Righteous Rehearsal Etiquette
Striking the Snarky Snare
Deafening Drums and Twinkly Toys
Majestic Mallets and More
Prestigious Percussion Students
100
What you do with the snare drum when you are not playing it.
What is turn the snares off
100
Another word for the closed roll.
What is a buzz roll
100
The best way to muffle crash cymbals.
What is bringing them into your body
100
The instrument that you can play with brass mallets.
What is the orchestra bells (or glockenspiel)
100
Kristen's percussion instrument of choice.
What is the marimba (or mallet instruments)
200
How your music stand should be positioned when playing any percussion instrument.
What is positioned so that you can see the conductor
200
The correct height for your snare drum while playing.
What is where your pinky finger rests when the thumb is in your belly button.
200
The tambourine technique used for soft passages.
What is the fingers near the edge (duck face)
200
The two types of mallets that can be used to play the chimes.
What are rawhide and plastic mallets.
200
The person with the coolest jacket in the percussion section.
What is Trey
300
What you should be doing when you first walk into a band rehearsal (before rehearsal gets started)
What is getting your music out, warming up, getting instruments ready, etc.
300
Used to tune a snare drum to different pitches.
What is a drum key
300
When rolling on this instrument, it is important to put the beaters right above and below the center.
What is the bass drum
300
Three variations to playing scales on a mallet instrument.
What are arpeggios, thirds, and octave rolls.
300
The only way Sam can play the ending of the Fiddles piece in band.
What is with the magical sparkly sticks
400
The best way to learn your band music.
What is practicing!
400
The correct snare drum stick grip (demonstrate).
What is hold the stick with your first finger and thumb, other fingers wrapped around the stick lightly
400
The part of the triangle that produces the most overtones.
What is the bottom
400
The scale that has six flats in the key signature (and name all of these flats).
What is the G-flat scale (Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb, Db, Eb)
400
The type of piece that Ryan hates playing in jazz.
What is the ballad
500
What you should do when the conductor cuts the band off to fix an error during rehearsal.
What is stop playing and listen intently!
500
The five different types/groups of snare drum rudiments.
What are rolls, paradiddles, flams, drags/ruffs, and ratamacues
500
A timpani technique not usually encouraged but can be used for visual enhancement during solos.
What is cross-sticking
500
The best way to play a chromatic scale with friends.
What is line up all of the mallet instruments in a row and play, running from the last instrument to the first instrument.
500
The name and composer of our amazing percussion ensemble piece at cabaret night!
What is Collisions by Jared Spears
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