Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject: Other instruments
I dearly wish that I had been started on the piano. It would have helped my cornet training immensely. I have several friends who were thus started and they instantly excelled. Along with this, to be able to play another instrument would be so cool.
I can play all the brass instruments pretty well, and play a pretty mean clarinet and sax. My skills on flute are pretty bad and I'm working on that this year so I can start playing it in church when a flute part is called for and I'm already there playing my trumpet. I have played set in a band that toured Europe and Canada but would never refer to myself as a drummer. I would also never accept a job playing sax or clarinet (I could play the parts with no problem) because I just don't enjoy playing reed instruments.
Like Lou, I wish I could be more proficient at piano. I have tried so hard to develop piano skills but all I develop is a backache. I love that beautiful instrument, and my wife was a piano major in college so I hear her play all the time. If I could give up being able to play all the others in favor of the piano I would make that trade in a second! _________________ "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
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: Piano, guitar, harmonicas
Yes. I play the piano, guitar, and harmonicas. Taught elementary, middle school, and high school band for 8 years so I technically could play all instruments but the three I mentioned are my primary source of playing with trumpet being the top of the list.
As the young guys say.......Trumpets Rule.
My primary instrument is drums, but I grew up playing clarinet and tenor saxophone. I can play a little guitar, ukulele and harmonica. I am just starting out on the trumpet and flugelhorn. I would also like to learn how to play piano.
"The trumpet is my main instrument" is a rather bold statement for me. I've been playing a lot of guitar recently, and that, along with writing and MIDI skills, have been paying the bills. And, yes, I do try to work in a lot of trumpet/brass parts for the commercial music I write!
I no longer play any other instruments but at one time I played euphonium as well as trumpet. Even went so far as playing both in the same concert and on the same piece of music.
I was much younger then. _________________ Harry Marks
I was palying a euhphonium for about half a year and I still play it,but quite seldomly.
I would suggest,for anyone who wants to learn a lower instrument from the trumpet,he should always continue practicing the trumpet,because once you coe back to iy,you're gonna loose everything,yes I mean it.
I lost al my tounging,embouchure,range etc.... and my fingering too..i was too used to the 4 valve alternatives that i hurt my pinky ALOT cos i used to hit the fingerhook!!
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