DAY 3: CARTHAGE, TN. L.M.'S STUDIO (heh)
Alright, picture two guys in an empty apartment room. I'm in a fold-out lawn chair, my friend's in a computer chair. We're using our trumpet cases as makeshift stands, and we're reading duets and changing horns and annoying neighbors.
I'm in heaven..
When we weren't sight-reading duets out of old folders and arban and an old Baroque trumpet book, we were playing whatever pieces the other had.
I had Aria con Variozioni and Petite Piece Concertante, he had Clarke's Carnival of Venice and Haydn's Concerto. I sight-read Clarke and Haydn valiantly, but crashed and burned horrifically at the hands of Carnival's finale (I should have known by the name of the arranger it just HAD to go to third-F!!
).
The B&S was actually slightly DARKER in tone than my better strad, but one could DEFINITELY hear a difference when the Challenger and the 1503 played together.
Today my range had returned for the most part, with the range now maxing at C#. Maybe it was just the fact I had to play with someone as good (if not better) as myself! This had to have been true, because the two hours of intense playing didn't hit me until after we decided to end.
***Also, you guys were right about playing too much. I played 100% better after rest!***
I had a slight complaint with the 1503 valves still being new, and much more resistant when compared to the others (I personally LIKE hearing my valves hit!). I also could tell I have been a bred Bach man for years, the tuning with the strad was easier. However, I was more consistant with the 1503, and I felt that places where I would have normally crashed and burned (the jumpy parts, you know what I mean) came out overall better (though I still crashed and burned, haha).
SCORE (Out of 5 Stars): ****.
Day 4 shall be another rest/warm down/fireworks day. Day 5, I wil start on Clarke and Bitsch etudes! Stay tuned, same bat time, same bat channel!