Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Google Day Two (Update 10/5/11)

Today was our second Google day in band. I spent the time in one of the practice rooms, where it was quiet (save one violin), and I finished transposing my music.  For that last four pages, I saved a lot of time by just writing one note over the measure, because the whole part was a bunch of high-low octave sixteenth notes. 

I also played through the song once on trumpet.  The hardest parts are going to be the piano riffs that are written with sixteenth, thirty-second, and sixty-fourth notes.  I may have to slow those down slightly, because I'm not sure if it is physically possible for me to finger that fast holding the trumpet with only one hand.  I tried playing with a recording of the song as well, but I stopped because I realized that I had transposed my piece down a key, so it was one key off and thus sounded bad with the recording.

2 comments:

  1. I am going to be very impressed if you can pull this off!

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  2. I also like the picture of the trumpet you have as your header.

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