Habits of Success

Intended for both novice and experienced band directors, this companion to Scott Rush’s bestselling book Habits of a Successful Band Director is designed to:

- Present effective teaching principles with more depth and understanding
- Challenge readers to look deep within themselves to find solutions that will lead to more effective teaching
- Pose questions and suggest activities to put these solutions into action and cause readers to set goals through self-discovery
- Establish the classroom as a true laboratory for making music
- Provide a study guide for college methods classes using Habits of a Successful Band Director

This user-friendly volume is chock-full of ideas for solving common technical problems and, more importantly, creates a framework for band directors to re- evaluate and improve every aspect of the job. This book is designed to be an invaluable companion for the entire breadth of a band director’s career.

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In Habits of a Successful Band Director, Scott Rush provides:
- A how-to book for young teachers
- A supplement for college methods classes
- A common sense approach to everyday problems band directors face
- Sequential models for instruction that are narrow in scope
- Solutions, in the form of information and probing questions, that allow assessment of a classroom situation
- Valuable information in a new format and references to other helpful publications
- A contemporary text for all band directors

Some of the topics covered in the ten chapters include: classroom organization and management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of the warm-up, rehearsal strategies, selecting high-quality literature, and student leadership.

The appendices provide valuable outlines and reproducible forms such as medical releases and pitch tendency charts.

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In Habits of a Successful Mucisian, A Comprehensive Curriculum for Use During Fundamentals Time

Habits of a Successful Musician is a field-tested, vital, and—most important—musical collection of more than 200 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals.

Perfect for use in by an entire band or solo player at virtually any skill level, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary builders, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything a young player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature.

• Provides material for use during fundamentals time that would promote a comprehensive approach to developing skills necessary to fill the musical toolbox.
• Includes a sequential format that leads to the mastery of reading rhythms and, ultimately, to musical sightreading.
• Promotes the idea that fundamentals time should transfer directly into the performance of great literature.
• Provide chorales for the development of tone quality and musicianship.
• Habits of a Successful Musician is the answer to the very simple question, “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?”

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