Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: Overtones on the trumpet?
How do you play overtones? I've never gotten my hands on any overtones book. I've tried by playing low C and tightening my embouchure. I can only manage another two more octaves higher. After that, no matter how much i tighten, a higher note just won't come out.
Or am i doing it wrong?
Is there a certain way?
What do you mean by overtones? What the term means to me is the notes that are created sympathetically when an interval is played by two instruments and a third note is heard that is the sum of frequencies played. This can be very pronounced depending on the intervals.
What you describe is nothing more that playing seperate octaves. Being to play two octaves above any note is just a function of practice. _________________ Harry Marks
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Overtones on the trumpet?
Anonymous wrote:
How do you play overtones? I've never gotten my hands on any overtones book. I've tried by playing low C and tightening my embouchure. I can only manage another two more octaves higher. After that, no matter how much i tighten, a higher note just won't come out.
Or am i doing it wrong?
Is there a certain way?
I dont' think you are using correct terms. If you play low C, and tighten your lips and go up twice, you played an open G and open C on the third space of the staff. That is two teps on the partial series, not octaves or overtones.
If you are really a beginner, and you are really playing two ocatves higher (high C above the staff) then you are doing something that most beginner trumpet players would love to do.
_________________ "To be a teacher you need to be as good a performer as you can be: you'll have more to impart to your students musically." - John Haynie
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