On-demand recording of the August 2019 webinar on starting beginning band students. Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for brass and woodwinds, developing music reading skills, building strong fundamentals, establishing practice habits, and using the EEi Music Studio to shape tone quality from day one.
Read More →On-demand strings webinar with Soo Han (Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory) and Steve Smith (Hal Leonard). Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for beginning strings, music reading, fundamentals, practice habit formation, and the EEi tools and resources that support each step.
Read More →A 20–30 minute on-demand webinar on using EEi to keep students focused: creating recording assignments, using the grade book efficiently, building self-assessment rubrics, getting feedback to struggling students, and FAQs — plus a downloadable EEi Lesson Plans PDF with classroom activities.
Read More →The series finale. Late April 2021. Terry Little — the very first EE Band Talk guest — returns to close the loop on a school year that started with empty band rooms and ended with fifth graders performing in May. Plus Steve Smith on EEi’s millionth student recording and a one-click deep link from Google Classroom.
Read More →Late February 2021. Charlie, Tim, and Paul honor Sammy Nestico and Chick Corea, talk pandemic-era band culture, and bring in Will Skelton — principal at Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas, former Downing Middle School band director, and the man Steve Smith credits for teaching him how to teach.
Read More →First episode of 2021. Paul's fifth inaugural commission, a Jim Stevenson Fanfare for Democracy, the live-recording grade tool coming to EEi, single sign-on with Google Classroom — and the show's institutional memory: Herman Knoll on the original Purple Book, the late-90s rewrite, and the Hal Leonard founders who started as band directors.
Read More →The first orchestra-focused EE Band Talk. David Eccles — Orchestra Program Director at The Lovett School in Atlanta and former Director of String Music Education at VanderCook — on essential elements for non-string-major teachers, the top-of-page-18 practice sequence, and the new EEi video submission feature now in open beta.
Read More →Early November 2020. Charlie, Tim, and Paul talk motivation and music selection — serious literature vs the music kids actually want to play — then Mike Sweeney, Hal Leonard’s Director of Band Publications, walks through the Favorites collections and the brand-new Flex Band grade 1.5 level built for socially-distanced ensembles.
Read More →Mid-October 2020 episode. Charlie, Tim, and Paul name the new buzzword — fatigue — then dig into social-emotional learning, the edutainment trap, Steve Smith’s tutorial library, and a long visit with Nick Averwater of Amro Music in Memphis, a family-run dealer nearing its 100th anniversary.
Read More →Charlie, Tim and Paul welcome Glenn Schneider — Metea Valley HS band director, Wheaton College, VanderCook MECA online instructor — to talk feedback loops in a Zoom band room, goal-setting, why music is the favorite class of the day, and the assignment that energized his week.
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