The Summerglen Files

Music, Creativity, and Everyday Life at Summerglen Music in Raleigh, NC

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Entries from February 2010

Tuesday Trombone Tips #8 – Strengthening Your Sightreading

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

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Tags: Practice Tips · Trombones · videos

Andrew’s Teaching a Drumset Workshop…and Taking Your Questions!

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Happy Monday, Summerglen friends! We’ve been insanely busy over here at the ‘glen. I’ve been working hard on setting up another after-school elementary band and some creativity workshops for businesspeople, and Andrew has been out playing solo percussion shows! (Pics of his latest show will be up within the next couple of days!) But the [...]

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Tags: music education · Summerglen News

Tuesday Trombone Tips #7 – Awesome Practice Accessories

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

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Andrew’s Awesome Compositions!

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

2010 has been the year of the solo percussionist here at Summerglen. While I’ve been holing up in my studio playing the David concerto and making trombone tips videos, Andrew has been composing and gigging up a storm! Here are some videos of Andrew performing two of his own compositions: one for snare drum, and [...]

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Tags: Live Music · videos

Tuesday Trombone Tips #6 – Trombone Practice Essentials

February 10th, 2010 · No Comments

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Tuesday Trombone Tips #5 – Practice Time

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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Cool Website Alert: Entrepreneur the Arts

February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Not much is going on here in Raleigh, because many of our roads are still icy–so I’ve been using the snow-induced down time to explore some great musical & arts-centered websites. This one, Entrepreneur the Arts is one of the most exciting sites I’ve found for working artists. It’s packed with resources, articles, and business [...]

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Tags: music business