Kevin Bollinger of Denver’s own Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra takes us through the history of swing! Topics include the origins of the genre, prominent performers who helped shape its evolution, and the decline of swing as popular music. This session was proudly sponsored by Boomer Music Company at the 2021 Colorado Music Educators Association Virtual […]
Last Week:We released some great videos, specifically the CMEA session Podcasting and the Virtual Director and Care and Feeding of Your Trumpet Valves. And since things rarely go as planned, there’s also a blog post on ThePodcastingStore.com talking about everything that went wrong in making the Care and Feeding Video and how these challenges were […]
Drew walks you through some easy trumpet valve maintenance that a player of any experience level can do at home. He shows you how to remove the pistons, use a cleaning rod and cloth to remove dirt and gunk, oil the valve and casing, and some valuable tips on realigning the valve accurately. Performing this […]
Podcasts and video content are now more prevalent than ever in today’s remote learning environment. But how can a classroom teacher adapt these tools to enhance remote learning and better engage their students? Dr. Charles Menghini and Don Stinson recorded this video outlining how to do this very thing. We are proud not only to […]
Thank you everyone for a great CMEA! Our evening session was so much fun that we may need to do some more of that sort of thing in the future. In this update: We released the cooking videos (including the behind the scenes how-to) to our YouTube channel. So if you missed it (or want […]
So much to talk about this week! CMEA Starts Wednesday, and we’re sponsoring a great session on Podcasting and the Virtual Director featuring Charlie Menghini of the podcast Band Talk with Charlie Menghini and Friends and Don Stinson from The Bandmasters podcast! AND on Friday we’re sponsoring Kevin Bollinger from Denver’s own Hot Tomatoes who […]
We continue to madly prepare for CMEA! Utilizing the talents of Denver’s famed Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra, the clinic will explore the roots of the swing jazz style, and how a more thorough understanding of these roots can assist young performers in developing their own jazz performance style. We’re proud to be sponsoring this session […]
The buzz extension and resistance piece, better known as The Berp, helps you develop proper breath support by blowing into resistance, letting you buzz your mouthpiece while you hold your instrument in the regular playing position. The Berp also lets you press your instrument’s valves or move the slide to match the pitches you’re buzzing, […]
We’re gearing up for the Colorado Music Educators Association virtual conference at the end of the month! We’re sponsoring an exciting session on Podcasting and the virtual director that is timely, informative, and more relevant than ever. Register today if you have not already!
We have an important delivery this week for the Thompson School District! The short time frame, volume of product, and time of year made this a unique (but fun!) challenge.