Trumpeting in Bb
Today I managed to play (piano tune) small C and 3C, the latter in a downstairs scale to 2F or so. I was able to play it multiple times although never in upstairs scale, and frankly I do not like the sound very much.
In the middle register sound is frequently (frequently now, but not always, and it was ‘rarely’ couple of months ago) interesting (imho of course), full of overtones and kind of ringing, while higher register sounds just like a plain tune. But I will extend it further.
Listened quite a few melodies played by professional trumpeters and found that most of them (besides loving the highest register) frequently play staccato (did I get it right that it is a set of short sounds very quickly following one after another). I can not do it that way, only sometimes my attepmts sound good, but usually it is a bit slower than needed. I still do not know how to use tune durations written on the sheet, so I play like I would like it to sound, which may be not right though.
Found that professional records are very rich even on the highest registers, which is definitely not the case for my playing (besides the fact that I rarely able to play there at all).
Another issue I discovered is small octave sound. Sometimes it just bloody good IMO, but again it happens rarely, most of the time it is kind of damped, there are no fresh, ringing overtones.
Decided to force myself to do the regular trumpet, piano, painting and reading ‘trainings’, the former several times a week at the morning, all the latters at the late evening when I return from the office (usually an hour or so for one of the tasks after 12).
If stars will draw up into the straight line I will play with a trumpet teacher, but I’m not 100% sure it will happen though.
Sometimes I think about getting a new trumpet, a bit more serious lead instrument (like Yamaha 4xxx or even Bach 37 or 43, I think I can afford another toy for myself :), although I like my $150 J. Michael 300S one.
I do want to hear how others sound in a real life and not in edited records though.
But no matter what, I see the progress and result, even on my own, which is a great pushing force to continue the process. Stay tuned, maybe eventually you will hear something interesting!
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This should get you started…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kousGJgHt4
How about this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOtozvmyzI&feature=related
I usually can play rather not bad (as I think of course) upto 2F, sometimes to 2g/2g#.
Harmony scale can be higher (and I usually play it downstairs, its simpler).
Anything higher 2F does not always sound good, it is like plain tune without overtones. Upto 2D/2E sounds are almost always (i.e. until I’m tired) good.
Although friend of mine said that really good trumpet sound only appears after 3 years of practice (he had more than 7). He did not hear mine, although I did not hear any interesting live compositions myself, usually it was filled with screams :)
Maynard goes up to double high C with ease. Is that 3c or 4c in your terms? Of course it took a life time to get there. There are very few players that can play that high. He was the first one.
There are lots of video on youtube teaching how to play.
is likely 4C or higher – 3C should be pretty much common these days, even I can reach it sometimes :)
I watched youtube – it is really not a live sound, I can not compare mine with what I hear, since recorded one is either edited (if it is a professional record), or damaged by the microphone and environment. I can use it to hear the technically complex moments like staccato though.
I think I should start visiting some jazz concerts to get in touch with the live sound.
Also try Night in Tunisia by Clifford Brown.
This recording is not very good. It sounds much better on CD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFjsy0MMB4
Night in Tunisia is a jazz classic. All of the masters have recorded it.
Can you get into last.fm or spotify? they should have these recordings.
That looks doable for my technique level, I will listen it and maybe try to play myself.
Get a Fake Book for jazz. Something like this:
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.jazz.html
thanks for the reference, I will take a look if I will find something like that here.
But what I listened from the old-school jazz did not really impressed me, although I suppose I will find som interesting compositions there.