Hand Bell Ringing Techniques

With bass bells lying on the foam pads grasp the clapper with the fingers keeping the thumb on top.

Hand bell ringing techniques.

Handbell techniques basic bell techniques including stopped sounds sustained sounds and altered sounds taught both as a half day workshop and as a 10 week series for adult beginners weaving managing multiple bells without using four in hand. Handbells 101 the basic ringing stroke damping and understanding handbells as an instrument. This technique may be used when a soft ring follows a loud ring with the same handbell s. Ring the primary bell.

The cd is executed after ringing a handbell particularly a large handbell slide a gloved hand or finger s up the outside of the handbell toward the rim of the casting. To ring a handbell the ringer moves it in such a way that the clapper strikes the inside surface of the bell usually holding it against his or her shoulder bell upwards and then swinging the bell through an elliptical shape to cause the clapper to strike the casting. I suggest sitting in the middle of a bed because you ll drop the bells while learning. This video shows t.

Change ringing can also be performed on handbells where it becomes a contrast to the melodic music of handbell choirs. Demonstrate the ergonomic execution of each of the four in hand techniques for handbells parallel ring parallel push aka shelley ring and push british japanese style reverse stacked ring and push interlocked ring and push and interlocked british japanese style aka campanile including ringing together and separately damping articulations and changes to the primary and secondary instruments. Flip out break apart a four in hand configuration and end up with the primary bell in the opposite hand. The effect simulates a forte piano.

Plucking is a stopped sound technique used primarily in the bass clef c5 and lower. It is most familiar to the public as the sound of church bells. This produces a crisp percussive sound. Throw the clapper down using the hand while the thumb guides the clapper against the strike point.

Change ringing is a form of traditional music based on sequences permutations and patterns. Practice with two small bells in ring and knock configuration in your right or dominant hand.