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The journey of a growing multi-instrumentalist and her composing.
This week has been pretty crazy, I've continued practicing improvisation on all of my instruments, but it hasn't been easy. Every musician knows how difficult it is to play with a stuffy nose and a sore throat; that's just what happened to me. However I'm still pushing forward regardless of my terrible allergies. I learned this week that my alto saxophone has some type of issue that causes it to have a very strange tone.
I'm still unsure what is causing it to sound so strange, but I need to take it to my local music shop. I still practiced my alto saxophone regardless of its issues, and I've made some progress! I've also started trumpet lessons as of two weeks ago with my band director Mr. Brusseau, he's helped me greatly with my tone and articulation. If anyone was wondering why I haven't mentioned my trombone, It's because I plan on playing it last. Since my primary instrument is a trumpet (high brass), which has a smaller mouthpiece (3c-5c). It makes it very difficult to play on a low brass instrument such as trombone (12c-17c) consistently without completely blowing out my embouchure due to its larger mouthpiece. A 12c mouthpiece (trombone) and a 5c (trumpet) are two very different mouthpiece sizes. Although a 12c mouthpiece falls into the smaller range trombone mouthpieces. I've been working on playing some jazz scales on my Gretsch guitar as well as some chords for some nice bass support for the melody. I also had this really interesting idea to add a accelerando at the last few phrases of the piece. I'm very excited to continue making rough drafts these next couple weeks!
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Reece
3/22/2023 06:08:10 am
That was very informal and im interested to see how it goes now.
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AuthorI'm Hannah Baldwin, I'm a sophomore in highschool and I'm apart of my high-school Symphonic Band and marching band. I play multiple instruments such as trumpet, alto saxophone, trombone and guitar. I love composing music. Archives
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