[TPIN] Auxiliary / Backward fingering (WAS: 20 Greatest...)

[Mark Deaton]

Hmm. possibly.  To quote Freddie, "there are some passages that one can't
play unless they do use the style of fingering that Dizzy teaches."  So, the
theory is that if you're playing up around high C, D and E, you'd better be
using alternate fingerings, because you can, in fact, play each of those
notes open (no valves), which makes bebopping around up there hard if you
don't have the help provided by valve changes?  Is that it?  Hmm.
Interesting.  Never thought of that, because I don't usually bebop around
much above high C.  I did accidentally hit a D in a solo yesterday, though,
where I was intending to hit an E (played open).  Perhaps if I had used
third valve. hmm. ponder. ponder.

 

Food for thought.  Thanks for the responses.

 

Mark

 

 

Agreed.

Working through Colin (or other) flexibilities you'll get the idea.

Of course, he may be talking about the fun stuff of fingering passages while
holding the horn upside down and pushing the valves with the back of the
fingers instead of the pads....

And it is interesting brain-work to play passages backward, ie, from bottom
to top and right to left.

For those who don't have enough already to practice!

gc

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Daniel,John <john.daniel at lawrence.edu>
wrote:

I would be curious to know exactly what he was talking about as well.  Just
as an opening guess, I think he's talking about using 7th and 9th partial
fingerings much more than most trumpet players normally do.  The first time
I heard Faddis live he was playing a lot of high C's 1st valve, which is a
9th partial fingering.  I've been using more of these every since. High b
12, Bb 23 etc can get rid of some nasty lip slurs if we've been avoiding
practicing them lately:)
John




On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:56:50 -0400
 "Mark Deaton" <mdeaton at ix.netcom.com> wrote:



Anybody know what Freddie Hubbard is talking about at 1:05 when he
references Dizzy teaching him how to play "Backward" or "Auxiliary"
fingerings?  I'm unfamiliar with that.

Mark Deaton

Here's why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbmuWBMr84
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbmuWBMr84&feature=related>
&feature=related

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