Instruments of the Orchestra

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Instruments of the Orchestra

• P E R C U S S I O N

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Percussion

• Striking
• Shaking
• Scraping

How do we make a sound?
The 3 S's
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3 Types of Percussion Instruments
Drums
Keyboards
Auxiliary
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The Keyboards

• To play these, you STRIKE the keys with MALLETS.
  Notice the mallets in the picture on the left.

Because you can play a scale on these, they are
PITCHED INSTRUMENTS DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO
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Vibes, Xylophones, and Marimbas..OH MY!!!
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All of these keyboard instruments!!!

• There are many different keyboard instruments
  that are all played when the keys are struck with
  another object, usually a mallet.
• They include the bells, chimes, xylophone, vibes,
  marimbas, pianos, step bells, etc.
• They are all PITCHED instrumentsyou can play
  scales and melodies on its keys!!

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BANG
WHAP
SLAM
BAM
THE DRUMS
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The Drums

• Statistics prove that the acid in drumsticks can
  permeate skin, and that by the time a student
  reaches 6th grade (assuming he / she began
  drumming in 4th grade) that student will have
  lost up to 10 of his / her brain cells.
• The Hutchison Institute of Percussive
  Studies

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Drums

• You make a sound on all drums by striking the
  HEAD of the drum. The head is a man-made
  material that stretches across the top of the
  drum, creating a place for the drummer to strike
  the instrument with a mallet, drumstick, or hand.
• Years ago, the head of the drum was made by
  stretching animal hide across the top of the drum.

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Different Types of Drums
The Bass Drum is the Mother of all drums. It is
extremely large and makes the LOWEST sound of our
drums. Because it is so large and the sound has
more room to resonate, it makes a gigantic
BOOM-ing sound. Can you play a scale on this
instrument????
Bass Drum
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The Worlds Largest Drum
Purdue University, located in Indiana, boasts
that it has the worlds largest bass drum. It is
drug out onto the football field during all home
games and is 8 feet in diameter and measures 4
feet between the drum heads!!!
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The Snare Drum

• Usually made of metal.

• Has a man-made head.

Can you play a scale on this instrument?

• Has SNARES on the bottom of it that vibrate
  against the drum to make a sound when the drum is
  struck!

• Is usually played with drumsticks or brushes.

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The Timpani

• Played by striking the head with a mallet!

• Uses a pedal to change PITCH!!

• You CAN play a scale on these instruments!!

• The different sizes have different RANGES!!

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Other Drums
Bongo Drums
Concert Toms
There are a gazillion different types of
drumsthe important thing to remember is that
they are all played by striking an object against
the HEAD of the drum! Some drums ARE pitched,
some are UNpitched. Remember, if you can play a
scale on the drum, it is pitched. If you canNOT
play a scale on the drum, then it is UNpitched!!
Conga Drums
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The Auxiliary Percussion

• As you know already, percussion instruments
  create sound when two objects are slapped,
  shaken, or scraped against each other. What does
  this say about your hands? Can your hands be
  percussion? What about your pencil- can your
  pencil be used as a percussion instrument?
• Check out this clip from STOMPwhat objects are
  they using as percussion instruments?

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The AUXILIARY Percussion are instruments that do
not fit into the category of keyboards or drums.
These are things such as the
Tambourine
Maracas
Hi-Hat (cymbals)
What else could be considered auxiliary
percussion????
Gong
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Heres an incomplete list of auxiliary percussion
instruments. Can you think of more?

• Castanets
• Claves
• Wood Blocks
• Vibraslap
• Sandpaper Blocks
• Crash Cymbals
• Triangle
• Guiro
• Rhythm Sticks
• Finger Cymbals
• Suspended Cymbals

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LET US REVIEW.

• What are the Three Ss for making sound on a
  drum?
• Slap mallets against a drum head, hands
  together, etc.
• Scrape the beater on a guiro, your thumb on a
  tambourine, etc.

• Shake (yeah, yeahshake it like a polaroid
  picturelike Miss Piggy is tryin to do!) like
  the maracas.

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Pitched or Unpitched??

• Pitched Unpitched
• Snare Drum
• Timpani
• Xylophone
• Triangle
• Bass Drum
• Guiro
• Cymbals
• Piano
• Marimba

REMEMBER its pitched if you can play a scale
on it!!
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The End