[Trombone-l] Pit Stories

[Chris Tune]

You might like the notation on a chart (Embraceable You) I saw last nite.

Dave Wells (trombonist here in L.A. and you might remember from The Baja
Marimba Band) studio bonist.

"If you have to take a breath during the unison lines, then you are PLAYING
TOO LOUD."

[capitalization added by me--said lines are about four bars long, maybe some
are six or eight. . at a moderate tempo of like 100 to 110 bpm; volume
marked mp or mf, I can't remember now]

I mentioned it to Dave.

He told me the back story:  He was getting pretty p*ssed off about bone
players that would not come down and blend with the unison sections.
Apparently, they were the "just blast on ahead. . " type.

So Dave came up with the written direction above.

I like the fact that Dave writes in . . .[gasp!] English. Nothing fancy,
just something everybody ought to be able to understand.

Chris Tune


-----Original Message-----
From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu [mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu]
On Behalf Of Ray Horton
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:20 PM
To: Harlan Feinstein
Cc: Mailing List - Trombone-L
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Pit Stories

Harlan Feinstein wrote:
> Oh, I guess this isn't precisely a pit story, but I remember doing an  
> early big-band (i.e., 30's style) gig, and one piece of music had the  
> following little box at the top of it:
>
> ---------------------------
> |      TEMPO METER        |
> |                         |
> |              V          |
> | Slow ------------- Fast |
> ---------------------------
>
> There was a little arrow (the "V" in this diagram), somewhere  
> arbitrarily between "slow" and "fast", and the group was expected to  
> get some benefit from this.  If it had any quantifiable bit of info in  
> it, I suppose it could have been useful, but there weren't any units  
> to be found.
>
> --Harlan
>
>   
I love that!  So cute, yet so little help!


Raymond Horton
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