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A successful band program depends on successful students. In order to have successful students, there must be the presence of a successful band director who has an effective teaching strategy to the beginning band students. There are two main strategies of teaching beginning band. Option one is to immediately start the children on instruments, teaching proper sitting, hand, and holding positions, as well as embouchure formation, tone, and musical notation. The second option is to start by teaching musical notation first, so that when the student does begin on the instrument, there is less for them to think about all at once, because the notation will have already been taught. ... Her first article states that children should be given the chance to play the instrument in the beginning (2003).
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