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 Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:11 pm
okay so i play the trumpet and want to really want to start playing the french horn. but how am i supposed to convince my band directors that i love the trumpet, and am dedicated to it, but want to play the french horn also? any ideas? any opinions?
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:31 pm
Just say, "I'd like to play French horn, and I just won't play it during class."
or "May I please march mellophone?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:10 pm
I switched from the clarinet to the bass clari just by seeing one of my band mates play it. My band director told me i should try it and i said sure why not?? I think you should say "Hey, Mr (his name) The french horn looks intresting. I've taken a look at its notes and stuff, could I possibly try it out..?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:13 pm
I talked myself from flute to bass clarinet by asking my BD if I could play bari sax
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:51 am
you could send him an email or talk to him and say "i absolutely love trumpet, but to have a full mastery of the most instruments i would really like to start playing french horn also." and make it sound all professional, but the main thing is to make sure that he knows you really want to play both
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:56 pm
wnnabet13 you could send him an email or talk to him and say "i absolutely love trumpet, but to have a full mastery of the most instruments i would really like to start playing french horn also." and make it sound all professional, but the main thing is to make sure that he knows you really want to play both exactly just tell your band director that you are interested in furthuring your talents in the brass section of your band and would like to try the french horn out, most of the time unless there is an over abundance of that particualr insturment in your band they usually have no problem with saying yes or giving you a try, look on the bright side the worst your band director could do is tell you no thank you, go for it, if you really have the passion for it you should give it your all!
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:18 pm
I was in your same spot last year! What I ended up doing was playing horn in concert band and trumpet in jazz band. I must say in my case playing horn dropped my trumpet range a bit, but I admit I *was* neglecting the ol' trumpet stressed
On a side note, I did actually send my director an e-mail. The situtation was we had 6 trumpets and 1 horn, thus elfie got switched over. Sadly, the tide has turned and this year there weren't enough trumpets. Elfie no longer plays horn... cry
Horns rock.
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:09 pm
[Aelfwyn]
I was in your same spot last year! What I ended up doing was playing horn in concert band and trumpet in jazz band. I must say in my case playing horn dropped my trumpet range a bit, but I admit I *was* neglecting the ol' trumpet stressed
On a side note, I did actually send my director an e-mail. The situtation was we had 6 trumpets and 1 horn, thus elfie got switched over. Sadly, the tide has turned and this year there weren't enough trumpets. Elfie no longer plays horn... cry
Horns rock.
Exactly my fear! Also my parents are afraid of my becoming only kind of good at both! They dont think that i should do it, but i have one of those crazy instincts thats telling me to do it! thank you for all the help! it has helped heaps!
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