Videos

Year in Review
Instrument Assembly, First Sounds, and Maintenance/Care
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TED talks about Music

Benjamin Zander: On Music and Passion
  • Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

Evelyn Glennie: How to Truly Listen
  • In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.

Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv
  • Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Matthew White: Gives the Euphonium a New Voice
  • The euphonium, with its sweet brass sound, is rarely heard outside of traditional brass bands. Cutting loose on the euph, prodigy Matthew White performs Nat McIntosh's hip-hop-inflected "The Warrior Comes Out to Play."

Bobby McFerrin: Hacks Your Brain with Music!
  • In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.

Stefon Harris: There Are No Mistakes on the Bandstand
  • What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don't react to them appropriately.
  • Video begins with an improv demonstration followed by his presentation at approximately 6:00.

Jeff Nelsen: Fearless Performance
  • World-renowned horn player, educator, and fearless performance coach Jeff Nelsen has an obvious and contagious passion for dynamic engagements. Jeff's pig-farming, opera-singing parents provided him with a wide palate of career choices and a diverse background from which to tell his story.
Great random music videos
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Awesome set of Playlists for every band instrument available here: https://sites.google.com/a/wautoma.k12.wi.us/parksideband/resources/professional-instrument-videos


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