This is pp. 2-3 of (Bordogni/trombone) Rochut bk. II - exercise 86.
Unlike a bunch of the 3 and 4 pagers later on (in books II and III), this one does
not start with a slow section, but - rather - the entire vocalise is written at the same pulse. Last night (finally - after getting sick TWICE...ie. an entire month, and actually
not feeling as hopelessly congested and unable to hear particularly well: eustachian tubes, etc.) - I felt pretty good, and - cutting off working out at the shop at dinnertime, rather than going on and eating a late dinner - I felt like a actually had a bit of energy left...so I went through SEVERAL of these in a row. I thought I might do yet another, got through the first of three pages, but decided that I was getting tired and needed to crawl into bed...so - this morning - these two pages remained.
LOL...YES..."
down an octave"...I only play through these - occasionally -
loco on the F tuba or F cimbasso...(To do otherwise would be loco.)
It's not blazing fast - only
♩ = 108 (roughly "Vaughan Williams-
ish" tempo), but/and I'm attracted to such
bel canto exercises (particularly in these sorts of key signatures) when working with the really large and really-large-bore BB-flat tuba, as such keys tend to present MORE crossing of partials (as contrasted with keys signatures featuring just a one, two, or three flats).
In other words, these exercises EXERCISE me, and work me on things on which I need to WORK (ie. towards perfecting legato playing with this behemoth).
ok...more hyping of the mouthpiece:
The MAIN THING I like about this
particular mouthpiece (vs. other very similar "Sellmansberger" designs) is the SUPER-EASY SLURRING.
(why...?? I have no idea...again: I'm a trial-and-error person.)
OK...I VERY MUCH LIKE the evenness of the quality/type of sound throughout the various octaves of pitch ranges, and the ease of playing that I'm experiencing, but (seriously...) SLURS !!! It's reminiscent of playing the F tuba, the euphonium, or (OK...) a much smaller contrabass...
...so - whereas an exercise such as this one could EASILY seem to be quite tedious - I'm able to actually LISTEN to the vocalise, and ENJOY the melodic contours (vs. struggling to play through them and barely listening to what's happening).
bloke "OK...on to the last two or three in this book, and - then - out to the dungeon: to work on peeps' tubas."
photo by $99 Motorola model cheapest-one-they-had-in-the-store
also...
After quite a few years, I had an opportunity to play
Don Juan, once again, last month.
One of my colleagues took their video camera up into the catwalk and recorded the concert.
It's always interesting to hear yourself play "standard rep" - particularly when your instrument is a not-common model and (sure) that not-common model is being played with a new (at that time, "unique") mouthpiece. I was quite satisfied with what I heard out of the low brass - on the recording.
