy T. Gilmore
Our inner drive to “be the best,” to run farther, jump higher, have the best band program, or do anything better than ‘the other guy’ is ingrained in us as children. You never see a…
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Checklist for Success for Your Upcoming Marching Band Season
Checklist for Success for Your Upcoming Marching Band Season
Last fall, after I had just finished judging state marching band finals in another state, it got me thinking about what I would tell each of the band directors of the groups…
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