Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned. ~ Emily Dickinson 
Mr. Ahrens teaches band & choir at Bear River High School in Grass Valley, CA.
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By David Ahrens, on August 22nd, 2010%
Summer Professional Development Projects
Each Summer I try to, as a professional development project, take on a secondary instrument and improve my abilities on it. (My primary instrument is the horn). Back in college, I took the basic pedagogy courses for brass, woodwind, string, and percussion instruments. I learned to . . . → Read More: Ever-Improving Chops on Secondary Instruments
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