Trendmarching : Situs Library Marching Band Indonesia

By : Bryan Goff Scales, ugh! I’m certain that is how many of my students feel about playing their scales. However, probably nobody (no, not even those students) will deny that the mastery of scales is one of the most important building blocks in the fundamentals of almost all of the music which we play. [...]

“One, Two, Ready, Tense-up” By : Bryan Goff Wait a minute, shouldn’t that be “One, Two, Ready, Play!”? One of the most common playing problems that have observed in my teaching is excessive tension, and the most prevalent tension problem us usually excessive embouchure tension on the first note. It is obvious that if we [...]

Oleh: Marko S Hermawan Jupiter Indonesia Endorser Salah satu tujuan saya memberikan pemaparan pada episode sebelumnya adalah untuk menstimulasi rekan-rekan yang juga duduk ke pendidikan tinggi untuk juga berkontribusi terhadap kemajuan marching band di Indonesia. Dari unit yang mengikuti beberapa kejuaraan bergengsi di Indonesia seperti GPMB, beberapa berasal dari unit universitas. Dalam satu unit saja [...]

Oleh: Marko S Hermawan Jupiter Indonesia EndorserMemang sudah menjadi naluri sebagai dosen, maka apapun itu, semuanya harus ada proses belajar mengajar. Dan ini termasuk dunia marching band yang telah menjadi bagian dari “darah” dalam pembuluh saya. Ide ini sebetulnya muncul ketika saya masih belajar di sekolah keguruan musik Institut Musik Dr. Pono Banoe. Namun baru [...]

By : Bryan Goff Here is an exercise, which is certainly not new, but perhaps deserves reconsideration. Although I usually incorporate long tones in my daily routine, I usually do so to build endurance and range, and I usually hold the notes at a steady mezzo dynamic level for about 5-6 seconds. I recently gave [...]

By : Bryan Goff I keep repeating the theme that in order to not neglect certain playing techniques, we must include these techniques in a specific slot in our regular daily practice schedule. I have previously mentioned techniques such as lip slurs and single tonguing. I feel that it is also important to ensure that [...]

By : Bryan Goff Some trills are easy, some trills are more difficult, and some trills are nearly impossible to execute cleanly. In the following example the B-natural to C trill is very easy. The C to D trill is more difficult because the pitch must be focused, by the lip, at a pitch center [...]

Oleh: Marko S Hermawan. Jupiter Indonesia Endorser Berhubungan dengan episode sebelumnya mengenai pemanasan alat tiup, marilah kita lanjutkan pembicaraan berikutnya. Latihan selanjutnya adalah memperhatikan nada pendek dan nada stakato. SHORT NOTES Biasanya latihan ini merupakan rangkaian pemanasan setelah Long Tones. Pemanasan ini bertujuan untuk memperkuat nada stakato, aksentuasi dan tekanan nada. Berawal dari nada ‘do’ [...]

By : Bryan Goff One of my other Trumpet Topics pages included a description of the virtues of Long Tones vs. Lip Slurs. Something that I should have also mentioned in that description is that long tones tend to reinforce. For example, if you are in the process of making an embouchure change, you will [...]

We all know it’s important, but how much do we use it every day? By : Bryan Goff Many of the benefits of practice with a metronome are quite obvious. When practicing a piece of music, the use of a metronome helps maintain a steady tempo throughout. A metronome is necessary for checking a composer’s [...]