Re: How to play Long Low notes loud and without Crack??
Re: How to play Long Low notes loud and without Crack??
02:49 on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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 yazewu (27 points)
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Hi guys
Thanks for giving so many advices and posting so many replys.
I actuall got the idea of playing bass trombone on tuba mouthpiece from either wikipedia or Edward Kleinhammer's book (we haveone in our band library). I cannot remember from which source I read that contrabass trombone players do use tuba mouthpieces. May be tuba mouthpieces are designed partly for countrabass trombones apart from tuba, but not bass trombones.
So I think I'll stick with my 1AL and work more onthe fundermentals.
For tuning, Our band instructor has actually bought the Bach chorales years back, but the band didn't (doesn't) seem to like it very much, frankly it's too slow for teenagers like us... He has stopped doing the chorales partly because of the poor feedback on his idea...
I'll try getting my sectionmates to play them on mouthpiece directly, playing it on instrument will very possibly bore them to death.
The main problem about tuning the section is that there's too many people in the section (for now, 6), even if you tune each person before playing, there's always people getting off-tune later. It's undebatably ultra-time-consuming to get a note in tune with 6 people who usually play different pitches all the time (sad but true). From the reponce to the Bach Chorales, I think they'll give a even more negative responce towards getting in-tune.
Anyway, I'll try my luck on my section for once and try getting my intonation correct in the first place.
By the way, what is your experience when you guys play low Bbs loud? From books I've read that low notes for trombones is naturally a sound of "rattling metal sheets", so is it also natural to crack at loud low Bbs too? Any general suggestion?
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Re: How to play Long Low notes loud and without Crack??
07:48 on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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Re: How to play Long Low notes loud and without Crack??
01:03 on Thursday, February 1, 2007
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Re: How to play Long Low notes loud and without Crack??
04:09 on Thursday, February 1, 2007
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