Starting Out Right: Beginning Band Pedagogy - Hardcover

by Si Millican (Author)

Starting Out Right: Beginning Band Pedagogy is the only complete resource for organizing, planning, and teaching beginning woodwind, brass, and percussion students. The book covers every aspect of teaching beginning band students from the first sounds on the instruments through the first full-band performances. It is the only comprehensive reference that offers step-by-step guidelines for teaching each beginning band instrument, as well as organizing and running a successful beginning band program. Based on the public school teaching experience of the author, the book is designed for use in undergraduate methods and pedagogy classes as well as for clinics and workshops at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This book is also designed to be a reference for the many novice teachers who lead beginning bands or those teachers whose expertise is not in the band realm.

Author Biography

Si Millican is assistant professor of music education at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he teaches coursework in instrumental music education. Prior to his university work, Dr. Millican taught public school for 13 years at the high-school and middle-school levels.