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Welcome to Band Director’s Guide: A collection of books, interviews and resources for the band director who never stops learning.
Books: A Band Director’s Guide to Everything Trombone and A Band Director’s Guide to Everything Tuba are both available on Kindle, Audible and as PDFs through Gumroad.
Blog: The brand new Band Director’s Guide blog kicks off with 45 quotes from Dr. Mallory Thompson, Director of Bands at Northwestern University, from a recent conducting symposium.
Instrument Pages: YouTube playlists, interviews and links to resources around the web by instrument. So far there are pages for trombone and tuba with more to follow!
Recent Posts from the Band Director’s Guide Blog:
A Band Director’s Guide to Everything Tuba is now available on Audible!
Don’t miss interviews with Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Sam Pilafian and Pat Sheridan plus a bonus chapter and lots of off-script commentary that’s exclusive to the audiobook version!
What Band Directors Are Saying About the Band Director’s Guide Series:
"Andrew Hitz’s Band Director’s Guide to Everything Tuba is a must read for band directors of all experience levels working with every age of student. Even the most experienced educators will find the text pedagogically groundbreaking…challenging some of our most basic assumptions and forcing us to approach our teaching in ways different than the way we were taught. This valuable resource demystifies the tuba in a way that no instrumental methods course could hope to approach and I look forward to reading future volumes in this outstanding series."
—Chip de Stefano, Director of Bands at McCracken Middle School and Member of the NBA Board of Directors