MUED 3371: Brass/Woodwind/Percussion Techniques

1 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Must be a fully admitted music major.
Brass/Woodwind/Percussion Techniques provides for basic teaching and playing competency, including pedagogical principles designed for Choral, Elementary, Guitar, and Piano concentrations.

Course Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes

Goals

The two main goals of this course are (1) to equip the student with strategies and techniques required to successfully teach young instrumental musicians proper performance practices for the flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, percussion, and (2) to provide students with experiences leading to the development of personal performance skills on each instrument, enabling the student to effectively model exemplary performance on each instrument.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify parts of the instruments studied.
2. Demonstrate proper instrument care, assembly, hand position, and performance posture.
3. Demonstrate the formation and proper use of the embouchure required for the production of a characteristic sound on each instrument.
4. Prepare and perform basic scales and appropriate melodic exercises.
5. Perform ensemble selections that demonstrate application of techniques required to balance and blend with regard to pitch, rhythm, tone quality, dynamics, and articulation.
6. Analyze performance problems and identify various strategies for solving these problems.
7. Devise a sequential approach to aid students in avoiding performance problems on each specific instrument studied in class.
8. Discriminate between exemplary and poor tone quality and accurately describe contributing factors for both.
9. Apply techniques gleaned from the course in teaching proper performance practices to young instrumental musicians.
10. Predict possible performance outcomes based on analysis and assessment of young instrumental music students.
11. Perform with proper airflow and articulation.
12. Explain articulation techniques and styles and demonstrate mastery through performance.
13. Differentiate skills and techniques required for mastery of performance in the low, mid, and high ranges.
14. Explain fingering systems for each instrument and how construction/acoustics impact these systems. 15. Evaluate intonation tendencies and summarize considerations required for performing with proper balance and blend within the section and within an ensemble.