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VERROUST Etude #1 from 24 Etudes Mélodiques

VERROUST Etude #1 from 24 Etudes Mélodiques by S. Verroust But first I just wanted to take a moment and say I’m honored that so many of you have chosen to follow me here. It’s been over a year since the San Diego Symphony last saw the stage together as a whole ensemble. During this time away from live performance, I’ve dedicated myself to providing free reference videos of a variety of trumpet etudes that college students might encounter during the course of their studies. Some of these etudes were ones I studied and have continued playing years later, and some are brand new to me, but I felt were well written and were worthy of being recorded. Regardless of the etude, my goal has always been to provide a reference - for anyone studying these - of one professional’s take on how one might approach performing these in a live situation. As such, unless otherwise noted, all the etudes I’ve recorded are played top to bottom and without edits. I encourage anyone playing these etudes to not necessarily copy what I’ve done, but rather to put their own musical and sound profile stamp on their own versions of these etudes. My hope is that people understand that these etudes CAN be played with minimal errors and straight through without stopping and starting. Some things I’ve learned in this past year: 1. If we want to improve, we really should be recording ourselves much more often than we already do. I thought I was recording myself plenty as I was preparing for auditions in the last decade. Those recordings, of course, weren’t for public consumption - and I allowed myself too much leeway when it came to really getting into the details. When I decided to record and release videos for public consumption, my attention to detail skyrocketed and I feel that I’ve improved more in the last year than at virtually any other time since graduating college. The process can be icky and frustrating, but the improvements I’ve seen have been tremendous. 2. Buy the best equipment you can afford. Investing ~$750 total on a decent microphone with an interface along with cables and a mic stand should not be a a terrible financial burden assuming most of you have cell phones and laptops that cost thousands of dollars and will be replaced every couple of years... 3. Learn how to use the equipment you’ve invested in. Don’t be afraid or too proud to ask for help. It has been my experience - whether trumpet-related, recording-related, gym-related etc... - that most people with more knowledge than I have will gladly and freely offer their advice or tips on how to improve. I’m not talking about getting a trumpet lesson for free, but rather finding someone in your circle of friends who already is doing and bit of recording and asking them for help on how to get started. Or - after getting started - asking someone more knowledgeable how to get a better sound or how to EQ your sound, or how to figure out reverb. BTW - there is no ONE correct way to record yourself. I knew nothing about Logic Pro or Final Cut a year ago. It was through asking those around me for help and basically through a lot of experimentation that I found a reverb and EQ that I felt best represented my sound. 4. Recording by oneself is exponentially more difficult that playing with others. When we play with others, all of the information is given to us and we weave in and out of that musical fabric around us. The better the group, the easier to weave! I’ve even found auditions to be easier to play than to record some of these etudes. Even though we audition by ourselves and have to provide all of the information ourselves, at least we’re playing music that we and everyone on the panel should be intimately familiar with. We can imagine what is happening around us when we are performing excerpts and that informs us on exactly what and how to play any given excerpt. 5. Recording by oneself without edits is a bit like downhill skiing - Start at the top with the goal of getting to the bottom with style and some flair... and without crashing and creating a yard sale on the side of the slope. With some trial runs (practice), we can pick a path that best suits us and our abilities. Speed (tempo) and understanding how to negotiate the little traps along the way - moguls, trees and the occasional icy patch (difficult leaps, tricky fingerings, dynamic changes etc...) will be determined by how deep our knowledge of the ski slope (Etude) and abilities on our skis (trumpet). The good news is that in both skiing and trumpet playing - the more proficient we get, the more we can see both trouble ahead and know how to adjust our path in real time when we sense we may be in danger. Without fail, every single etude I’ve recorded I thought I should re-record in a different way. But, as I’ve found out the hard way - more times than not, I’ve had to react in the moment and adjust my path to get to the bottom. Such is the reality of live music and recording without edits.