Be honest…. Is this what your plan looks like?

Having an organized plan is the first key to be efficient, which is is the first stepping stone to managing your time, getting more done and spending more of your time doing the things you want to do, not what you HAVE to do.

Everyone has a plan. Some are bad plans, but everyone has a plan. If your plan for sightreading feels like the photo above then you probably don’t have the best plan.

If you are moving through stacks or files of paper and constantly trying to find a piece of music to practice keyminders, or sightread a song and struggling to find something that is at the level of your players (not to advanced, or to easy then you need to evaluate your plan.

Just think of how much time this is taking you, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.

You should add it up.

When I teach time management one of the things I teach is a time journal. You’ll be shocked at how much of it you waste.

For your band, I can tell you that the most efficient system available for sightreading instruction is the David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders.

It is an organized step by step system, done for you designed note for note to cover the UIL standards.

Just get your copy and open the book, go in order and your band is ready for contest.

Check out Level One by clicking HERE

Check out Level Two by clicking HERE

Check out Level Three by clicking HERE

Bound Directors score and all instrument parts on disk for you to print as many copies as you need are available now. We accept credit cards, checks, and school P.O. numbers. Contact us at 501-762-6620 or email contact@sightreadingforband.com

Clear the clutter and allow us to help you get organized.

David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders Systems are also available at Pender’s Music, JW Pepper, and RBC Music

About David Herring

A native Arkansan, I began piano study at age eight and the trombone at age12 in the Lake Hamilton Public Schools, graduating in 1988. Outstanding achievements of those years include winning both the Fort Smith Young Artists Competition, sponsored by the Ft. Smith Symphony, and Performance highlights include soloing with the Ft. Smith Symphony, the Hot Springs Community Band and being a member of the Hot Springs Brass Quintet.

Undergraduate study was at Henderson State University, studying with Dr. Wesley Branstine, where I received a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance. During this period, I won the Northeast Arkansas Symphony Competition, soloing with both the Northeast Arkansas Symphony as well the HSU symphonic band, and began composing and arranging for small ensembles.

Subsequently, while performing with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra as 2nd trombone, I soloed with Little Rock Wind Symphony and presented a guest recital for the University of Central Arkansas. Living in Hot Springs, AR, home of a U.S. National Park, I also became active performing and arranging for Hot Springs theatrical productions.

Postgraduate work at the University of Illinois, studying with Elliot Chasanov, led to a Master of Music in Performance in 1996. Highlights of 95-96 included more serious composition and arranging with “Visions of A Bored Businessman” for eight-part trombone ensemble premiering in 1995 followed by a performance at the 1996 International Trombone Workshop.

Beginning the fall of 1996, I began working as a private instructor for the Plano & Frisco, TX, ISDs, performed with the Slideshow Trombone Ensemble of Dallas, TX and became more active as a composer with several works receiving premieres in the subsequent ten years. Some of these include; “Bass Trombone Sonata #1”, performed by Michael McLemore, Yaxley Award Winner, in 1997; “Tenor Trombone Sonata #1”, performing and arranging for regular Hot Springs productions Tony Baker, Associate Professor of Trombone, University of North Texas, in 1998; “Atlanta for trumpet & piano” & “Cerberus for Trumpet & Band”, Michelle Kaminski, Moscow International Trumpet Competition Winner, in 1999 & 2000; and “Fantasy for Trombone”, Keith Jackson, Professor of Trombone, West Virginia University, in 2006. Premiered band works include “The Cricket, 2001” performed by the Staley Middle School Band and “Mythos III, “The Wind and the Wisp”, 2002” performed by the Frisco High School Band.

Most recently, while serving as a band director in the Dallas Metroplex, I have focused upon exercise studies Such as the “Sightreading Skillbuilders” series, marching shows and concert band works.

In addition to composing, I am currently the Band Director at Shepton High School in Plano ISD.

Who is this Waco guy anyway?

Yes, Waco is my “real name”. To avoid confusion with all our friends down in Texas, I often tag correspondence with (the person, not the city), which may even be more confusing.

I am the business side of David Herring Music.

David and I have been friends for well over 30 years now, and I am honored to be working with such an amazing and talented man.

I have been running and owning various businesses since I was 22 years old. My longest business is called The Photo Finishers and we just celebrated our 20th Anniversary. I’m the guy who makes sure your orders gets filled and the bills are paid. So if you hear my voice on the answering machine, that’s normal.

I look forward to working with you, and getting our sightreading materials in your hands. I have been going to conventions and talking on the phone with our clients for years, and I can honestly with no hesitation say that I have never had anyone tell me anything but fantastic things about these programs. They are the real deal.