Wind bands in Colombia: how to start and what instrument to choose
Symphony, martial or furry: What types of gangs are in Colombia, how to choose your instrument and what to prepare before your first essay or your entrance test.
To get into a wind band in Colombia, look for that of your high school, the house of culture or the local music school, choose an instrument as you like and what the band needs and come with the basic prepared: read simple rhythms, get a stable sound and keep your pulse with others.
The gangs are one of the most vivid musical traditions of the country: they sound at schools, municipalities, patrolling parties, parades and contest. That guide helps you understand what types of band are there, what instrument to choose and how to prepare for you, you are 10 or 40.
To sum up
- In Colombia there are symphonic gangs, martial gangs from schools, popular gangs such as payateras or payapateras and chirimas, each of them asking for different things.
- Choose your instrument by the sound that gets you excited, by your body and by what the band needs, and the director usually guides the decision.
- Clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, thrombon and percussion are regular entrance doors and less ordered instruments open up space faster.
- What helps you most while you come in is to read simple rhythms, hold long notes and play with a metronome.
- The particular classes complement the essays: the band teaches you how to play as a group and the teacher fixes your embocture and your technique.
What kind of gangs are there in Colombia
| Tipo | That's where you find her. | What's his play? | Instruments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony or wind band | Schools, local music schools, universities | Arrangements for Colombian music, band works and popular music | Timber, metal and complete percussion |
| Martial band or peace band | Schools, parades and familial dates | March and parade arrangements | Liras, repurants, light pumps, sauces and metals, sometimes more winds |
| Fairy or pawnout band or pawnshop | Festivals, carnival and celebrations | Roof, Fandangos and Dancing Music | Clears, trumpets, thrombons, bombines, pump, pounding and saucer |
| Chirimia | Chocó and the North Pacific | Pacific traditional musicians | Clarinet, bombardment, pounding, drum and saucer |
Many local gangs are born from the local and local schools of music or from the house of culture, which often train their members from scratch and, in some cases, give them tools. Question in your town or town: there's often more offer than you can imagine. If you're attracted to pores and fandangos, read about [instruments of Colombian Caribbean music]](/blog/instrumentos-de-la-musica-del-caribe-colombiano).
What instrument to choose for the band?
| Instrumento | That's what she's after. | Please note |
|---|---|---|
| Flute | Air Control and patience with first sound | Ideal if you have an acute and agile melodies. |
| Clarinet | Milling with cane and agile digitation | It's usually the largest section of the symphony band, so there's room for several. |
| Saxophone | Rod, powerful sound and flexibility of styles | He goes with ease from his band to jazz, salsa or pop. |
| Trumpet | Vibration of lips at the nozzle and resistance | Protagonist with marches and pits, demand intersession rest. |
| Trombone | Heard to place stick and arm range positions | Read in Fa key and very young children do not reach the longest positions. |
| Bombard, cornum or tuba | A lot of air and a round sound | They usually have less seekers, so they get space faster. |
| Percussion | Founding lung, coordinate and rhythmic reading | It includes pounding, pump, plates, timbals and percussion keyboards. |
To decide, it combines four questions:
- What's with your sound? He's listening to gangs and his instrument's still missing.
- What's your body asking for? For nozzles and rods it's best to have final teeth from the front and the trombone wants an arm length and the tenor saxophone, bigger hands. Your teacher or the director can guide you.
- What does the band need? Ask the director: if they miss bombardments or cuts, get in that way can be faster.
- Do you have access to the instrument? Buying, renting or using an institution greatly changes the equation.
If you doubt between two, these comparisons help you: [trumpet or trombone]](/blog/trompeta-o-trombon) and [traverse or clarinet flute]](/blog/flauta-traversa-o-clarinete).
How to get ready before you get in
- Rhythmic reading: clap and count black, clasp and quiet at 2 / 4, 3 / 4 and 4 / 4. That's what's best used in the first essay.
- The key to your instrument: most read as a code of sun, and thrombon, bombardment and tuba usually read as a code of fa.
- Long notes: hold a comfortable note with up to eight or more, with sound matching, without tiring and at the end.
- A simple scale: Many bands heat up with the scale of whether bemol concert and ask what the digitation is in your instrument.
- Play in time: practice everything with [online metronomer]](/herramientas/metronomo), starting slow.
- Filling: Learn how to title the nozzle, tudel or tuning pump with the help of a tuning machine, and how to listen if you are high or low in front of your Section.
Transpository instruments: Don't be afraid
The clarinet and the trumpet are in itself bemol, the high saxophone in my bemol and the pah's horn: the note that you read doesn't sound as good as the same note at the piano. Do not have to figure out, the parts of the band have been written for your instrument. Just learn to digitate what you read and let your teacher explain the rest to you at the time.
The entrance test: what they usually demand
Many school gangs have been given an audition and advanced town gangs or contest seedlings have been tested and most often asked to:
- A simple scale in your instrument.
- A short piece or a fragment that you touch with comfort.
- A first-glance reading of an easy exercise.
- Rhythmic exercises with palms.
- Repeat singing or playing a short tune to listen to your ear.
- A conversation about your availability for essays and presentations.
Choose something that's clear for you: A simple and well-touched piece says more than a difficult piece full of stumbling. It comes with a clear and tuned instrument and if you have an instrument as yet, ask if the band lends tools to the test.
That's how you get his best out.
- It leads to every essay and sets breathing, dynamic and direction of the director.
- Study your share at home: The essay is to put the band together, and not to learn grades.
- Listen to your Section and put up with it, but with the tuning machine.
- At the metal, it alternates to play and rest and do not come to the presentation with his lips exhausted.
- To parades, memorize what you can and practice with walking.
- If you are close to the percussion or metal, wear cover for musicians: they lower their volume without distorted sound.
- Clean your instrument after every test and saliva and moisture damage slippers, pistons and corks.
Band and particular classes: the combination that works
A director with forty musicians cannot correct his or her pursuit. A teacher does detect in time the habits that after months have been broken: inflate his or her cheeks, biting his or her cane, tighten his or her lips or tighten his or her shoulders. A medio tono there are [trumpet] teachers](/clases/trompeta), trombone, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, in virtual or at home classes in Bogotá, that can work with you with your band's repertoire.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to have some music to get into the high school band?
Almost never. Many school gangs form from scratch and teach how to read as they go. Reaching with rhythmic reading notions and a basic sound allows you to advance faster and enjoy from the first essay.
At how old can you start with a wind band?
Many children start at the final grades of primary care. The percussion, flute and clarinet adapt earlier and the thrombon, tuba or tenor saxophone can wait for the child to grow up a little. music classes for children 9 to 12 years old We have more about this stage.
Do I have to buy my instrument to get into a band?
It's up to the band. Some give tools, especially big or expensive, and the percussion usually comes from the institution. If you're going to buy, ask your teacher to review the instrument earlier. A bad instrument frustrates anyone.
Can I get into a band as an adult?
That's right. There are community, university and municipal gangs that get grown up and some have processes for beginners. A few previous classes help you get to a stable sound and to track the stage of essays without frustrating you.