Transcript Document 7179975

The Brass Instrument Family
Tracey Titkemeier
General Music Class
4th Grade
What is a Family?
• People in a family are
related to each other
• They usually look
somewhat alike
• People probably tell you
all the time that you look
like your Mom or your
Dad
• Although you are related to the people in your
family, you are uniquely different from all of
them
• You do not look exactly like someone else in
your family, and you are probably a different
size and shape than everyone else in your family
too
• Your age is also probably different from
everyone else in your family
• It would be weird if everyone in a family was
exactly alike
• How would you be able to tell the difference
between each other?
• What excitement would there be in life if
everyone was the same?
Instruments and People
• Instruments are like people in certain ways
• Instruments look and sound different from one
another, just like people look and talk different
from each other
• Instruments also belong to families just like
people do
Instrument Families
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There are four different instrument families
1) The Percussion Family
2) The String Family
3) The Woodwind Family
4) The Brass Family
• We are going to learn about the Brass Family
• There are four instruments that belong to the
Brass Family
• These instruments are:
• The Trumpet
• The French Horn
• The Trombone
• And the Tuba
• All of these instruments in the Brass Family are
related to each other and are included in the
“Brass” Family because they are all made out of
a metal that is called “brass”
• This metal is gold looking and it is very shiny
• Although the instruments in the Brass Family are
made out of the same kind of metal, they do not
all look alike
• Some of the instruments are bigger than the
others, and some are smaller
• Some of the instruments are shaped in a different
way than the others
The Trumpet
• The first instrument in
the Brass Family is the
Trumpet
• The Trumpet is the
smallest instrument in the
Brass Family
• It makes a high pitched
sound
The French Horn
• The second instrument in
the Brass Family is the
French Horn
• The French Horn is the
second smallest
instrument in the Brass
Family
• It makes a lower pitched
sound than the Trumpet
The Trombone
• The third instrument in
the Brass Family is the
Trombone
• The Trombone is the
longest instrument in the
Brass Family
• It makes a lower pitched
sound than the French
Horn
The Tuba
• The fourth instrument in
the Brass Family is the
Tuba
• The Tuba is the biggest
instrument in the Brass
Family
• It makes a very low
pitched sound
Questions To Think About
• Do all of these instruments in the Brass Family
look the same?
• What is different about each of them?
• How are they alike?
• Why are they all in the same family?
• The Trumpet, the French
Horn, the Trombone, and
the Tuba are all different
instruments, but they all
belong to the same
family
• Just like people,
instruments belong to a
family too