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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.
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.
The book contains a Foreword by Tom Miller, and the following chapters:
1. What is Pan?
2. Purchasing Instruments for Your Steel Band
3. The Five Most Common Instrument Types
4. Developing Your Steel Band’s Instrumentation
5. Personnel
6. Repertoire
7. Basic Pan Technique
8. The Engine Room
9. Rehearsals and Performances
Reviews:
“...sure to be a vital resource to those starting new pan programs...” -- Gary Gibson, SeaNote Productions
“...an important resource for the entire steel band community...” -- Dr. Ellie Mannette
“The book presents proven methods that...will improve and strengthen any Steel Band program.” -- Mat Britain, Vanderbilt University
“This book is like having your own steel pan program mentor...” -- Phil Hawkins
“Tanner’s obvious passion to promote the steel band as an art form and not just a simple novelty is most satisfying.” -- Liam Teague