[Trombone-l] Back to Hary Janos

[james meador]

What I've always done is start on e in 7th (even though it is marked e flat) 
and gliss up to Ab flat and do a valve trill.  I have always believed it is 
the effect than matters, not the notes of the trill.  I would feel extremely 
comfortable doing this in a concert.  However, for an audition, I want to 
make sure that I don't get cut for doing it that way, and I just don't know 
what the general consensus is.  I can do lip trills, but not so good up in 
that register, so I figure whichever way I sound the best is the way I 
should do the passage.  I'm working lip trills like crazy though!

James

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James N. Meador, Bass Trombone
Orquesta Sinfónica de Yucatán
011-52-999-221-5845 cell
jamesmeador at hotmail.com

From: Gabriel Langfur <glangfur at yahoo.com>
To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Back to Hary Janos
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 7:16 PM
Honestly, I start the E flat in 3rd, break the gliss, and do a shake between 
an A flat and B
flat in 1st. I can't really do lip trills, and this sounds acceptable to me, 
particularly since
I was always taught to play a real C and break the gliss to F# in the 
passage before it.

Whatever works...

Gabe

----- Original Message ----
From: james meador <jamesmeador at hotmail.com>
To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:11:15 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] Back to Hary Janos

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
011-52-999-221-5845 cell
jamesmeador at hotmail.com