At the Colorado Bandmaster’s Conference on July 16, 2021 Drew had the pleasure to sit down with Professional Music Educator Sean Marquis. Sean teaches band at Frontier Academy in Greeley, Colorado. This conversation occurred in the cafeteria of Lakewood High School during the lunch break while we were demonstrating the livestreaming rig at our booth. […]
New episode of Beyond the Stage, the Podcast that explores non-performing careers in music!
Episode 4 – Manufacturer Representative with Wes Kreitz (Part 2) In the interest of brevity the title of this episode calls Wes Kreitz a “Manufacturer Representative” but he does so much more. Wes is the District Manager for the Western US for Yamaha, but more than that he is a School Services Representative. If you […]
New episode of Beyond the Stage, the Podcast that explores non-performing careers in music!
Episode 3 – Manufacturer Representative with Wes Kreitz (Part 1) In the interest of brevity the title of this episode calls Wes Kreitz a “Manufacturer Representative” but he does so much more. Wes is the District Manager for the Western US for Yamaha, but more than that he is a School Services Representative. If you […]
Podcasting Rigs are Complicated, Right? Wrong!
Take a peek behind the curtain at the gear Drew uses to record Beyond the Stage. He walks you through the thought process behind the equipment and shows you how a great rig can be super portable and easy to use without needing a dedicated recording studio.
The McNeal Performing Arts Center Has a New Sound System!
The McNeal Performing Arts Center at Fort Collins High School has undergone a complete upgrade of the decades old house sound system and The Podcasting Store/Boomer Music is proud to have been entrusted to install it! MacKenzie Smith, Braden Bruntzel, and Drew Holmes discuss the problems, pitfalls, and solutions that took this project from dream […]
We Did Our First Livestream! Here’s the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. In Podcast Form.
Have you ever wanted to livestream but were stopped from trying because you needed to buy expensive cameras and complicated software? That is no longer a problem. Ward, Braden, and Drew helped at High Plains School for their outdoor concert on May 18. Since this was the school’s only performance this year, Mrs. Lemons wanted […]
Does The Quality of Your Zoom Meetings Make People Think You’re Actually in Witness Protection?
Does the garbled audio and fuzzy video of your Zoom meetings make people wonder if you are actually in witness protection? Are you losing your audience because the way you present your content is getting in the way of your message? Drew can help. In this video he walks you through the thought process of […]
That’s It! I Give Up!
Sometimes no matter what obstacles we throw in our own way things just work out! Everything goes smoothly and you wonder how anything could ever have been difficult in the first place. This is not one of those times. Drew gives a peek behind the curtain of what went catastrophically wrong with a recent video […]
*Now* What’s Wrong?
There is no losing. There is winning and there is learning. And boy, has Drew been learning a lot lately! In this podcast he takes us through how the audio to a recent video got *completely* fouled up, what the process was to troubleshoot it, and what the (ridiculously) simple solution was all along. You […]
Making an Instructional Video Without a Crew Using Two iPhones
The Thought Process Behind This Video I felt like I had been focusing on The Podcasting Store and not doing enough with Boomer Music, so I wanted to make a quick video about something I’m extremely knowledgeable with: the trumpet. The number of times a kid comes into the store with “crunchy” valves that just […]