marc.yo

what's up?? I'm new here and I am looking to pick up coronet in specific but i will probably learn trumpet as well. I currently play jazz guitar and euphonium. i will have a seperate post in the horns area about what to look for, different tonal things, etc. I am a member of the Seymour Duncan guitar pickup forums...so i can hear tonal differences and i tend to think i know a bit about guitar tone and euphonium tone but i guess that's anyone's guess.

if you guys want to hear a pretty rough guitar improv piece over a messed up sooooo what. I know, the main rythm is messed up...i've only been playing guitar 4 years so i'm getting acclamaited to jazz guitar. here she is. plz excuse the rough playing, aparrently i wasn't paying a lot of attn that day.

i'd like to learn coronet, mainly for improv pieces. but obviously i would learn it for other applications and eventually trumpet

I've been in music since 5th grade with euphonium and about then with guitar as well, so i don't plan on stopping, ever. So I am looking to expand my musical instrument pallette.


for guitar; i'd say my biggest strength is phrasing...but my biggest weakness is rythmic feel. i'm still getting used to swing. i went to shell lake arts center for guitar over the last summer and it was awesome!!! it really improved all aspects of my playing!! highly reccomended!

as for euphonium, i'm an overall pretty good player. I am in my high school's honor band as second chair out of three, with the top guy being two years older than me. i'm obviously not a god. but, hey, i'm workin on it


thanks
-marc

marc.yo

oops, i forgot some details!!!

my favorite genres of music to play on guitar are definately indie and jazz - bebop in specific. I'm a huge fan of davis, coltrane, monk, jj johnson, and especially charlie christian. although my favorite davis era has got to be the cool jazz era. with songs like so what amongst others. other favorites include gypsy music...like django reinhardt.

i also like salsa and latin/carribean music. which i know is a wide genre.

to be honest, i'll listen to anything

as far as the euphonium i play anything my teacher puts in front of me (obviously). but my favorite things to play are scales!!!! lol, just kidding. however i really do like pieces like Ascension (inspired by Daunte's Inferno), pieces like Puszta (more gypsy stuff), and marches. maybe that's just cuz they feature low brass (t-bones and euphoniums) during the trio section.

but i also own my dad's old Holton trombone made in Elkhorn WI. it's a pretty dece trombone. it has a G attachment!!! which i find very useful. i need to get it maintnenced. i cleaned it out with warm water and the like but i need to get it properly maintnenced, as before i brought it out it hadn't been touched in a long time.

for euphonium mouthpiece (as well as my marching band baritone), i use more or less the industry std, a Bach 6-1/2AL. for t-bone (which i don't consider myself a player of, but im learning) i use a 7C, which gets a nice, bright sound.

i know almost nothing about trumpet/coronet mouthpieces, tone, or the horns in general. so this should be a fun education experience!!

please see my other post in the horns area (i guess?)

thanks so much

administrator

Welcome to the TM Marc! Great to have you here!

marc.yo

thanks for welcoming me! it's nice to be here. it seems to be a wonderful place with knowledgable players everywhere!

Vulgano Brother

Yo, marc.yo! Welcome to TM--do you play bass clef euphonium or treble cleff?

marc.yo

i play BC.

however i do know the TC fairly well from guitar