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🎵News!

Exciting Opportunity

Come and join our Bridge Orchestra!

Have you always wanted to play in an orchestra, but can only play a few notes?

If so, Bridge Orchestra is for you!

This ensemble is especially designed for beginners to grade 1 on any instruments including Piano and acoustic guitar. If you are a pianist, you will be given exciting tuned and untuned percussion instruments to play. Once you have developed your orchestral skills you will be ready to join one of our BMS Junior ensembles.

For more information click here

🎵Tune In Trumpets

Hello trumpet players! Click on the options below to support you with your practice. Here are some other things that may help your playing. If your valves become sticky and slow you will need to purchase some trumpet valve oil, it's a special oil for trumpets.

How to Buzz Reminder!

🎺Note Names, Length and Dynamics

Learn the names of the notes and their value as this will help with your music reading. The Dynamics will tell you how soft or loud you need to play.

The notes are more commonly called: Semi breve (Whole note), Minim (Half note), Crotchet (Quarter note), Quaver(Eighth note) and Semi quaver (sixteenth note).

🎶 Alternative note names:

Whole Note = Semibreve Half Note = Minim Quarter Note = Crotchet Eighth Note = Quaver Sixteenth Note = Semi-Quaver

🎺 The C Major Scale

Here is the C major scale, you can see that you've already played and are confident with the pitch and fingerings for the first 3 notes C, D and E. Now see if you can go higher!

🎵Beginner Warm Up Exercises 🎺 Play through these exercises with Mrs Gardner to strengthen your 'embouchure' and secure your pitching. Remember to use your tongue to start the notes properly.

Warm Up C

Warm Up D

Warm Up E

Warm Up F

Warm Up G

🎺Let's Practice C Again!

🎵 Practise C

Click on the video link to practise your C's. Remember you need to have a strong buzz, lots of air and start your note with Tu or Ta using your tongue. You must make the same sound as Mrs Gardner, if you're too low then pull the corners of your mouth back and pull your chin down, if you're too high relax your mouth slightly. Remember not to push your lips forward.

The more you practise the easier you will find playing, you will progress quicker and you will enjoy playing even more.

Have fun playing! 🎺

🎺Our Performance Piece

🎵Let's Rehearse Our Piece

Click on the video links and practise your performance piece with Mrs Gardner. Mrs Gardner will break the piece down into manageable chunks for you to practise as per your lessons and then you will put everything you've learnt together. 🎺

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🎶 Something To Listen To

Inspirational Brass Playing!

Watch the video of other brass instruments playing together, you may even want to learn one of these! You could learn any of the following brass instruments through BMS:

French Horn
Trombone
Tuba
Baritone
Euphonium

and of course the trumpet!!!

🎶 Let's Look at Rhythm - you can clap or play these on any note

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