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TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Mandy 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

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TONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Mandy Burton

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If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great will ever happen to you.

Dr. Gregory House

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BUT FIRST, TONE

➤ Intonation ➤ Blend ➤ Balance

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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

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FIRST SOUNDS

➤ “Sound before Sight” ➤ No books ➤ Guests ➤ YouTube ➤ Demonstrate ➤ Empathy ➤ Tessitura ➤ Aural matching

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CHARACTERISTIC TONE

➤ Aiming without a target ➤ “Music Mondays” ➤ Home Helper ➤ Demonstrating ➤ Mouthpieces ➤ Embouchure ➤ Vowels/Tongue position ➤ Tools ➤ Repetition

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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

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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!

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CONSISTENCY & CONCEPTUAL TEACHING

➤ Addressing does not always mean fixing! ➤ Warm-ups ➤ KISS ➤ Buzzing, singing ➤ Conceptual Teaching ➤ Chicken vs. Egg

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ARTICULATIONS

➤ Right away ➤ Before books ➤ Singing, air ➤ On mouthpieces, then instruments ➤ Call & Response ➤ Varied articulations ➤ Singing syllables ➤ Unison, single pitch ➤ Break it down

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky