Hi,
I've been playing Euphonium for about 4 years, but for our next Areas competition (UK 4th sectioon) our conductor has asked me to switch over to BBb Bass. I've been playing it for about 7 weeks now and am slowly getting better on it, it was a bit of a shock at first! One thing I've noticed is with a lot of the notes between middle C and the next C up (treble clef) there seems to be a lot of room for an error in your pitching - if you're slightly out you get a really rumbling feedback from the instrument (best way I can think to describe it is Euphonium is like a piano keyboard, easy to hit the right note. The bass seems like someone spread the keys apart and put rumble strips in between them... if you slightly miss the note you really know about it). Apart from lots of practise (I've started using my Euphonium warmup routine on it) is there any other thing to think about to avoid this?
Also any other tips (especially in playing bottom the G below middle C really loud? There's a lot of those Gs in our piece)
Thanks
David
I've been playing Euphonium for about 4 years, but for our next Areas competition (UK 4th sectioon) our conductor has asked me to switch over to BBb Bass. I've been playing it for about 7 weeks now and am slowly getting better on it, it was a bit of a shock at first! One thing I've noticed is with a lot of the notes between middle C and the next C up (treble clef) there seems to be a lot of room for an error in your pitching - if you're slightly out you get a really rumbling feedback from the instrument (best way I can think to describe it is Euphonium is like a piano keyboard, easy to hit the right note. The bass seems like someone spread the keys apart and put rumble strips in between them... if you slightly miss the note you really know about it). Apart from lots of practise (I've started using my Euphonium warmup routine on it) is there any other thing to think about to avoid this?
Also any other tips (especially in playing bottom the G below middle C really loud? There's a lot of those Gs in our piece)
Thanks
David
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