For those of you that have returned to school in some manner, what are you doing in class? I find it troubling not to work on breathing.

Are you working small ensembles? Modified, limited instrumentation, or flex model pieces?

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We’re just working on fundamentals for the most part, and because of limited instrumentation we’re sticking to flex-band pieces.

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We’ve been doing breathing gum exercises during warm up. The students felt awakened at first through zoom but now almost all are fully participating. If you cannot maintain a distance for in person I would recommend doing breathing on at home days (presuming you will be in hybrid schedule).

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We're back doing a mostly regular concert season with video concerts. We meet in the gym (previously outside until the weather quit cooperating), wear masks, all brass have bell covers, we space out 6 feet between students, and we sanitize everything before and after class. We have about 110 in the band split between a brass class, woodwind class, and percussion class. Our percussionists meet in our band room, wear masks and face shields, and we have two air purifiers/particulate filters that we run during class. No sharing sticks, every instrument or set of mallets/sticks is disinfected after use and before we swap pieces.

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Was reminded last week of my best off-the-wall response in class. True story.
MS Flute player: “ How do you trill a G?”
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2. 30 seconds until a percussionist went in for the “ba-domp-ding” on snare and cymbal.
3. End of class heard one student say “I still don’t get it.”
MS kids are awesome!

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