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TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Mandy Burton
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TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOLMandy 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!
AIR!
POSTURE! BREATHING!
Group!4!!
Piccolo!!
Flute!!!!!!!!Oboe!
!
Group!3!!
Trumpet!!
Horn!
Group!2!!
Trombone!!
Euphonium!
Group!1!!
Tuba!
Tenor!Sax!
Alto!Sax! Clarinet!
Bassoon!
Bari!Sax! Bass!Clarinet!
The!foundation!of!sound!is…!
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
