How to Mute a Triangle

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Summary: Learn the different degrees of triangle muting in this free video series that will show you how to play the triangle and provide you with other percussion instrument techniques with these video music lessons.

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How to Mute a Triangle

Hi I'm Aaron Bland on behalf of Expert Village and today I'm going to talk about triangles and muting the triangle. Now I showed you before the holder that I have, holding up the triangle is a nylon cord. It's basically a high pound test line like a fishing line. It's got a very slim amount of contact on the actual triangle you can use shoestring but any kind of fabric or cloth material that holds the triangle is going to dampen the sound a little bit and for the techniques that I've showed you thus far you want that sound to be as open as possible. Usually played in an orchestra pit it's count for 392 measures and play your whole note. But for muting, what we're going to do is actually a controlled muting. Where we have the triangle open and we're going to wrap these two fingers around the triangle and you can hear that has a significant effect on how much the triangle rings out and if you keep this in mind there are several degrees of muting that you can use. You can have a totally open triangle sound. You can have the totally muted triangle sound and you've got the whole spectrum in between and there's the basic principles of muting the triangle.