Inflexiones
Lesson time: (2min 18sec)
Mike Lovatt muestra cómo dar vida a las frases de trompeta swing con inflexiones y caídas, usando pequeños toques de pistón para dar chispa a una línea.
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This lesson is part of the course Toca swing auténtico en la trompeta
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Lesson transcript:
Adding Spice to Your Music
We've got some good ingredients together now. It's really starting to cook. Let's add some spice to it!
Using Inflections
Did you hear the way that I was playing around with the music there? I was using what we might call inflections. I used the valves to affect the way that I attack a note a semitone lower, like this:
- Onto that G, I played a little F sharp with a little flick onto the G.
If we put that into the whole phrase, it sounds like this. That adds some spice. That's what we're after.
Exploring the End of the Piece
Now, let's look at the end of the piece. The last two notes, if we play them as they're written on the page, sound like this:
[insert sound example]
But what I did was what we call a fall. There are two ways of doing a fall:
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Wiggling the Valves:
It's literally falling from one note to another. We can do that by wiggling the valves and slurring the note. We wiggle the valves and blow through like this:[insert sound example]
We wiggle the valves, and it creates a fall. A little rattling sound like that. It really finishes the piece off really well.
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Half Valve Technique:
The other way is to do it with what we call a half valve on this pea trumpet. I need to show you this way:[insert sound example]
The valves go halfway down, so we get this kind of sound.
Let's dive deeper into these techniques in our next session!
About the instructor
Mike Lovatt estudió en el Trinity College of Music, donde recibió la Jon Kelly Jazz Scholarship. Ha actuado y grabado en una enorme variedad de estilos con artistas como Quincy Jones, Robbie Williams, Eric Clapton, la Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, la Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Buble, Oasis, Michel Legrand, Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey y Danny Elfman, entre muchos otros. Como trompeta principal en el West End de Londres, Mike ha actuado en Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Guys and Dolls, Saturday Night Fever, My Fair Lady y Spamalot, entre otros. Ha tocado en bandas sonoras de películas como las de James Bond, Harry Potter con la London Symphony Orchestra, la premiada Chicago, Beyond the Sea de Kevin Spacey, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Madagascar y The Corpse Bride. Aparece a la trompeta y la corneta en Mrs Henderson Presents de George Fenton, y a la trompeta en Looking for Eric. Mike es trompeta principal de la John Wilson Orchestra, nominada a un Grammy, y ha destacado en sus célebres conciertos y grabaciones de los BBC Promenade. Mike es muy solicitado como profesor y clínico, y es catedrático de trompeta en la Royal Academy of Music y en el Royal College of Music. En abril de 2013 tuvo el orgullo de recibir la prestigiosa Derek Watkins' Chair of Trumpet en la Royal Academy of Music de Londres. En sus cursos de MusicGurus, Mike comparte los secretos de su versatilidad, mostrándote cómo clavar los estilos de trompeta auténticos de swing, rock y latino para que puedas tocar cualquiera de ellos con confianza y el feel adecuado. read more