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[NLB2]

I talk about being a music major and playing the trombone a lot so I decided to post a recording of me playing. Its not the best I've ever played, but it was the best I played in the fifteen minutes I was in the studio before I got kicked out at midnight. Comments are welcome.
http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XQ6Y02T07JLD30M5J5YE1HT9W

 

[Tarazet]

Pretty insipid tune, but very nice playing. Trombone players amaze me, I couldn't just pick notes out of a hat like that. I can rarely hit all the right notes when they're arrayed in 88 neat little keys in a pattern in front of me.

 

[NLB2]

Pretty insipid tune, but very nice playing. Trombone players amaze me, I couldn't just pick notes out of a hat like that. I can rarely hit all the right notes when they're arrayed in 88 neat little keys in a pattern in front of me.

Yeah, but I bet you have better intonation :-(.

Let's hear something from you, sonarrat!

 

[demon]

You're okay.

But that piano playing is fucking BRILLIANT!

 

[Tarazet]

Actually, I'm giving my junior recital in a week. I'll be having the whole thing professionally recorded, so hold that thought.

PS - if anyone's in the SF bay area that would like to come, PM me and I'll give you details. I'd love it if people came to hear me.

 

[NLB2]

You're okay.

But that piano playing is fucking BRILLIANT!

lol, yeah computerized accompanists suck.

Can't wait to hear your recital. What are you playing?

 

[Tarazet]

lol, yeah computerized accompanists suck.

Can't wait to hear your recital. What are you playing?

I'll cut and paste from the program:

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Novelletten, Op. 21 (1838)
No. 6: Sehr lebhaft, mit vielem Humor
No. 4: Ballmässig. Sehr munter

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Sechs (6) Kleine Klavierstucke, Op. 19 (1909)
i. Leicht, zart
ii. Langsam
iii. Sehr langsame
iv. Rasch
v. Sehr rasch
vi. Sehr langsame

INTERMISSION

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Un Sospiro (from Trois Etudes de concert), S. 144/3 (1848)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (1795-7)
i. Molto Allegro e con brio
ii. Molto Adagio
iii. Finale. Prestissimo

 

[Mashing]

I played Trombone in high school (marching band rocked btw... I find myself missing that sometimes)... but I never practiced and I wasn't very good. If I could do it over, I'd definately put more effort into it.

 

[cvxfreak]

I used to play the trombone, and I still own my trombone too. I need to get back into it sometime...

 

[teiresias]

I was a music major my first year of college, played trombone, it's been sitting in the corner begging me to play it again, but I doubt I'd be able to even play anything above the D above the staff at this point :lol

Then I was a theatre major (lighting design) for about a semester, then I switched to engineering, then was about to go back to theatre as either stage management or acting after a semester, but the school of engineering offered me a free-ride in scholarship money so I stayed in engineering.

Oh, the paths we take sometimes.

 

[NLB2]

I was a music major my first year of college, played trombone, it's been sitting in the corner begging me to play it again, but I doubt I'd be able to even play anything above the D above the staff at this point :lol

Then I was a theatre major (lighting design) for about a semester, then I switched to engineering, then was about to go back to theatre as either stage management or acting after a semester, but the school of engineering offered me a free-ride in scholarship money so I stayed in engineering.

Oh, the paths we take sometimes.

I know what you mean. I'll probably end up being a lawyer or something shitty like that.

Its amazing to see all of the trombonists coming out of the woodwork. Didn't realize there were so many of you. And I didn't realize there could be gay trombonists, either.

 

[teiresias]

Me and my best friend circa-1997 whenever we had our Pops on the Lawn concert my senior year (she played flute and piccolo):

Note the horrid shirt (it's damn shameful), and yes the hair is massive, it was known as "The Poof."

 

[Matlock]

That looks like someone took a shit on your head, dude.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Very good. You have good tone, well played. I'll have to eventually put some of my stuff on here.

 

[NLB2]

Very good. You have good tone, well played. I'll have to eventually put some of my stuff on here.

Thank you sir. What do you play?

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Guitar. Mostly improvisational stuff.

 

[NLB2]

Guitar. Mostly improvisational stuff.

Oh yeah, I think we talked about schools before. I can't wait to hear you play. It'll be a lot of fun to hear my peers play (and not the ones I goto school with).