Useful content especially for students created by Elefante teachers and staff
Featured: Instrumental Lessons for Beginners
Clarinet
Trumpet
Saxophone
Trombone
Flute
- How to Assemble a Percussion Kit
- Outside-the-Box Drumming
- Jazz Comping Using Syncopation
- A Word from Drum Instructor Anthony Amodeo
- How to Tune Your Violin or Viola
- How to Measure for a String Instrument
Choosing Your Instrument Made Easy
Interested in band or orchestra and not sure which instrument to choose? We’re here to help. Our Choosing Your Instrument page features video demonstrations for the most common instruments available for first-year school programs.
Upright bass, also called string bass or double bass, is a member of the orchestra family. Just as often, however, it appears in jazz, bluegrass, folk, and other genres. With a large hollow body and 4 thick strings, the tones produced by the upright bass are low and rich. The instrument is capable of long, expressive tones when played with a bow; and short, percussive tones when plucked with the strings. String bass is a dynamic and impressive instrument to play!
The oboe is a woodwind and a member of the double-reed family. It is played by blowing air through the reed, attached at the top of the instrument. The reed consists of two very thin pieces of cane, pressed together with a small opening to allow air to pass through. The sound can be high in pitch, but it has a variety of colorful tones, from bright and piercing to low and mysterious.
