Maine Motif Maine Motif May 2017 Issue 3 Volume I | Page 27

Standards and Evaluation
130 Little - Mike Blakeslee, clinician
We Will Blow Your Warm-up Up!
101 Neville - Tom Lizotte, clinician
Ensemble warm-ups can be uninspiring and a task to disposed of
quickly and unemotionally (think dentist appointment or Stepford
Wives). Or...these can be engaging, creative and a great opportunity
to build listening and technical skills.
In this session we will deconstruct the traditional warmup and
share some techniques that work, including, "Circle the Wagons -- a
scale primer)," "Numbers Game" (or Why John Cooper is My
Hero), "Tunes by Ear," "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the
Missing Rhythm; and "You, Too, Can Play Whole Tone Scales by
Ear.”
Auxiliary Percussion Lab
100 Neville - Dr. Stuart Marrs
Get the professional sound from your percussion section using the
right instruments with the right technique: tambourine, triangle,
and cymbals. Lab session: everyone will be able to try the
demonstrated techniques.
Proper Nutrition for Good Vocal Health: An Acquired
Taste
Jenness Lobby - David Myers, clinician
This session will present a compilation of research and data to help
provide singers and teachers with some answers to questions about
how foods and beverages we generally think of as "bad for the
voice" actually affect the vocal mechanism.
Music as a Second Language and Popular Music Education
110 Little - Scott Burstein, clinician
This session will focus on a new and unique approach to teaching
music: Music as a Second Language. MSL is a pedagogy that is
based off of Steven Krashen's Second Language Acquisition
methodology, modified by David Wish and incorporating ideas