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Your young musician comes home after school band music rehearsal and excitedly tells you that they are playing the flugelhorn instrument for the fall concert. Unless you know music you probably don't know much about instruments or school band beyond the occasional marching band at a football game. No fear. You can easily speak the same language as your child with a short introduction to music instruments and the school band. Band Instruments Beginning school bands usually have a limited number of instruments available, sometimes because of budget cuts, sometimes because of limited musical ability. In any case, band instruments are split up into these instrument families: percussion, woodwinds, and brass. String players generally do not play in the band. Teach Your Music Student How to Write Music with 50 Easy Exercises Percussion instruments include drums, drum set, timpani (or kettle drums), xylophone, shakers, bass drum, congas, cymbals, and triangle. Essentia...

PHOTO CREDIT: tomtommag.com 10 hilarious ways you know that you (or someone you know) was in drumline !  Ear plugs were for sissies Only wimps wear ear plugs, right? Forget the fact that you will be deaf by the time you are thirty. Better save up for hearing aids now! You practiced in the band uniform closet For some reason, almost every drumline I knew was forced to practice in the smallest possible quarters, which usually meant the uniform closet or the band storage area. You know what a triple paradiddle is Paradiddles , ratamacues, rudiments, flamadiddles and Swiss army triplets - What can it mean? Well, if you are in drumline, you know. If not, then you can go back to playing clarinet. A spare drumstick was hidden on your person Every drummer has dropped a stick mid- marching band routine. But only the good ones have a hidden place for a spare stick, usually under the marching snare drum harness. You have ever played a bullet-proof dr...