[Trombone-l] Back to Hary Janos

[jhfloyd@earthlink.net]

Well, I'm not a musicologist, and I'm not one of those guys (who I do admire greatly) who know bass trombone instrument history, with documented proof of what combo valved monster was being played when...

..but I do know that I have played this for countless teachers and this is what they said...

This is what those teachers said.  (thanks mr. Copland)

Gliss from the E natural in 7th up to the Ab in 3rd and do a whole step trill up to a Bb.  Another thought is to do the Jeff Reynolds thing with the same starting note, but slip up to a Bb and trill DOWN to the Ab for an easier technical approach.  Pick the one that sounds best. 

This zerp is an effect and will not win, nor lose the audition for you.  However, the part does say to play the trll at ff, so work on that.  Never could do it with control louder than mf.  

Good luck with that, and the entire audition.

Jay

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From:  "james meador" <jamesmeador at hotmail.com>
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Okay, what I'm looking for is information on the Ab trill in the Battle and 
Defeat of Napolean movement.  It is written to gliss up from an Eb above the 
bass clef staff to the Ab above that, then trill that note.  The trill has a 
flat written over it.

My question is: WHAT IS THE REAL WAY TO PLAY THIS PASSAGE?

I usually start the gliss in 7th (even though that is E natural) and come up 
to the Ab.  Is that right?  What about the trill?  I know several ways to 
play it, and normally I wouldn't stress over it, but now I have to play it 
for an audition, so it needs to be played the RIGHT way.  What is the RIGHT 
way?  (Please don't revert to the ol' 'there's more than one way to play it' 
explanation--I know that.)  But how do you AUDITION on it?

Thanks,
James

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James N. Meador, Bass Trombone
Orquesta Sinfónica de Yucatán
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