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Helping other Music Educators learn from our mistakes! No need to reinvent the wheel, Mike has been there and done that. Just ask Mike!
Mike Lunney spent 31 successful years as a head band director in the State of Texas, where his bands were consistently recognized as superior bands. Mike is still active as a clinician, mentor and adjudicator.
Derrick Killam has been involved in school music programs in the state of Texas since 1990 through music retail. Derrick has been a repair tech, shop foreman, Education Rep and currently is the Operations Manager for N-Tune Music and Sound, a NAMM Top 100 Dealer!
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Rehearsal Habits: We are what we repeatedly do!
How are your rehearsals going? Are they frustrating? Do you seem to never accomplish your goals?
Aristotle said, "Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
The author, Will Durant, expanded this thought when he said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
In this episode Derrick asks Mike to expand on these three thoughts from Jon Acuff, as they relate to rehearsal and doing the small things right.
"The are only three ways to improve your life (rehearsals):
1. Stop doing something.
2. Start doing something.
3. Get better at something you're already doing.
We complicate it because then we can blame the complications instead of ourselves, but it's actually very simple."
