STME 671 Teaching Woodwinds

3 credits 45 hours
600 level graduate course

The Woodwind Instrument Technique Lab is designed for band directors to hone their technical and pedagogical skills on woodwind instruments. Students will learn elements of proper embouchure, breathing, articulation, reed preparation and use, as well as technical facility and details specific to instruments in the woodwind family. This course will allow students to deepen their skills and knowledge beyond their primary instruments to benefit their teaching and instruction in their classrooms, lessons, and band programs. Students will be involved in direct instruction on specific instruments daily, All students in the class, regardless of their primary instrument, will be playing instruments from the woodwind family. These will include: flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon. Instruments, mouthpieces and reeds will be provided for students during the course.

This course may not be audited.