{"id":464,"date":"2023-03-09T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:52:03","slug":"top-five-percussion-tips-for-concert-band-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/top-five-percussion-tips-for-concert-band-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP FIVE PERCUSSION TIPS FOR CONCERT BAND FESTIVALS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Written by Wenger Guest Author Shilo Stroman<\/strong>, Senior Instructor of Percussion and Jazz at Colorado State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blog-header-percussion-festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470\" 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I\u2019ve had the fortune of being a percussion specialist with quality concert bands performing at state festivals, state music conferences and the Music For All National Concert Band Festival. The following tips are gleaned from those experiences and hopefully will help ease some of your stress during the festival season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venue provided instruments<\/strong> <br>Get as much detail as you can about the instruments being provided by the venue. I once showed up to a venue that provided Dresden-style timpani on the performance stage. These drums have a clutch on the pedals, which created quite an issue for my students because they had never seen this type of pedal and a couple of our tunes had difficult tuning changes. Giving your students advance notice of these types of differences can help alleviate anxiety on the day of the festival.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prioritize familiarity<\/strong><br>Any instrument you deem necessary for comfort level of your percussionists and\/or provides a unique sound for your specific piece of music, BRING IT! I suggest making a list of instruments that can be checked off while loading and again when leaving to return back to the school. I\u2019ve seen both scenarios, where you\u2019re forced to borrow instruments right before an important performance, or where expensive gear gets left at the venue. Be sure to also bring plenty of black towels for mallet trays and trap stands. They\u2019re also useful to lay on the floor underneath a snare drum if a venue has a particularly live stage.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bring mallets for EVERY instrument<\/strong><br>Even if the venue is providing concert bass drum mallets etc, I would still bring equipment that your students are used to using every day. It will make the students more comfortable playing a foreign instrument with a mallet they\u2019re familiar with.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listen to at least one band BEFORE you perform<\/strong> <br>This will help you and your percussion students hear what the venue sounds like and make adjustments in volume. I know venues where the triangle and tambourine appear as the loudest instruments on stage, due to their frequency range and a shell right behind the percussion section. You can further prepare students by rehearsing the possible acoustic scenarios a week or so prior to the event, that way your percussionists know how to adapt in the moment.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Setup vs warm up<\/strong><br>I prefer the percussion section set up their equipment as close to the performance venue as possible while the winds are warming up. This way, they can setup on stage quickly and get as comfortable as possible before the performance begins. It&#8217;s important to practice getting on and off the stage and also navigating transitions between pieces. It&#8217;s helpful to create diagrams of the setup, and lists of which students will move to which particular instrument. Include assignments for who will make timpani tuning adjustments, turn off the snares etc. Write ALL of this down and have hard copies in folders for the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1852-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1852-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1852-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wengercorp.com\/teacher-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1852-768x1152.jpg 768w, 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style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ShiloStroman\">www.youtube.com\/c\/ShiloStroman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a percussion specialist with many bands that have performed at state festivals, conferences, and national competitions, Shilo Stroman offers his top five tips for making sure the experience is successful for your percussionists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,41,8,13,15],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-resources","tag-band","tag-contest","tag-music-education","tag-percussion","tag-teaching-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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