Pefomance echniques of the Contempoay Maching Pecussion Ensemble CLINICIANS: Roland Chavez, Steve Wessels DEMONSRAION GROUP: Ceda Pak High School Pecussion exas Bandmastes Association 2016 Convention/Clinic JULY 21-24, 2016 HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENION CENER SAN ANONIO, EXAS
Pefomance echniques of the Contempoay Maching Pecussion Ensemble Ceda Pak High School Dumline Roland Chavez, Diecto Assisted by Mike Bishop and Matt Hat 2016 exas Band Mastes Association Convention Satuday July 23 d, Exhibit Hall 3, 3:30 4:30pm oday s clinic will discuss diffeent concepts and stategies in building a successful outdoo pecussion ensemble. opics will include instumentation, equipment, execise & technique pogam, electonics, the "Mix" and developing the musical maching pecussionist as an individual. he goup will pefom vaious fundamentals and musical excepts thoughout the clinic. Pat 1: Instumentation and Equipment Selection 1. he Ensemble Setting a balanced sized Battey and Font Ensemble is key. a. Balanced Battey options 4 Snaes, 2 enos, 5 Bass Dums, 2 Cymbals 5 Snaes, 3 enos, 5 Bass Dums, 4 Cymbals 6 Snaes, 4 enos, 5 Bass Dums, 6 Cymbals b. Balanced Font Ensemble options 3 Maimbas, 3 Vibaphones, Xylophone/Bell, 1 2 Synths, 1 2 Aux 4 Maimbas, 4 Vibaphones, Xylophone, Bells, 2 3 Synths, 2 3 Aux 5 Maimbas, 4 Vibaphones, Xylophone, Bells, 2 4 Synths, 3 4 Aux 2. Stick & Mallets Selecting quality implements fo you ensemble is key. a. Battey Snaes Innovative Pecussion PR2 enos Innovative Pecussion F 1AH, S J2 Bass Dums Innovative Pecussion FBX 2, 3, 4, 5 b. Font Ensemble Maimbas IP 1003, FS150, FS250, 2002, 2003 Vibaphones IP 1006, 3006, 3007 Xylophone/Bells IP 903, 904, 1007, ENS460R, OS5 Auxiliay JC 2SC
3. Heads Selecting quality dum heads fo you ensemble is key. a. Battey Snaes Remo Black Max Snae op, Falams Snae Bottom enos Remo Pinstipe Cimplock Bass Dums Remo Ebony Ambassado b. Font Ensemble Concet Bass Dums Remo Fibeskyn 3 and Smooth White Empeo Pat 2: Execise and echnique Pogam 1. Wam ups See examples at end of packet. a. Battey 8 on a hand, ap Accent, Double Beat, Rolls, Advanced Flams iming Pattens, Accent Pattens, Stick Contol, Paadiddles b. Font Ensemble Octaves Scales, Geen Scales, 4 Mallet Basics, Pop Ensembles Apeggios, Duple Check Pattens, ap Accent 2. Audition Camps a. Sping Schedule 10 Audition eheasals fom Apil though May (technique only) Set the line at the end of May and begin eheasing show music. Pat 3: Electonics Setup 1. Micophones Mounted with boom ams, shock mounts and clamps Maimba (2) Audix 2 (high end), Audix 4 (low end) Vibaphone (1) Shue SM57 2. Midi Keyboad Contolles Less expensive altenative to a wokstation synthesize. M Audio Keystation 88 3. Audio Inteface Allows digital audio signal to be sent to you mixing boad. Focusite Scalett 2i2 4. Laptop Remembe to always have a backup compute on hand! 13 inch Apple MacBook Po with Retina Display and 16GB RAM 5. Mixing Boad Geat mixing boad with lots of functionality. Yamaha 01V96 with expansion cad (allows 16 moe inputs!) 6. Speakes hese ae passive speakes that equie amplifies. Yamaha CM15V Loud Speake (4), Yamaha CW118V Subwoofe (2)
Pat 4: he Mix Golden Rule: Spead out you fequencies and sepaate you voices. 1. Battey uning Well tuned dums will help you achieve geat balance in you ensemble. Snaes Aim fo a tue sopano battey voice, medium high tuning, expeiment with tape and patches fo aticulation. Always play with good sticks! enos Avoid tuning too high and poducing a choked off teno voice. Resonance is key. Expeiment with diffeent implements fo vaiety and balance. Bass Dums Use foam on heads o inside of dum on the shell to educe ovetones and gain aticulation. Don t be afaid to tune up! 2. Pecussion Ochestation A well witten pecussion book can save lots of headaches down the oad. Avoid ovewiting! Less can be moe in many cases. Design pecussion only windows in you show to featue them and give the wind playes some down time! Use mallet changes to help ceate new sound textues and to help with balancing. (section to section, battey to pit, pecussion to winds etc.) 3. Acoustic vs. Electonic Balance 80/20 Rule Acoustic keyboad playes poduce 80% of thei oveall volume though the use of good technique and coect mallet selection. he sound system povides the exta 20% of the volume it takes to balance to the full ensemble and be head in the lage aenas and noisy football stadiums. he synthesize should not eplace you wind section. Balance to you winds. 4. Oveall Ensemble Balance ip: always know what ole each voice plays in each musical phase. Beak up balancing you ensemble into smalle stages. o Balance section to section o Balance battey and font ensemble o ake a step back and balance to the winds Pat 5: Developing the Musical Maching Pecussionist 1. Pivate Lessons Pivate instuction is highly ecommended and encouaged to all pecussionists duing both school semestes and summe. 2. MEA All State Stong emphasis is placed on the MEA All State audition pocess Pecussionists attend a 1h All State masteclass, 1 pe week Pecussionists have bi monthly etude pass offs and a mock audition.
3. Solo Pefomances Each pecussionist is equied to pefom a udimental snae solo & 4 mallet maimba solo duing the sping semeste. 4. Pecussion Ensemble Each pecussionist paticipates in 2 to 4 pecussion ensembles duing the sping semeste. Sping semeste concludes with a pecussion ensemble concet. he Ceda Pak High Pecussion Ensemble wishes you the best of luck this 2016 maching band season. We hope that you can use the infomation povided in this clinic to help build a successful outdoo pecussion ensemble. Special thanks to the exas Bandmastes Association fo the oppotunity to pefom and to shae some of what makes Ceda Pak High School such an amazing place to teach. hank you to ou awesome pecussion staff Mike Bishop, Matt Hat, Nathan Smith and im Mabey, we couldn t do it with you guys! hanks to the students of the CPHS Dumline, Dumline paents and CPHS band diectos Steve Wessels, Evan VanDoen, Jason Robb and Justin Sullivan. We would also like to thank Innovative Pecussion, Remo Dum Heads and Yamaha fo you suppot of the Ceda Pak Pecussion Ensemble.
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