An Inspiration Recording

Welcome to KIM, EmeraldRose.

PewterSong is online

PewterSong: hi

PewterSong: did you get to pick your instrument today?

EmeraldRose: yeah

EmeraldRose: got to try all of them

EmeraldRose: even the mighty tuba

EmeraldRose: my top three were tuba, flute, or saxophone

EmeraldRose: but they had plenty of flutes and saxophones

EmeraldRose: so they put me on euphonium in preparation for switching to tuba if I want to when I get to middle school.

EmeraldRose: can't you play one of those?

PewterSong: yes

PewterSong has sent EmeraldRose the picture "PSEuph.jpg"

EmeraldRose: Ooh, yours is a silver one!

PewterSong: i took a slightly different version of the path you want to take

PewterSong: started on trombone

PewterSong: then they had a shortage of tubas

PewterSong: so they put me on euph in hopes I would step in and move up to tuba.

PewterSong: but I grew to love the euph's sound so much

PewterSong: I stuck with it

PewterSong: it wasn't too big a switch

PewterSong: just had to translate slide positions to valve fingerings.

EmeraldRose: give me a set of valves over a slide any day

PewterSong: valves makes some ornamentation a lot easier

PewterSong: but on a trombone you can do what's called a lip trill

PewterSong: easy way to wow an audience

EmeraldRose: i bet

EmeraldRose: so anyway, i'm going through the famous Marotta etudes

PewterSong: (meant for trombone, but often done on euph as well)

EmeraldRose: I'm struggling on #2

EmeraldRose: Either I go too slow or rush

EmeraldRose: and those clusters of quick notes trip me up

PewterSong: Hm...

PewterSong: Rather than me trying to explain it to you over the IM

PewterSong: What I can do is make you an "inspiration recording" of me playing it

PewterSong: so you can hear what it should sound like

EmeraldRose: sure!

EmeraldRose: Mom's calling for dinner

PewterSong: I'll be making your inspiration recording while you eat dinner, okay?

EmeraldRose: ok

EmeraldRose is away.

PewterSong is away.

[An hour or so later...]

EmeraldRose: mm, good meatloaf.

PewterSong has sent EmeraldRose the audio file "PSMarotta02.mp3"

PewterSong has sent EmeraldRose the text file "EtudetipsMarotta02.txt"

EmeraldRose: What's the text file for?

PewterSong: some tips and advice on playing this etude well

EmeraldRose: Ah, ok

EmeraldRose: oh wow!

EmeraldRose: your version sounds so pretty!

PewterSong: That came from lots of diligent practice.

EmeraldRose: I'm gonna go practice right now!

PewterSong: Just listen to that when you're feeling discouraged.

PewterSong: and don't be afraid to record yourself.

EmeraldRose: ok

EmeraldRose: I kinda have to make a recording for my lessons at school

EmeraldRose: but I'll get you listen to it before I turn it in.

PewterSong: ok

EmeraldRose, logging off

PewterSong, logging off