Orchestral Percusion Techniques

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Orchestral Percusion Techniques, Wierd and Exciting required!

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jonscott14	May 19 2007, 02:38 PM Post #1
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1560 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Bratton, Wiltshire, England, UK Member No.: 2732	Hi all percussionists! (and anyone else!) I have recently been given the go ahead to compose a piece for the schools brass and percusion section. This is full orchestral brass, and orchestral percusion - tuned and untuned. I wan't to create some unusual sounds, and was wandering if anyone could offer some advice and techniques that are effective - it would be great if they were infrequently used. Many thanks, Jon

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Lizzie2284	May 28 2007, 04:48 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 20-May 07 From: Manchester Member No.: 11437	Try bowing a vibraphone, it makes an unearthly glassy sound. Bowing crotales produces a similar sound too. Scraping a coin or something similar round a tam-tam is quite a good effect, though quiet in the midst of all those brasses! Sizzle cymbal - put a necklace chain or something similar around the cymbal and when struck, it will 'sizzle'!! Don't be scared to think outside the percussion box either... if the sound you want is best produced by whacking to glass bottles together, then do it! I think experimentation is the key word here...

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jonscott14 Orchestral Percusion Techniques May 19 2007, 02:38 PM

Manek You could tell whoever's playing snare to rims... May 19 2007, 04:51 PM

flute fanatic Other than that, all I can think of is playing x... May 19 2007, 04:53 PM

chrisgs cymbal balanced on a timp sounds quite interesting... May 19 2007, 04:59 PM

sonataform First of all, congratulations on being asked to wr... May 20 2007, 03:38 PM

kenm [...]An alternative to all of this is not to creat... May 21 2007, 08:29 AM

DrumKat Scraping a cymbal with a coin always sounds good. ... May 21 2007, 02:30 PM

jonscott14 I am able to use for the brass: Around 8 trumpets ... May 21 2007, 07:47 PM

DrumKat Well, in the religious one, tubular bells, susp. c... May 24 2007, 04:36 PM

Lizzie2284 Try bowing a vibraphone, it makes an unearthly gla... May 28 2007, 04:48 PM

DrumKat Just thought of another thing...a rivet cymbal. D... May 28 2007, 05:40 PM

jonscott14 Just thought of another thing...a rivet cymbal. ... May 30 2007, 10:59 AM

DrumKat Just thought of another thing...a rivet cymbal. ... May 30 2007, 12:09 PM

jonscott14 [quote name='jonscott14' post='523184' date='May ... May 30 2007, 06:13 PM

DrumKat They do sound nice - just for that extra bit of ... May 30 2007, 07:00 PM

**Erica** i once saw a german wind band playing a piece whe... Jun 15 2007, 06:37 PM

jonscott14 i once saw a german wind band playing a piece wh... Jun 16 2007, 09:47 PM

molly You could also be inspired by percussion in samba ... Jun 16 2007, 11:46 AM

kenm Steve Reich (over)uses bowed vibes in "Tehill... Jun 20 2007, 07:28 PM

jonscott14 I listened to that the other day! - I got a 5 ... Jun 20 2007, 09:33 PM

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