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Recruiting with Electric Instruments

Recruiting with Electric Instruments. Angela Ammerman, Annandale High School Fairfax County Public Schools. What is this really about?. building your orchestra building support for your program Parents, students, families, friends Community stakeholders

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Recruiting with Electric Instruments

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  1. Recruiting with Electric Instruments Angela Ammerman, Annandale High School Fairfax County Public Schools

  2. What is this really about? • building your orchestra • building support for your program • Parents, students, families, friends • Community stakeholders • School and county/district administration

  3. Recruiting 101 • Audience participation • “Give ‘Em What they want!” – Fats Waller • Make Classroom management fun • Bring along performers! • Decide your electric usage and be honest • Phrases to say during recruiting: “Picture yourself…”

  4. Public relations: you can do it too • Video/Youtube • Facebook • Twitter • Local Newspapers • School newspapers

  5. Audience participation • Sing, sing a song • “Fiddle Faddle” • Reel ‘em in • Petting Zoo

  6. Give ‘em what they want • Pop music • Movement • Percussion • Rockstarsinging • Story-Telling - Script

  7. Don’t forget the cool factor! • electric techniques • Wammy pedal • Distortion • Sustain • Reverb • echo • School t-shirts • Have extras for prizes • Let them show off • “autograph signing”

  8. Superstar strings

  9. Make classroom management fun • Fawn over the positive • Quickly address the negative • Peer into the future for both • Don’t be afraid to joke around

  10. Bring along performers! • Everyone likes free samples • Show your diversity • Give students a role model • All students can have a place in orchestra

  11. Truthful recruiting • Be honest about your program (a.k.a. truth in lending) • Don’t make yourself a lemon by destroying your credibility • Attract the students you want • Make a goal! Tell students how many recruits you need! Keep them posted on their role in it! • Discuss Behavior – what is an orchestra student??? • Are you crazy?!?! ADMIT IT! • What are your pet peeves?

  12. Recruiting through the year • Invite your feeder schools to every concert! • Start an “area orchestra” • Put a soloist on an electric instrument! • Send representatives to your feeder concerts

  13. THANK YOU! • QUESTIONS???

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