TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Mandy Burton If you are not willing to look - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Mandy Burton

“ If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great will ever happen to you. -Dr. Gregory House

BUT FIRST, TONE ➤ Intonation ➤ Blend ➤ Balance

BREATHING ➤ Start with students, before horns ➤ Continue to practice away from horns, as well as with ➤ Posture ➤ Daily check ➤ Stand height ➤ Exercises/Games ➤ Breathing Gym ➤ Paper tricks

FIRST SOUNDS ➤ “Sound before Sight” ➤ No books ➤ Guests ➤ YouTube ➤ Demonstrate ➤ Empathy ➤ Tessitura ➤ Aural matching

CHARACTERISTIC TONE ➤ Aiming without a target ➤ “Music Mondays” ➤ Home Helper ➤ Demonstrating ➤ Mouthpieces ➤ Embouchure ➤ Vowels/Tongue position ➤ Tools ➤ Repetition

BALANCE & BLEND ➤ Teach blend right away! ➤ Team sport ➤ “Listen louder than you play” ➤ Then balance ➤ Pyramid or pear ➤ Low to high, but also dark to bright ➤ Teach it wrong! ➤ Balance in dynamic changes

Pyramid ! of ! Sound ! Group ! 4 ! ! Piccolo ! ! Flute !!!!!!!! Oboe ! ! Group ! 3 ! ! Trumpet ! Alto ! Sax ! Clarinet ! ! Horn ! Group ! 2 ! ! Trombone ! Tenor ! Sax ! Bassoon ! ! Euphonium ! Group ! 1 ! Bari ! Sax ! Bass ! Clarinet ! ! Tuba ! The ! foundation ! of ! sound ! is… ! AIR ! POSTURE ! BREATHING ! Open ! airway ! & ! syllable !

CONSISTENCY & CONCEPTUAL TEACHING ➤ Addressing does not always mean fixing! ➤ Warm-ups ➤ KISS ➤ Buzzing, singing ➤ Conceptual Teaching ➤ Chicken vs. Egg

ARTICULATIONS ➤ Right away ➤ Before books ➤ Singing, air ➤ On mouthpieces, then instruments ➤ Call & Response ➤ Varied articulations ➤ Singing syllables ➤ Unison, single pitch ➤ Break it down

“ Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. -Igor Stravinsky