SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Lip Trill’
See the complete archive.Lip Trills
The Mozart horn concertos absolutely require elegant, controlled trills. The most tasteful and elegant musicianship cannot make up for a clumsy or coarse sounding lip trill. A very funny example from the Hilarious Trumpet Bloopers page illustrates the point at the comical extreme: I have heard a few very fine performances — live and recorded [...]
Seven Tips for Cadenzas
A long orchestral tutti builds and builds, leading towards an inevitable resolution and long fermata. The conductor signals a cut-off and after a few seconds, there is nothing but silence in the hall. All eyes are focused on you, the soloist. This is the moment — the cadenza. What are you going to do? Here [...]
Exercise: My Lip Trills Stink!
Some tips on lip trills. In a lesson with a community college student on a Mozart concerto I needed to explain the lip trill. I demonstrated one – which at one time I could do very well – and much to my surprise, it sounded terrible. Since the harmonics of the French horn are close [...]
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