Learn Different Ways to Hold a Triangle

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Summary: Learn about the other ways to hold a triangle 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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Aaron Bland Aaron Bland is a performer, recording artist, and educator
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Learn Different Ways to Hold a Triangle

Hi I'm Aaron Bland on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to demonstrate an alternative holding technique for the triangle. Instead of holding it up here between your thumb and your pointer finger like you would traditionally hold the triangle to let that sound ring out. I'm going to lose the holder all together so I'm just left with the triangle and we talked a little bit about muting the triangle by using fabric or cloth or the fleshy part of the finger. It's going to inhibit the triangle from ringing out quite as much but it does a whole lot of cool things like gives me a little more control over how much muting is going on just because I'm a lot closer to the triangle and this is used mostly when you are playing a rhythm on the triangle if you're not doing the three hundred and ninety seven measures of rest followed by the ding at the very end of a song. This will give you more control over playing it musically because you can use those two fingers just like we used the four in the muting technique to actually play that triangle.