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Dear Friends:My name is Roger Maxwell, composer of "Fourteen Weeks to a Better Band." Because I have always considered myself to be a poor reader of music, I have dedicated my music career to writing material which will help students overcome reading barriers. Our research underscores the need for such materials which will, in turn, help students to better understand the language of music.
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Overview:
The format found in "Fourteen Weeks to a Better Band" allows students to concentrate their learning to one rhythmic figure per week. (A rhythmic figure can be defined as either two eighth notes or a dotted eighth followed by a sixteen or four sixteenth notes etc.) The results of our research study in which 27 Iowa high school bands participated, found 18 bands using "Fourteen Weeks" being able to reduce their reading errors by 74% in seven weeks. The nine bands not using "Fourteen Weeks" reduced their errors by 21% during the same period. The study confirms that students are not confident in knowing how to interpret and play a variety of rhythmic figures including dotted quarters followed by an eighth, eighth triplets, eighth followed by two sixteenths, etc. I invite you to read the Research Results.
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