Lay Down The Bass (performance)
Lesson time: (2min 51sec)
Kay Charlton performs Lay Down The Bass on the trumpet
Course preview
This lesson is part of the course Are You Ready part 2: 7 more tunes to learn the trumpet
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Lesson transcript:
Music Lesson: Lay Down the Bass
This song is called Lay Down the Bass and it uses our four notes: C, D, E, and F.
Overview
- Essentially, we're going up the scale but with a kind of club dance groove.
- This approach makes the backing a bit more interesting.
Focus on Dynamics
Every time we play our scale, we're going to try and:
- Start slowly
- Get louder as we progress
Introduction
Let's begin with our introduction of 16 bars:
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First Eight Bars
- Trumpet's ready.
- Start on C.
- Go up the scale slowly.
- Start softly.
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Four Bars Rest
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Next Section
- Same thing: start softly.
- This next bit starts on E.
Gradually Increasing Volume
Now, we will start getting louder. Here we go:
- Eight Bars
- Followed by four more Bars.
Get ready. Scale All!
About the instructor
Kay is a trumpet player, composer and teacher of brass and curriculum music, specialising in primary classroom teaching - KS2, First Access/WCET (whole-class ensemble teaching, where a class learns an instrument together) and teacher CPD (continuing professional development). She completed a Masters in Music Education - 'Teaching Musician' at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2018. Kay plays trumpet with the Bollywood Brass Band, a 9-piece band of brass and drums whose 2017 CD Carnatic Connection was nominated for a Songlines Magazine 'World Music Award' and given a 5-star review in the London Evening Standard. Kay composes and arranges for the band and leads on their education work, founding the Bollywood Brass Academy in 2017. Kay has presented her research into whole-class teaching at the Music Education Expo and the First Access Forum. She has designed and led CPD for LSO Discovery, Trinity College London, Music Education Solutions and the Bollywood Brass Band, and is an education consultant for Warwick Music. Kay's book of beginner repertoire, 'Are You Ready?', is published by Warwick Music; in 2017 Kay was commissioned by Warwick Music and Music Education Solutions to compose songs for a new KS1 scheme of work for the pBuzz, which was nominated as 'Education Resource of 2018' by the 'Education Awards'. Other publications include pieces for Trinity's Initial (2015/2018) and Grade 1 (2018) piano syllabus, Bollywood Blast! (Spartan Press) - a series of brass and wind tutor books with backing tracks in a Bollywood style - and Whole Class Bollywood Blast with David Rose (Bedford Music Hub), which is aimed at teachers of whole-class instrumental lessons and includes an Arts Award Discover programme. Her MusicGurus courses bring that classroom experience straight to you: from your very first trumpet lesson through two sets of tunes for beginners, Kay sets out exactly what to play and how to play it. www.kaycharlton.co.uk read more