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 Mr. Ahrens teaches band at Bear River High School in Grass Valley, CA.  @MrAhrens 
 MUSIC QUOTES:   www.davidahrens.us & Sound Education are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
 When you’re focused on how long you have to practice, it can become torturous and boring – certainly not musical. Hitz suggested creating a journal that records what is practiced instead of minutes. When you practice because it’s fun and you love making music, time flies by and is spent more effectively. So for this year, I have created a new form – a Weekly Practice Journal. . . . → Read More: Weekly Practice Journal Teaching music in the public schools of California, we really need to be creative in order to overcome the woes caused by those Keystone Klods in the Sacramento state house. We don’t have the funding to travel to contests, purchase music, or repair instruments. Certainly new purchases are beyond our reach if we were to solely . . . → Read More: Instrument Angels – Embracing Community Generosity in the eBay Age |
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"I shall seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely." - Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801 |
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