Mike Sweeney — Hal Leonard's longtime composer and arranger for the educational band catalog — joins the show to talk about writing music for absolute beginners. The craft of an eight-bar example, the Indiana music-education pipeline he came up through, and the editorial decisions that shape every page of the EE Book 1 your students are working out of right now
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