If it has abrupt dynamic changes, both you and the piano player should sternly observe them.
The foremost thing to remember, however, is if it sounds entirely stupid, it is. I'm personally a very harsh judge on students who start a fast piece way too fast and drop 10-20 clicks before the end and I know I'm not alone in this.Ī lot of this is going to be attention to dynamic fluxes, and emphasis on certain notes. This guy is playing it a little slower and while we might quibble about his vibrato, he does sound very in control of his instrument. Play only as fast as you can cleanly play an entire section. That's what you want.Īlso, this is a piece you should metronome the shit out of. That's in the "holy shit" level of difficulty on a natural trumpet, but it sounded and looked easy. Like the video recently posted of Brandenburg 2. If someone says something you played sounded hard, that's the biggest backhanded compliment you can get, even if they didn't mean for it to be.
Not that this particular analogy is necessarily apt to this situation, but is there any reason your technical facility in the variations shouldn't sound as effortless as someone playing it on harpsichord? Absolutely not. Not an easy thing on trumpet, but you should make it sound like it is. I usually make the point of hitting the octave key on a saxophone and how easily the octave just immediately slurs up and slots. Listening to other instruments shape phrases in ways that aren't idiomatic to the trumpet can open you mind about things you could try to emulate. Have a good sound concept in your mind, even if it's not necessarily a trumpet. listen to all of them and find the high points. It's easiest to find trumpet players doing it. Also, listen to plenty of other instrumentalists do this. This sort of music can sound really flat without them. Dynamics are going to be really important. Just some thoughts, do with it what you will :)Įveryone has pretty much beat me to the main points I was going to bring up. Can you sing the piece? Can you sing it in tune? You must have a singing quality and you don't need to force your sound.
Think about it and approach the music that way - you sound as if you're breathing when you run out of breath, not when you plan to. You should have marked in your music where you're going to breathe.Try experimenting with using "poo" attacks. Try not to telegraph your notes so much - channel James Stamp "Think up while going down and think down while going up".In the very beginning those upper-neighbor trills should definitely be on the beat, not before it. Do you know what the original piece is? If not, go find it and listen to a number of recordings on different instruments. Are you going to have a pianist at the audition? If not, I would like to hear a recording of you playing sans accompaniment.Just a few quick things that I'm typing while listening:
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