Woodwinds
Your instruments are called "woodwinds" because they were made out of this.
What is wood?
The metal that a trumpet, trombone, french horn, and tuba are made out of.
What is brass?
The reason your instrument is called "percussion."
What is hitting, shaking, or scraping it to produce a sound?
These are the families of instruments in a band.
What is woodwind, brass and percussion?
Name 2 components of good posture.
What is feet flat on the floor, tall and straight back and not using the back of your chair?
The names of 4 woodwinds.
What is flute clarinet (Bb, alto or bass) oboe bassoon recorder saxophone (alto, tenor or bass) piccolo english horn?
There are six brass instruments commonly used in the band. Name 4.
What is the trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, sousaphone.
These are percussion instruments. Name 4.
What is the snare drum, bass drum, xylophone, bells, triangle, woodblock, tambourine, cymbals, timpani?
This band plays at football and basketball games.
What is a pep band?
When you take a good, deep breath to play your instrument, it is wrong to use this part of your body.
What is your shoulders? They should remain fairly still. You should be using your diaphragm muscle in your belly area.
By doing this the pitch of a woodwind instrument is changed.
What is covering different holes on the instrument?
There are 4 different ways of changing pitch on a brass instrument. Name two of them.
What is by pushing valves, changing the slide position, changing the air speed, or changing the lip position.
Percussion instruments are divided into these 2 categories.
What is pitched (bells, xylophones) and non-pitched (snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, triangle)?
This is necessary to produce a good, steady tone on a wind instrument.
What is blow a little bit of air very fast?
This is the difference between a concert band and an orchestra.
What is the string family?
When you cover different holes on a woodwind instrument it causes this to change the pitch.
What is changing the length of the column of air going through the instrument? (Short air column=high note. Long air column=low note.)
Brass instruments have 3 main parts. Name them.
What is mouthpiece, tubing/valves, bell?
The name of the stick used to play pitched percussion instruments is called this.
What is a mallet?
This is the band on the field during halftime at a football game.
What is a marching band?
Musical notation is written on this.
What is a staff?
This woodwind is the oldest woodwind instrument in the world to play notes.
What is the flute?
Earliest brass instruments were used for two reasons. Name one of those reasons.
What is used in the military? What is used for communication during hunting?
This type of drum is often called the kettledrum.
What is the timpani?
The best class to be involved in all the way through your 12th grade in Berean.
What is band? Of course!
How many eighth notes does it take to equal a whole note?
What is eight?