| Phatt,
Go for it, dood!!! My guess is you've already completely mastered the second movement. That one's my favorite. But seriously... Make sure you can hear it well before you play it. Either solfege through it, or play it an octave down on a bigger horn. I would also work out all the transposition issues before picking up the horn. The last thing you want to be doing is killing youself just learning the notes. You'll loose interest real quick doing it that way. Good luck!!
And while we're talking about piccolo trumpet...
Dear Manny,
I'm in an interesting position. I play picc a lot better than I do bigger trumpets. I don't practice picc a lot, but I think something in the way I approach playing in general just makes me better at picc. I don't really have to "keep my picc chops up." Sometimes it stays in the case for months, but when I take it out, it's like I've been playing it all along. The tension that I always have to battle on bigger horns is not as present when I'm playing it.
Recently, I was accepted to the New York String Seminar, but only to play piccolo trumpet on one piece. I sometimes feel like I've traded low trumpet chops for high trumpet chops. Does this make any sense?
Jimi |