Beginning Band Brass Presentation
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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, UM
BEGINNING BAND:
STRATEGIES FOR ALL AGES
Brass Instruments Pedagogy
Erich Rivero
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 to
“SELL” THE INSTRUMENTS
Discuss “college” instruments
Demonstrate instruments “teacher or advanced students” or show via
internet resource such as YouTube
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 4
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 Cushions
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.
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 Shine
Silver instruments use Nu Finish Liquid Car Polish
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
of 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 Diagram
RESOURCES
Glades Band Website www.wix.com/gladesband/miami
Band Handbook
Scale Sheet
Instrument rental Contract
The Art of Brass Playing by Phil Farkas
Herbert L. Clarke Technical Studies
Arban’s Book for Trumpet and trombone Pg 42 #17 Slurs
Band4me.org
http://band4me.org/resources.html
Erich Rivero’s email address: [email protected]