Presenters Malena Calle Southwood Middle School Miami Erich S Rivero Glades Middle School Miami Susie Lalama Frost School of Music UM Beginning band strategies for all ages ID: 692293
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Beginning band: strategies for all ages
Presenters:
Malena
Calle
-
Southwood
Middle School, Miami
Erich S.
Rivero
- Glades Middle School, Miami
Susie
Lalama
- Frost School of Music, UMSlide2
Beginning band: strategies for all ages
Brass Instruments Pedagogy
Erich
RiveroSlide3
First things to do
Take inventory of instruments
Make sure all instruments are in working condition
Set up instrumentation goals
Distribute advanced band instruments
Cover music notation and note recognition with beginners
Give background on instruments
Which musical families they belong toSlide4
“Sell” the instruments
Discuss “college” instruments
Demonstrate instruments “teacher or advanced students” or show via internet resource such as YouTubeSlide5
Set up instrument “petting zoo”
Instrument
fittings
Make sure to have a good disinfectant (
Mi
-T Mist-mouthpiece sanitizer)
Rate them on a scale of 1 to 5
After all instruments have been tried, students will rank their top 5 choices. Alternating between woodwind, brass, woodwind or brass, woodwind, brass.
Students may only select instruments they ranked either a 5 or 4Slide6
Demonstrate proper mouthpiece Placement
Beginning Brass Mouthpieces
Trumpet Bach 3C (if the student has bigger lips consider a bigger mouthpiece like a Bach 1 ½ C)
Trombone 12C , 6 ½ AL
Tuba Mouthpiece- Bach 24AW, Advanced-Warburton CV8,
Parantucci
PT88
French Horn Mouthpiece- Holton MDC, Intermediate/Advanced Stork C10, S14
& Warburton M12
For Students with braces
EZO Denture CushionsSlide7
Demonstrate proper embouchure
Embouchure placement
Trumpet 2/3 mouthpiece Upper and 1/3 Lower
Trombone Half and half
Horn Half and Half
Teeth must be level and open when playing. Often is the case that the player needs to extend the lower jaw so teeth may be even due to an over bite.
Embouchure Problems
For a student who has
bubbles in
the embouchure
. Have the student fill up mouth with air like a bubble. Have
him
play G on the staff. While playing G have
him
squeeze out all air so the skin is firm next to the teeth. No air pockets or bubbles. Have the student repeat this four times. Each time the student should close
his
eyes to feel the embouchure tighten. Then have the student play G and tell
him
to start with the embouchure like tight like
he
finished.
He
will no longer have any air pockets. Tell
him
to practice in front of a mirror to reinforce the concept.Slide8
Instrument maintenance
Valve oil for Brass Instruments Hetmans Piston No. 2 or Blue Juice
Trpt
, Bar., Horn For slides
Schilke
Slide Grease
Slide Grease
for Trombone Slides - Trombonetine Instrument Snake Instrument Bath-make sure to remove all felts from instrument.To ShineSilver instruments use Nu Finish Liquid Car PolishSlide9
articulations
Tonguing
Make sure all the students are saying “TAH”
The tongue should strike in a retrograde movement behind the upper teeth in the crevice between the teeth and the top roof of the mouth.
Slurring
The tongue must move up and down in the mouth.
When playing low notes the tongue must be on the bottom
o
f the mouth. The inverse is also true.Say the syllables: TAH EEH AWE EEH AWE EEH
When the tongue does not move the note seems to get stuck on one pitch and not move to the other pitch.
Tonguing DiagramSlide10
Resources
Glades
Band Website
www.wix.com/gladesband/miami
Band Handbook
Scale Sheet
Instrument rental Contract
The Art of Brass Playing by Phil
FarkasHerbert L. Clarke Technical Studies Arban’s Book for Trumpet and trombone Pg
42 #17 SlursBand4me.org http://band4me.org/resources.htmlErich Rivero’s email address: TPTLOCO@AOL.COM