Episodes

  • Ep. #006 Part 2 Willie Murillo AS YOU GO, SO DO THEY | How to be Inspired | ThePracticeApp

    Ep. #006 Part 2 Willie Murillo AS YOU GO, SO DO THEY | How to be Inspired | ThePracticeApp
    Feb 16 2021

    Having a great artist teach and perform with your bands can be daunting, scary, and intimidating, but our guest Willie Murillo makes approaching professional musicians easy! In this episode, Willie explains "AS YOU DO, SO DO THEY". We also talk about Inspiration. It is not the WHAT, but the HOW. Lastly, you can hear Willie's deep dive into creating ThePracticeApp.io business from scratch, and an idea to launch! You should see the amazing quality lessons he has uploaded on the site!!!
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    41 mins
  • Ep. #006 Part 1 Willie Murillo | 3 Tips For Band Directors And Music Education Majors, And Bridging The Gap With Guest Artists

    Ep. #006 Part 1 Willie Murillo | 3 Tips For Band Directors And Music Education Majors, And Bridging The Gap With Guest Artists
    Aug 11 2020

    Having a guest artist teach and perform with your bands can be daunting, but our guest makes approaching professional musicians easy! As a Grammy Award Winner, LA studio musician, producer, writer, and educator, Trumpet player Willie Murillo packs a powerful interview! Enjoy episode #006 Pt.1/2.

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    42 mins
  • Ep. #005 Tony Mazzaferro | How To Structure Your Rehearsal Process, How Teaching Philosophies Change, and 2-Year vs. 4-Year Music Schools

    Ep. #005 Tony Mazzaferro | How To Structure Your Rehearsal Process, How Teaching Philosophies Change, and 2-Year vs. 4-Year Music Schools
    Jul 30 2020

    Hey everyone, and welcome to episode number 5 of the Band Director Blueprint Podcast! My name is Taylor Smith, with co-host Eric Villalobos. We appreciate you for joining us today. For our listeners that are new to the community, the Band Director Blueprint podcast is a place for current and future music educators to contribute their thoughts on building and developing music programs, new teaching techniques, and just good teaching all together! Today’s guest is Dr. Tony Mazzaferro. We discussed how to structure your rehearsal process, how teaching philosophies change, and what high school students should know about 2-year vs. 4-year music schools. Without further ado, Dr. Tony Mazzaferro!
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    46 mins
  • Burdett Interview FINAL AUDIO

    Burdett Interview FINAL AUDIO
    Jul 23 2020
    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Ep. 003 Building A Positive Culture and Understanding The Difference Between Heroes and Teachers: Justin Padilla

    Ep. 003 Building A Positive Culture and Understanding The Difference Between Heroes and Teachers: Justin Padilla
    Jul 14 2020

    Hey everyone, and welcome to Episode number 3 of the Band Director Blueprint Podcast! My name is Taylor Smith, with co-host Eric Villalobos. We appreciate you for joining us today. For our listeners that are new to the community, the Band Director Blueprint podcast is a place for current and future music educators to contribute their thoughts on building and developing music programs, new teaching techniques, and just good teaching all together!

    Todays guest is a mentor of mine, a colleague and more importantly I am happy to call him my good friend. In our discussion today, he tells his story of the difference between when to be a hero and when to be a teacher. We go over his transition from middle school to high school, and how he relates to his students to build culture within his programs. For the past 15 years Justin has transformed music programs throughout Orange County and Long Beach into thriving, positive, classroom environments. Acknowledged as Teacher of the Year in 2012 at Oak Middle School, 2014 Los Alamitos District Teacher of the Year, the 2014 Orange County Music and Arts Administrators Secondary Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year, and 2016 Orange County Music and Arts Music Educator of Excellence. His middle and high school jazz ensembles have competed at Monterey Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival, and the Next Generation Jazz Festival. Being a VIP manager at a swanky night club, and a 3 stripe blue belt in Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Justin continues to inspire and motivate his students with modern and engaging teaching techniques and philosophies.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ep. 002 Putting People First: Eric Villalobos

    Ep. 002 Putting People First: Eric Villalobos
    Jul 8 2020

    Hey everyone, and welcome to episode number 2 of the Band Director Blueprint Podcast! My name is Taylor Smith. I appreciate you for joining me today. For our listeners that are new to the community, the Band Director Blueprint podcast is a place for current and future music educators to contribute their thoughts on building and developing music programs, new teaching techniques, and just good teaching all together!

    Today’s guest is Director of Bands at Valley Christian High School, and a Tuba player in 300th Army band. This is a special episode so listen all the way to the end for our announcement.

    Without further ado, Eric Villalobos!
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    46 mins
  • Fundraising: Rudy Silva | Band Director Blueprint

    Fundraising: Rudy Silva | Band Director Blueprint
    May 27 2018

    Taylor asks this episodes guest about fundraising techniques and tactics.

    Find out how our guest Rudy Silva, "started from scratch" with his middle school music program. Rudy discusses how fundraising was an instrumental part of his success early on. Learn what kinds of fundraising actually is worth the time and effort by parents and students. What steps should you take to schedule a restaurant fundraiser for your program? What should you consider before scheduling your restaurant night and learn what not to do? Have you ever heard of “GoFundMe”? How about “DonorsChoose”? Rudy shares his tactics and successes with this new style of crowdsourced fundraising for your band program.    What’s your favorite fundraiser?

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    20 mins