The 4 Main Ingredients of a Great Cymbal Crash

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Have you ever wondered how to play the cymbals? Here is a mini cymbals lesson for you!
0:00 Intro
1:52 The 4 Main Ingredients
9:43 Musical Examples
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Join me while we go over what makes a great cymbal crash. When playing percussion in an orchestra, the cymbal player plays a role that is more expressive than almost any other percussion instruments.
This video is great for any budding orchestral percussionist or classical music enthusiast who wants to explore more about percussion instruments.
This video is a bit longer than my other ones, and my intention was to (subtly) split the video into 2 halves. The first half should provide someone who is interested in a general overview of the cymbals with enough information to “get it”. The second half provides a few specific musical examples for those who want to dig in further or are a budding percussionist themselves. I opted for this form of presentation, rather than creating a “Part 1 & 2”, so that I would have all of the information about cymbals in one place. My goal was to make the entire (16 minute) video face-paced enough that it would be of interest to a wide variety of experience levels; including non-musicians.
This is my second video exploring the world of orchestral percussion. After making my first about the triangle, the logical next step was cymbals; which are my favorite percussion instruments. There are many fine details that go into playing a great cymbal crash, and it takes a life time for a percussionist to master them. Focusing on 4 of these details will hopefully help anyone understand what goes into making a great sound out of hitting 2 metal plates together.
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LINKS/BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Two-Set Violin Bruckner 7 humor:
• Life as a Percussionist.
HMTM Hannover - Schlagzeugklasse Brucker 7 humor:
• Bruckner 7 Becken - Ke...
Rob Knopper cymbal video:
• how to warm up on cymbals
Vic Firth cymbal video:
• Crash Cymbals 2: Playi...
Wind-up toy video:
• Vintage Walking Wind-U...
Marching band cymbals video:
• SCV Cymbals 2017
Middle school cymbal player video:
• Star Spangled Banner C...
Slow-motion cymbal video:
• 16" Crash Cymbal in 40...
Richard Strauss- Ein Heldenleneb full performance
• Strauss "Ein Heldenleb...
Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet full performance
• Tschaikowsky: Romeo un...

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@Davetarantino 3 жыл бұрын

1:11 Can you name all of the pieces in that montage?! (.... can you name all of the players too?? I can name maybe about half of them...)

@jacobsteuer6928 3 жыл бұрын

Tchaikovsky 4, Pictures at an Exhibition, 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky 4 again, Tchaikovsky 6, Strauss Ein Heldenleben (I think), Mahler 5, No clue, Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn, Bruckner 7, Strauss Alpine Symphony. So, no, I cannot, in fact, name all of the pieces.

@jordanhale4951 3 жыл бұрын

Shostakovich 7, capriccio Italien

@Davetarantino 3 жыл бұрын

Close!!

@jacobsteuer6928 3 жыл бұрын

Wait it might be Academic Festival Overture.

@peperillo 4 ай бұрын

strauß's is also sprach Zarathustra I think@@jacobsteuer6928

@user-kt6zy9gh3r 3 күн бұрын

Thank you dave

@peperillo 4 ай бұрын

I've just found out the cymbal strap break kid saluted cause he had veterans in his family, nice of him

@Sasha-tm8qy 5 ай бұрын

I never thought about getting lessons for percussion accessories but man I learned so much things! I've been playing in orchetra for more than 10 years and there are many little things that I haven't been taught, like holding the cymbals right, doing a triangle roll, playing the wood sticks right.. so thank you for all that.

@Davetarantino 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!! Glad you got soemthing out it.

@mayushviola 3 жыл бұрын

I played all these pieces before, but never thought too much about the cymbals behind me! Thanks for sharing :-)

@Davetarantino 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Maya! We'll talk about this later... after I wash the dirty dishes of course.

@SoFallsWichitaFalls 3 ай бұрын

Very well done! Thank you.

@RosendahlMusic Жыл бұрын

Great explanation!

@yutonglin7112 Жыл бұрын

very helpful

@julian12401 3 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@Davetarantino 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julian! Thanks for watching!

@Deech72 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing work Dave!

@Davetarantino 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris!! I appreciate you taking the time to watch it!

@ajsnyder 4 ай бұрын

Thinking about the examples you provided and how you varied offset, angle and speed in each instance, what size of cymbal and style of playing would you recommend for marches played in a concert band context (e.g. Sousa, von Suppe)? Think lots of quarter note / eighth note passages that are written forte+.