How is this possible?

BigDub

The question I have is about the staccato notes. They are tied. Then there are qtr rests between them. I realize this is not specifically a trumpet part, but regardless, how would you play these, if asked?

administrator

@bigdub Separated -- "stacatto", but not "short".

GeorgeB

@bigdub

Certainly a good question I have never run into it with any of our band arrangements, but the answer can only be as the administrator stated.

Dr GO

Trade off and on with the chair sitting next to me?

Dr GO

Seriously:

This is a marking used for string instruments, which can play notes all on the same bowstroke but separated. Piano music may notate this with the intention to imitate strings that is to join the notes but not completely. This is termed portato and is described as an effect midway between legato (smoothly joined) and staccato (completely separated).

Dr GO

Here is another "How is this possible?" siting more relevant to the trumpet. I was just handed a Michael Buble arrangement "Feeling Good". The chart has 3 (count them) 3 phrases were the ending note is the double high C. This has got to be the highest, chart written note I have experienced. No problem, popped them off like pieces of candy. The sax section at the end of the song announced it was an impressive sound. It was.

barliman2001

When I was still playing the piano - my mother's instrument of choice, and before I luckily cut one of the nerves in my right hand and was unable to continue - this marking was explained to me as portato, meaning "staccato, but not quite so short", separate notes, but not hacked into the keyboard quite so hard as in staccato proper.

Dale Proctor

I’ve seen something like that in trumpet music, and was told tied notes with staccato markings were to be soft-tongued with enough emphasis to for two distinct notes to be slightly heard.

BigDub

@dale-proctor
I listened to the piece on YouTube. In my opinion, the effect could easily be accomplished with more conventional notation…
But that is just my opinion

administrator

The ties have the effect of keeping a phrase together, while the dots mean the notes are still separated.

GeorgeB

@dr-go

Double high C ? Wow. I couldn't play DHC in my youth let alone in my mid 80s. And you just popped them off like pieces of candy ??????? My hat is off to you, sir.

Our band plays an arrangement of Buble's JUST HAVEN'T MET YOU YET and that is peppered with As and Bs above the staff, but no high C's and certainly no DHCs. Our lead player would have a heart attack if he had to play a DHC.

Dr GO

@georgeb said in How is this possible?:

@dr-go

Double high C ? Wow. I couldn't play DHC in my youth let alone in my mid 80s. And you just popped them off like pieces of candy ??????? My hat is off to you, sir.

Using my Harrelson Summit with Jason's 5mm Jettone Studio B copy makes this so easy, albeit I was practicing the chart last evening before our concert on Thursday with my Getzen Power bore and the original Jettone Studio B mouthpiece (gifted to me by Maynard Ferguson) and that horn also popped out the DHC's with minimal effort.

The wild part about one of the phrases is the last three notes in the phrase is the half note G just above the staff followed by the eight note Bb then double high C whole note. That jump from the G to that Bb is the real challenge. The DHC then just falls into place.

GeorgeB

@dr-go
I suppose having the right equipment helps, but an F above high C for me only happens on a good day, so at my age I doubt even a Harrelson Summit would help me get to DHC.

Besides, Doc, what videos I've seen of you playing puts you in a professional's chair as far as I'm concerned. I'm just an old recreational player.