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Subject
Instrumental Music
Grade
Grade 10
Concept/Content
techniques specific to individual or families of instruments, including:
  • winds
  • percussion
  • keyboard
  • orchestral strings
  • guitar

    Note: Students are only expected to know techniques related to their instrument(s) of choice.
Elaboration
  • fingerings/slide positions, including alternate and trill fingering
  • intonation
  • articulation (e.g., tonguing, multiple tonguing)
  • ornamentation (e.g., trills, glissando, grace notes)
  • embouchure
  • breath control
  • tone quality (including vibrato)
  • use of mutes
  • stick, mallet, beater, and brush technique
  • hand-drumming technique
  • pitched percussion technique
  • articulation
  • fills, shots, tone quality, intonation
  • articulation: techniques that use touch or pedals to alter the transitions between notes (e.g., staccato, legato, phrasing, use of pedals)
  • fingering and chording technique
  • chord voicing
  • comping technique: chords, rhythms, and patterns played to accompany an improvised solo or melody (e.g., ii-V-I)
  • keyboard instrumentation: keyboard alone or with bass and/or guitar
  • blend and balance: the use of relative volume and tonal techniques to highlight certain instruments or create a homogeneous timbre (e.g., accompaniment versus solo technique)
  • left-hand technique (e.g., vibrato, double-stopping, triple-stopping, shifting)
  • finger pattern profiles
  • bowing technique (e.g., detaché, martelé, spiccato)
  • pizzicato
  • intonation
  • tone quality
  • harmonics
  • chord playing (open and arpeggiated chords)
  • single note playing
  • picking, fingering, strumming, hand positions
  • articulation: techniques affecting transitions between notes (e.g., legato, staccato, slurs, damping, bends, hammer-ons)
  • intonation
  • tone quality: techniques that impact timbre or the overall sound of the instrument
  • voicings: the distribution or vertical arrangement of notes in a chord (e.g., rootless, R37, R73)
  • acoustic versus electric guitar technique
  • rhythm guitar patterns and accompaniment techniques
  • single-line melody reading, tablature, modes
keywords
winds
percussion
keyboard
orchestral strings
guitar