Steel Band Game Plan: Strategies for Starting, Building, and Maintaining Your Pan Program

By Chris Tanner

The Steel Band Game Plan: Strategies for Starting, Building, and Maintaining Your Pan Program, the first comprehensive resource devoted to steel band pedagogy, is a must-have for anyone involved in the steel band idiom today. Written primarily for educators, The Steel Band Game Plan addresses a wide variety of topics, including instrumentation, personnel, basic pan technique, repertoire, and rehearsal strategies.

This informative text addresses a sore need among the community of pan: the need for a thorough treatment of topics regarding the successful implementation and development of a steel band program. The style is user-friendly, and anyone who desires to start a steel band program, or who is currently directing one, will find it accessible and enlightening. It's a one-stop resource for a wide variety of information-from guidelines on major decisions such as what instruments to purchase, to helpful tips for getting the most out of your rehearsals. Simply put, The Steel Band Game Plan is a book that no steel band director can afford to be without.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578865409
• ISBN13: 9781578865406
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"