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What is easier to switch?

Post by ImpulseBaritone07 » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:36 pm

ok so what is easier to do? is it easier to switch from a brass instrument to a woodwind instrument or is it hard to to switch from brass instrument to another?

for me i think switching from one brass to another brass is easier but its a really hard switch. Right now my main istrument is Bass Trombone and I am doing Drum Corps and for concert seson I am playing French Horn, My BT Mouthpiece is the biggest the Bari Mouthpiece is a bit smaller and and the FH mouthpiece is the smallest that I use, I think that if you embochure switcher you can do anything, its really hard to do it as well but you'll get it. The hardest part making sure that say the FH sound of the mouthpiece doesnt make you to lose your chops for BT or Bari mouthpieces. thats what I think. What do you everyone else think?
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Post by bassoonuba » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:29 pm

I played a few woodwind instruments before picking up tuba. One I learned tuba it was extremely easy for me to learn to play trumpet, horn, and baritone. The fingerings are the same. Once I learned how slide position corresponded to valve fingerings even picking up trombone was easy.

Morale... brass to brass is much easier than going to a woodwind. ;)
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Post by Jakob der ludner » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:40 pm

bassoonuba wrote:I played a few woodwind instruments before picking up tuba. One I learned tuba it was extremely easy for me to learn to play trumpet, horn, and baritone. The fingerings are the same. Once I learned how slide position corresponded to valve fingerings even picking up trombone was easy.

Morale... brass to brass is much easier than going to a woodwind. ;)
true that, and vice versa. Most woodwinds have corresponding fingerings, so it's fiarly easy to learn. THe only exception are double reeds, which are hard to learn period.
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Post by bassoonuba » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:59 am

Yup. That's true also; clarinet to t. sax was one of the easiest transitions I had. ;)
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Post by FluteOfTheNewWorld » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:37 pm

I switched from woodwind to brass... it wasn't too hard after a few weeks..
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Post by Not2Cre8tive » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:19 am

FluteOfTheNewWorld wrote:I switched from woodwind to brass... it wasn't too hard after a few weeks..
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the only problem for me was.. i was used to a light flute going to a heavy tuba ;) but thats only a problem for a day or so :)
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Post by bassoonuba » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:24 am

Yeah. Tuba is nice and heavy and I've played it for years but, I could never hold a flute up for hours. My arms start to shake and the angle just gets lower and lower. I have to give credit to the flute players for being able to do it day after day (especially those who play bass or alto flute). ;)
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Post by Not2Cre8tive » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:57 pm

bassoonuba wrote:Yeah. Tuba is nice and heavy and I've played it for years but, I could never hold a flute up for hours. My arms start to shake and the angle just gets lower and lower. I have to give credit to the flute players for being able to do it day after day (especially those who play bass or alto flute). ;)
lol? you held tuba ok but Flute? was challenging? o_0

shouldnt it be other way around
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Post by thom » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:10 pm

Not2Cre8tive wrote:
bassoonuba wrote:Yeah. Tuba is nice and heavy and I've played it for years but, I could never hold a flute up for hours. My arms start to shake and the angle just gets lower and lower. I have to give credit to the flute players for being able to do it day after day (especially those who play bass or alto flute). ;)
lol? you held tuba ok but Flute? was challenging? o_0

shouldnt it be other way around
Why??????

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Post by bassoonuba » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:42 pm

thom wrote:
Not2Cre8tive wrote:
bassoonuba wrote:Yeah. Tuba is nice and heavy and I've played it for years but, I could never hold a flute up for hours. My arms start to shake and the angle just gets lower and lower. I have to give credit to the flute players for being able to do it day after day (especially those who play bass or alto flute). ;)
lol? you held tuba ok but Flute? was challenging? o_0

shouldnt it be other way around
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Tuba rests on your shoulder.....Flute does not!
Exactly. The sousaphone would hurt your shoulder every now and then when playing a long set but, you could still "play through the pain." If you play flute and you start to hurt the instrument will fall and your intonation gets horrific.
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Post by Not2Cre8tive » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:38 pm

bassoonuba wrote:
thom wrote:
Not2Cre8tive wrote: lol? you held tuba ok but Flute? was challenging? o_0

shouldnt it be other way around
Why??????

Tuba rests on your shoulder.....Flute does not!
Exactly. The sousaphone would hurt your shoulder every now and then when playing a long set but, you could still "play through the pain." If you play flute and you start to hurt the instrument will fall and your intonation gets horrific.

meh. ive marched with a flute.. they would put pncils in it so if it fell out.. it was 50 push ups for the whole section for how ever many people dropped em.

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Post by LoyalTubist » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:31 pm

All brasswinds are played exactly the same way. The lips vibrate, which creates sound. You really shouldn't buzz your lips together; there should be an aperture between your lips. That produces a nice clear sound. If you actually buzz your lips together, you will sound like the trombone player from Spike Jones's City Slickers, which is OK if that's how you want to sound! Trumpets have a tendency to create tension in the lip corners. Cornets feel the most comfortable to most people. Tubas require the most control, which is done at the lip corners.

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Post by musicallife » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:16 pm

You just have to get used to the different mouthpieces. I played trombone in jazz and Horn in concert, sometimes a little trumpet. I sometimes would have to switch off in 2 min. or less. It just depends on what you practice. I have even switched instruments in the same song! I went from small to big so it seemed really easy to pick-up. It might help if you can get the higher trombone part then it would be so hard, I was 2nd and 1st sometimes. You'll get used to it in time.
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