| Very good points John and Derek,
I've actually printed them out.
John you're right on the mark. I wish there could be a law in trumpet playing that says 'find it and stick to it' method, horn and mouthpiece. Sure we change as we evolve as players but not drastically and after a certain point, I suspect, hardly at all..like you said how many great players play a 3C or something like it. There is always exceptions..but generally those players are either specialists or 'exceptional' and don't get their advice off the internet.
John, the one you left out was if you can't play Double C by the time you leave high school take up knitting (coz you're a girl).
Derek, absolutely correct unfamiliarity is not the same as difficult. I'm always amazed at getting a new piece of music which looks very difficult..black all over the page...more often than not when you start to break it down it's stuff you've encountered before, 'that's just an ascending whole tone scale' or a dominant arppegio. Key signatures similarly...I was given a piece to sight read recently in B major behind a singer and had a young trumpeter next to me lean over and say it was a bitch of a key..'not really you only have to watch for the B and E' and he'd never thought of it that way. By the way it would take a lifetime just to master Arbans and wasn't it Doc that said that you don't practice things till you get them right you practice them until you can't get them wrong?
Regards,
Trevor |