I like making them think notes are diffrent are the same. Bb is the same as A sharp lol. Then they think I'm crazy when I say to play a Bb instead of the A n vis versa.
Nice! That WOULD get annoying if you were just starting to play.
On a french horn, it's even better. You can play any given note by pressing about 5 different combinations of buttons (in higher register, you can press ANY valve or combination thereof and have the note come out right). So if someone's new to horn, you can have a lot of fun!
I don't generally have cause to play with beginner players, but every now and then we will let some school kids sit in with us in our concerts. Normally, I'm not too sadistic, but when you have a unison section, you can mess with their heads playing everything in alternate positions.
Works in HS too. I'm a junior in HS, one of the other trombonists in our band follows people. It's horrible. If I come in late shes right there with me. I start playing a Bflat in 5, she does it in 5, I go back to one and she does too. It's really fun in the upper register where you can play a note 3 ways, and the F attachment is unfair cause they can't see that. The best part is that when I play a D in 4, or any other alternate position, shes always on the wrong shelf, usually its one down. Really sad.
THe last band I was in, the other trombone tryed to copy everything I did, unfourtantly he didn't know all the notes and he was kinda tone deaf. So I kept playing my b's in 5th and 6th to throw him off.. lol
I'm the only one in my band with a trombone with an F trigger and I'll play a lot with the trigger and they'll all follow the positions I use and they mess up real bad sometimes. Really funny.
i actually just got back from a band clinic. I started to use all kinds of alternates, (the F's, G's, D's, Bb, etc...) since the song called for it. I'm pretty sure I messed a few people up. But I do remember when I started, the first person I took lessons with had a trigger and I would follow him, it was horrible...
I play my Bb in 5th my f in 6th and my d in 4th.
It is very funny to watch the idiots who refuse
to practice imitate me and when they mess up it
sounds like death it is really bad.
ok so i usually find it is better to help the noobs out, rather than to make them feel bad about there playing... but i have a horn that i can tune in unusuall ways, It can be tuned super sharp , almost a step, or can be pulled almost a whole step flat. I have been known to play with the tuning slide almose all the way in and then play everthing on the slide one position out in the morning and then in the afternoon pull it way out and play everything up one position. when you combine that with the alternates you have to play like B flat in 5 but pulled in to 4 because the tuning slide is way out well you drive inexperienced players nuts
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