Percussion

Nigel: Hello, everybody and welcome to the Timpani Master Class for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. My name is Nigel Thomas. I'm principal timpanist with the London Symphony Orchestra and I...

In this step, we're going to take a look at how to hold everybody's favorite instrument--even has a T-shirt devoted to it--is the cowbell. Now, you can have the cowbell mounted as a...

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(Music) There are a variety of tuned percussion instruments. The timpani, the xylophone, the marimba, the glockenspiel and the chimes. They can be used in symphony orchestras, or smaller groups and...

Now in this step we are going to figure out how to actually play these fruit shakers. We can hold them now, which is good--tuck that up in there. And you can see--I mean, I'll adjust a lot...

RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to take our shaker again and do our basic pattern but now we're going to put some what's called a curve into it, where you just move hand up and...

Welcome back to Vora percussion channel. In this video, We will do tone exercise for each hands. Let's starts with bass tone practice using our right hand Do this exercise for 10 minutes. Try...

We decided to concentrate on a setup that is identical to the setup for the work ‘Rebonds B’ by the composer Iannis Xenakis Actually, here we have two drums We have two tom-toms where one of them, on...

Everything with a sound looks like... An artist might picture it this way, but a musician sees it differently. The sound engineer has an oscilloscope to help him see sounds. Let's have a few...

I think to understand where it started, you have to understand Patrick’s background. When I was in high school, I didn’t have an orchestra in high school, so I studied cello outside of school. So he...