Instruments of the Orchestra -PERCUSSION

okay Welcome to our discussion continuing discussion on the instruments of the orchestra today we're going to look at the percussion family and uh the percussion family is classified just like all the others by the way they produce sound there are three main ways that all percussion instruments produce sound you can hit them shake them or scrape them so

hitting them scraping or shaking them uh most of them are played by simply hitting them so they're the the most fun if you like violence so it's a bit problematic in covering the percussion family because it is a unique family and that it is the smallest family in the orchestra by number of players this

Orchestra has four there's usually only about two to five percussionists um in an orchestra however despite their small size by number of people they play more instruments than any other family there are literally cabinets of instruments that these guys can play and so your standard professional percussionist is a master of quite a few instruments the

one guy that usually specializes in the orchestra we're going to learn these are called the tempany or Kettle drums and he's the one guy that kind of specializes in that and the rest of them move around to the various different percussion instruments now we are going to classify percussion by two main families and that is the pitched

percussion which are capable of playing uh individual notes um and then you have your non-pitched which can't really play tones they can't play actual melodic notes so an an example of that um being non-pitched that is is a snare drum the snare drum lacks the capability of being able to play A melodic phrase so ask