BCSC BANDS

These are beginning videos to help you learn to set up and hold your instrument, and make the first musical sounds.

Flute

• Hands & Fingers

• Playing Position

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Oboe

• Reeds

• Hands & Fingers

• First Sounds

Bassoon

• Reeds

• Hands & Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

B-flat Clarinet

• Reeds

• Hands & Fingers:

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Bass Clarinet

• Reeds

• Holding the Instrument

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Alto Saxophone

• Reeds

• Hands & Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Tenor Saxophone

• Hands & Fingers

• Playing Position

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Baritone Saxophone

• Hands & Fingers

• Playing Position

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Trumpet

• Hands & Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

French Horn

• Holding the Instrument

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Trombone

• Hands & Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Baritone B.C.

• Right Hand Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Baritone T.C.

• Right Hand Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Tuba

• Right Hand Fingers

• Embouchure & First Sounds

Electric Bass

• Playing Position Sitting

• Playing Position Standing

Percussion

• Setting Up the Snare

• Holding the Sticks

Mallet Percussion

• Choosing & Holding Mallets

• Playing Position & Striking the Instrument

Maintain your instrument by cleaning the mouthpiece once a week.  Woodwinds: swab out each day you play.  Brass: Oil trumpet/euphonium valves and trombone slides twice a week; French horn every two weeks.  Move all tuning slides in/out each day you play; grease them if they become hard to move, or at least once a month.

Trumpet, or Euphonium: How to Oil Valves Tutorial.

French Horn: How to Oil Valves Tutorial.

Brass: How to Grease Tuning Slides for:

    Trumpet/Euphonium    Trombone    French Horn 

Brass: How to Clean the Mouthpiece Tutorial. 

Trombone: How to Oil the Hand Slide Tutorial.

Flute: How to Clean Tutorial.

Flute: Replace the Silver Protection Strip in your case every 6 months.

Sax/Clarinet: How to Clean the Mouthpiece Tutorial.

Sax/Clarinet: Always use a Mouthpiece Cushion on your mouthpiece.

Clarinet: How to Swab Out the Clarinet Tutorial.

Saxophone: How to Swab Out the Sax Tutorial.

Copy and paste links:

Conga Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11quy4AMt0I

*Use the "open" tone technique

Bongo Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvoym1Fw6iY

*Use the "open" tone tequnique on the large drum and the "edge" tone on the high drum.  The muted edge tone is only used if you see a + above the note.

Djembe lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYQeh5FX-LM

*Bass, open, and slap tones are all used.

Cabasa lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOV9_e39atM

*Especially the technique at 1:11 in the video

Finger Cymbals lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6nyCLf45s

*Use the first way, and with vibrato.

Bass Drum lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci48L1RZokU

another video for this lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOksblt29A

*Do not put knee on bass drum; use the Yamaha dampening towel.

Bass Drum Roll lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanwGC_Gtwg

*Use traditional grip.

Crash Cymbals lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0xFJR4iuMA

Suspended Cymbal lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m51seFRRal0

Windchimes lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6N1FQmXmg

Timpani Basic Stroke lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSv7WsFzsCw

*Use the French grip.  Write in your sticking based on your at-home practice (use two practice pads, or similar).

Timpani roll lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbpgnbJG8k

Sleigh Bells lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkavQODCEMY

*Use a fist, not open palm.

Tambourine lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvIbXL84duI

*Your tambourine is exactly like the one in the video.  We have a tambourine with the silver jingles and one with the copper jingles.  Do NOT use the “wet” sound.  Strike with fingers, not fist.

Woodblock lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1soGwaPwyCo

*We have 3 sizes of woodblocks.  Use the middle size wooden block that we have.  Set up a trap table with a towel on the table.

Triangle lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NO3aR8bow

*Use the YAMAHA triangle.

Chimes lesson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVLHmFuiBjM