Effective Band Warm-up
Warm-up routines and Daily Exercises are used by the clinicians. Participants will played their instruments in order to feel what the students experience from this process. Handouts are of prime importance here. Take the group through your routines and explain/enlighten as necessary.
Session 2: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Applying routine warm-ups to the learning of a piece. Showing specific ways that effective warm-ups can make teaching of a piece more efficient. The SFA Wind Ensemble will be the demonstration group for this part. (They will have gone through the piece a couple of times, and they will have your handouts.)
LOCATION:
Wright Music Building, Band Hall, Room 121
Street Address: Alumni Drive/Vista Drive (Google map of the area)
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
Band Office: 936-468-4702
Sat, Oct 7, 2006
Registration: 9:00 - 9:30 AM
Clinic: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM; 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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Melodianne Mallow
Melodianne Mallow is in her tenth year as band director at North Richland Middle School in the Birdville ISD. She received her undergraduate degree from Howard Payne University and a Master of Music from East Texas State.
She has taught middle school band in the metroplex for 21 years with the last 15 in the Birdville ISD. Ms. Mallow's bands have earned consistent UIL Sweepstakes awards as well as "Best in Class" at numerous festivals. In 1998, her band was named TMEA Class CC State Honor Band and 4th runner-up in 1996.
Ms. Mallow is an active clinician and adjudicator throughout Texas. Professional affiliations include Phi Beta Mu, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, Texas Music Educators Association and Texas Bandmasters Association.
Waymon Bullock
Waymon Bullock
Waymon Bullock graduated from Lamar University and worked at Diboll ISD and Dayton ISD before heading back to his childhood home town of Lufkin. While teaching in Lufkin, he completed a Master of Arts degree in Music from Stephen F. Austin State University where he also earned his Public School Administration Certificate.
Under his direction, the Lufkin High School Band was selected to represent Texas as the Honor Band at the Four States Bandmasters Association in 1982. His bands received First Division ratings and twenty UIL Sweepstakes Awards.
Mr. Bullock's bands were at the forefront in developing the present military style drill used by many of today's East Texas bands. Videos of Lufkin's marching drills are distributed nationwide and many of the innovations and creations used in those drills have become standard techniques for military marching bands.
Mr. Bullock retired from his teaching career in 1987, but has remained active in the music profession by helping numerous East Texas bands deal with the band director shortage. Mr. Bullock has earned several awards over the years. In 1994 he was named by the Gamma Phi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi as inductee into the Stephen F. Austin University Band Director Hall of Fame. He is past president of the TBA and received a Lifetime Meritorious Achievement Award in 2000 and Bandmaster of the Year in 2002. Also, he is a charter member and past president of the National Association of Military Marching Bands, a charter member of the TMAA and a member of Phi Beta Mu. Mr. Bullock presently serves as Executive Secretary and Contest Director for UIL Region 21 and has been an Area UIL Marching Contest Director since its recent formation by the league.
Joe Ashbrook
Joe Ashbrook
Mr. Ashbrook attended Henrietta High School in Henrietta, TX where he was an Honor Student, president of the Student Council for 2 years, and Drum Major of the state marching band champion, Bearcat Marching Band. Active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Football, Basketball and Track, Ashbrook had a very diverse curriculum in high school.
Attending college on a music and academic scholarship, Ashbrook attended Stephen F. Austin State University where he was consistently named to the University Dean's Honors List, maintained a 3.89 GPA over 4 years, and was the head drum major of the SFA Lumberjack Marching Band for 2 years. Graduating with honors in 1988 with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education, Ashbrook was hired as the director of bands for the Colorado City ISD in 1988, and the head director at Colorado MS. Ashbrook was hired the next year by Scott Mason and the Crane Independent School District as the assistant director of the Crane HS Band.
While in Crane, TX, the bands at Crane ISD were state and nationally ranked for quality with the Crane HS band placing 2nd in the state marching contest and winning the state champion Honor Band competition.
In 1990 Ashbrook took the job as head director of the Sundown Middle School band program and assistant director of the High School band in Sundown, TX. Under his leadership, the Sundown MS bands attended UIL competition for the first time and received all superior 1st division ratings. While in Sundown, the HS band won the Texas State Marching Band contest 2 times, and was chosen to represent Texas in the National 4th of July Independence Day Parades in New York and Washington DC. The Sundown Band won the overall outstanding band award for the Washington DC parade, and was invited to and performed at the White House and at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
In 1990-1991, Ashbrook completed the Masters of Music degree at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM. The Spring of 1991 Coppell ISD hired Ashbrook as the associate director of the Coppell HS Band. At that time numbering only 120 students, the Coppell Band was posed and ready for explosive growth and distinction of excellence under the leadership of Scott Mason and Joel Ashbrook. Mason and Ashbrook nurtured the Coppell Band program and increased its size to over 260 in only 2 years, consistently placing in the top 5 bands of the state of Texas in marching and taking top honors as the State Champion Texas 4-A Honor Band in 1997-1998.
The Coppell HS Band has a 17 year tradition of excellence and is known as one of the top band programs in the United States.
Ashbrook left education in 1999 for 3 years to work selling off-shore oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Missing the teaching profession, Ashbrook returned to Coppell In 2002 to begin as the Head Director of Bands at Coppell MS North. The North Band Program has grown in size from 200 students in 2002 to over 320 students today. The North Bands have become known locally, state-wide and nationally as one of the finest MS band programs in the country.
Ashbrook continues to teach at Coppell MS North and assist at the HS with the Marching Band.
Ashbrook is also continuing his education to complete a PhD in Education Administration from the University of North Texas.
