Just this afternoon I was playing in a pit orchestra where the range of my part goes down to a pedal F# and goes up to a high D. Several charts I've played have gone up to a high Eb. If you can play a double Bb, then the high F is in your middle register.īut I do use many of those notes. If you can play a high F, your high Bb is in your middle register and you don't struggle to play it. One reason to reach for these notes: If you never play above high Bb, that's your top note and is the hardest note you play. I'm a big believer in being able to play the entire instrument, from the lowest pedal note on the horn to a double Bb. I'm gonna try helium.actually I'm jealous as heck. for me, it's basically all because of hearing Gordon Campbell on the radio and at the Birmingham ITF when I was a kid.)Īnybody else feel terribly inadequate? This must be a cult of Trombone Castrati. (Also, high ballad playing is the best noise you get out of a trombone. It's one area where my technique doesn't suck, and the closeness of partials and lack of substantial arm movement has a special ease that feels like singing. I can go higher, but at the moment Bb is about as high as I feel I can get in and out musically (that point is getting higher, but it takes time). Hyper is of course right in terms of need. If a horn has a solid high E, and the 5th partial Bb in #5th feels completely neutral, it's probably good. G: #2nd like G4 (4th on horns where that's better, but in most cases either both are usable or neither truly slots)ĭouble Bb: 3rd, moving the slide outwards at that point feels more physically open (not exactly true, but I like the idea and the reminder not to work too hard) or 1stį#: #3rd like F#4 (usually also ok in 1.5th, compared to the #2nd for G) It's just that generally I don't think of those notes belonging more to one position than another in b/# terms, and then I learn their specific place on a given horn)ĭ: 2.5th seems convenient and natural, and I find it hard to love a horn where that 11th partial feels iffy (most Kings). (If I say 2.5 I don't necessarily mean equidistant.
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