● Stringed instruments – For more casual and modern genres of music the guitar, ukulele and banjo are good choices for the retiree. These instruments can give strong supporting accompaniment to rock, blues, folk and country jam sessions, sing-alongs and family gatherings. With a bit of instruction on some stringed instruments you can learn basic chords and rhythms in fairly short order and probably pick-up and entertain a gathering sooner than you think.
For classical and some other elements of modern music the orchestral string family, including violin, viola, cello and double bass is the popular choice of instrument. Be mindful though that more intense instruction is needed to master the posture, motor skills and technical aspects of
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Percussion is the heartbeat or backbone of any musical group whether it is providing compelling rhythm to accompany singing, or setting the mood and tempo of a band, orchestra or ensemble.
● Brass instruments are a good choice for men who will be intrigued by the feature of having to purse the lips and position the tongue on the mouthpiece and puff the cheeks to get the blazing, powerful sound of brass. The range of brass instruments include the trumpet, trombone, cornet, tuba and horns.
Many teachers of brass recommend potential players try different instruments to see which feels most comfortable to them. Smaller instruments are sometimes recommended for beginners, as these take less arm strength to hold up to your mouth for extended periods of time.
Whether showcased through Afro-Caribbean music forms like the Ska, Reggae, Calypso and Soca, through military and marching band pageantry or through the jazzy swing of the big band, the sound of brass is bold and distinctive. So take up the challenge of learning to play a brass instrument, but be careful to practice quietly to avoid disturbing the
Early Jazz bands consisted of cornets, clarinets, trombones, drums, and sometimes banjos, violins, and pianos. (Drowne 200) Jazz was similar to its precursor, Ragtime, because of its syncopated, accented, off-beat rhythms, but the two are also different. While Ragtime
Gideon’s trumpet is about Clarence Earl Gideon he gets accused of breaking and entering. When he was going on trial he didn 't get a lawyer so he had to defend himself. So he got sent to prison for five years. Then he wrote a letter to try to go back to trial and get a fair trial with a lawyer. Then he got a letter back that said he was going back to trial with a lawyer.
Music first started in America when it was brought by British Armies and later became a big part of America. One reason why America's bands became more advanced was achieving a wider range. Combining new instruments that were created, trombone, and French horns, a group of eight or more brass instruments, could cover a wider range from soprano to bass. Also, new horns could play melodic lines in any part of their range. Covering a wider range resulted in a better, unified, homogeneous sound.
The roots of trumpet in jazz go all the way back to the beginning of the birth of jazz. Their main role in jazz was to create and maintain the melody. During the beginning stages of jazz, up until the 30s, the trumpet was one of the most vital instruments to a jazz band. Buddy Bolden, for instance, was one of the first musicians who really exemplified the ideals of what trumpet playing does for a band (Bolden was more specifically a cornet player, but both instruments are quite similar and are often mistaken for one another, the only difference being in the tubing). He is commonly referred to as “the first important musician in jazz”.
While in the band, I played the trumpet. I chose the trumpet because It was a wonderful instrument and it was one of the easier instruments to learn to play. Trumpets come different ways and varieties that are built to play in different musical keys. The type of trumpet that I played was made to play in a B flat.
“The Trombone” is about a boy who loses and finds his trombone. When Jerry gets off the bus to go to his music school, he realizes his trombone is missing. Knowing that if he didn’t find it, his family would have to pay a big fee. In the end, his music teacher Nadine finds his trombone and brings it back to him.
One single activity that I am most proud of is my ability to contribute to the orchestra with my French Horn. As a vital part to the orchestra’s overall tone quality and melody, I play my French Horn proudly and powerfully. In marching band, I play powerful low notes to keep the band in rhythmic time and move the band along as a whole at a steady pace; in orchestra I play mellifluous melodies that gives songs its’ zest and vividness. Whether it be stolid, proud pieces such as Coast Guards or blissful, ecstatic songs such as Happy the horn finds its’ unique way to contribute. However, I have also sometimes overstepped my boundaries as a Horn player.
A marching band sectional rehearsal can be fun and still be productive. A section leader can play several games with his group to help improve issues specific to a saxophone player 's technique. Any activity that is part of a saxophone sectional should be specific to the instrument and help improve the player 's individual skill. Playing games unrelated to music should be avoided as they waste the band 's time. Scale Contests Have someone act as the time keeper.
Marching band is physically tiring as well. After only a practice, “more than 95 percent of surveyed band members reported muscle soreness or stiffness…” and “more than 38 percent said they had suffered an injury as a direct result of participating in marching band”. (ACSM news) If this does not prove that it is physically challenging to one’s body then think
Finally, marching band is physically exerting not only from the activity but also due to the conditions that a show is performed under these can make the performance even more challenging. For all of these reasons, marching band should be considered a
On the day of Sunday April 10th, I went to a jazz ensemble concert at the Trinity University Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. This hall was much larger than the previous performance I attended. My first impression of the group was that they were relaxed and comfortable. For instance, when the drummer winked the drummer gave when the director explained his switch from the trumpet to drums.
He rode the wagon and blew a tin horn. Though the horns' purpose wasn’t to make music, Louis found a way to create different sounds and play different tunes. At age eleven, Louis saw a brass cornet in the pawn shop window. The family he worked with lent him the money to purchase it.
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s “The Portable Phonograph” analyses how easily peace can be disrupted by greed. In the blink of an eye, peace can turn into destruction, war and chaos. It can all change because of one person's resistance to share with others. Everyone is greedy in some way, but some are more than others. It is in our blood to be greedy, we are wired to try to be better than one another and it is hard to resist.
His career spanned almost 50 years, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different jazz eras. The work of Louis Armstrong summed up the achievements of New Orleans jazz style and indicated the way to the later evolution of the music as a solo-oriented art form. The features of New Orleans jazz were collective improvisation and ensemble style. The organization of the New Orleans jazz was a small brass band. Trumpet or cornet, trombone, clarinet, two drums (snare drum and bass drum) were used as the primary instruments and marching band music, ragtime, blues had been played a lot.