If you are worried about contest for your band….Stop to read this….

Get the Emergency Kit for use right now while supplies last. We only print a limited supply each year and they are almost gone.

Only available directly from David Herring Music, not available through music stores.

The Intelligent Band Director’s Emergency Break Glass Band Sightreading Contest Readiness Kit includes tunes for level 1-4 (3 unique tunes each level) that have been carefully crafted to emulate the music that you will see in the actual contest room. These are not copies of any future or previous contest tune, but unique practice pieces that emulate the structure and styles used at contest. These tunes have been crafted over the course of years to emulate types of music and specific issues that might throw your band during contest. We feel it can be extraordinarily effective when used as practice pieces in the immediate prep for contest. Share this with your band as you place the music in front of them. Build their confidence and yours.

If you want just the Sightreading Emergency kit, it’s just $149.00. Contact me right now, as we have a limited quantity on hand for immediate shipping at contact@sightreadingforband.com

Are you operating under an organized plug and play plan for your sightreading year round?

Discover a NEW way to operate a stress free, progressive and successful sightreading program that can change your life.

It’s the David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders series. Available directly from us in UIL Level One, Two and Three, ready to ship (contact@sightreadingforband.com) or from Penders or JW Pepper.

Click here for more information on each level

You Know it’s time for a change in your Band room, so don’t waste any more time struggling, get the system today that will change your life. David Herring Music Sightreading Skillbuilders. We’ve done the work for you.

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.