Re: Why do you play the trombone? Do you know, I can never remember the ranges of the different types of trombones? Every time I write for them, I have to look it up in the Adler orchestration text.
--- Breathing is important! If you don't breathe, your sound will deteriorate, your phrasing will suffer, and you will die.
Re: Why do you play the trombone? Sibelius highlights difficult and unplayable notes
--- The difference between an amateur and a professional: the amateur practises until it's right; the professional practises until it never goes wrong.
Re: Why do you play the trombone? Ah right. well the dark red notes are difficult and the bright red are unplayable. all the black ones are in the range of a good amateur; the dark red (difficult) ones are usually reserved for professionals It got the violin and viola ranges right, and actually on mine it got the clarinet right ...
--- The difference between an amateur and a professional: the amateur practises until it's right; the professional practises until it never goes wrong.
Re: Why do you play the trombone? It depends who sets the copy people get I think.
--- The difference between an amateur and a professional: the amateur practises until it's right; the professional practises until it never goes wrong.
Re: Why do you play the trombone? I'm a bit behind on my orchestration: the only books I've studied are Forsyth, Piston and Burton. However, from reading a lot about trombones on various sites, here is a general idea of range:
Soprano trombone in Bb: e-bb''
Alto trombone in Eb: A-eb''(I'm unsure of pedal range)
Tenor trombone in Bb: E-c''pedal range: E'-Bb'
Tenor trombone with F valve: a fourth lower ( unsure about the low pedal tones however )
Bass trombone in Bb-F: B'-a'pedal range: C'-Bb
Contrabass trombone in F-Bb: E'- f' pedal range: Ab'' or Bb''- F'
Remember the contra needs a lot of air for those low tones.
I guess I am lucky because I play trombone and when I write a trombone part I already know its ranges and technical abilities etc.
Regarding sibelius ranging - has it gotten better in the newer versions, I mean I only have 2 I trust you all have like 3 or 4 and by the time I get version 4, version 10 would most likely be released.
Re: Why do you play the trombone? Yeah, I've got Sibelius 4... but I already told you that. It's great- it does stuff like automatically extracting parts for you and updating them as the score is updated.
--- Breathing is important! If you don't breathe, your sound will deteriorate, your phrasing will suffer, and you will die.
It got the violin and viola ranges right, and actually on mine it got the clarinet right ...
I trust you all have like 3 or 4 and by the time I get version 4, version 10 would most likely be released.