How to Make Sounds With a Triangle

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Hi, I'm Aaron Bland on behalf of Expert Village and I want to talk to you today about pulling different sounds out of this instrument. Now, it's not necessarily a pitched instrument. The reason that this became popularized in orchestras is because its tone has an indefinite pitch. You can kind of hone in on the actual pitch of the instrument. Is it a G? Is it an A flat? But, there are so many overtones in the triangle that it can kind of go with any style of music, in any key signature. Now, depending on the size of the triangle, that's going to determine the pitch. Generally, the smaller the triangle is, the higher the pitch is going to be. The larger, it's going to be a lower pitch and usually a darker sound as well. So, with a little bit of experimentation, you can pull out a lot of different sounds from the triangle. From the traditional way, hitting it on the upper quadrant of the triangle. You can also play it along the bottom bar and you get a different sound out of it. A lot more tonal sound. I'll let you hear the two right next to each other. Just the difference in those two attacks. You can hit just the corner, again for a different sound and experiment. A different beater is going to give you a whole variety of different sounds. But, just playing the triangle itself with the same beater, experiment with different places on the triangle to hit it.

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