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Originally Posted by loweredsixth Actually, this question is all over the place. Let me se if I can express myself better.
I've been playing trumpet/cornet for 20 years. Every warm up activity or technical activity that I have done has come from a classically trained musician. I was just wondering if there was anything wrong with that.
As I think about it, here are some differences:
1. Jazz players probably play louder on average than classical players.
2. Jazz players probably change their sound within a piece more often than classical players.
3. The amount of actual playing jazz players do is probably more consistent from concert to concert than orchestral players.
4. The style of tonguing is definitely different for jazz players and classical player.
I don't know. Maybe all of this is nonsense. If it is, I'm sorry to waste your time.  |
What you have stated was true........maybe 50 years ago. The orchestral player today has to make an incredible amount of sound. There were no Michael Torke, John Adams or John Williams around, though Copland, Roy Harris and some of the others were beginning to push the dynamics a bit higher. I play a concert that had a theme of the sea that had us ending one piece by Virgil Thompson on fortissimo high Gs and immediately segueing to La Mer.
Having played on both sides of the fence I have to say that I think I have played just as strong in the symphony as I did in the big band.
I would recommend that every musician play chamber music. Brass quintets employ tone color changes that the uninitiated would marvel at.
Today's writers will give you pain........in the chops. Check out Adams, Del Tredici or Louis Andriessen for endurance demands.
You would be surprised at the variety of attacks the players in symphonies do employ.
Quite often I get a chance to play duets with a long time friend, Jimmy Owens. I think of our similarities, trumpet playing, and our differences.
Jimmy is a musician who composes as he goes along. I MUST have notes in front of me to function. We learn from each other.
Man, he gave me a drill based on fourths that is kicking my butt
I could go on all day about out differences and our similarities.
We, trumpet players, have gotten closer together over the years.
Wilmer