Thanks all.
You've all done wonders for my ego.
As you may know, I've now been playing for a little over 2 years, but it's only in the past 2-3 months that I've begun to realise I am better than I had thought.
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I think because (as children) my younger sister was the musician, I was the numerate, studious (and probably boring) one and our older sister was the sporty one, I had never really thought of myself as having any musical talent.
Trust me, our younger sister is really a very good trumpeter, and is now a head of music at a secondary school in Wiltshire. She played Clarke's Trumpet voluntary for our wedding and sang Ave Maria. Guests who didn't know her asked if she was professional, to which I replied "no, she's just my sister" !
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Then recently, at band, I had a light bulb moment and realised I was leading more often than following.
This week, my teacher (who is also a conductor of the band) told be she was impressed with how I'd led the section on Sunday. TBH I hadn't set out to , but looking back, no-one else was "playing out" when we needed to, so I'd just taken the bull by the horns.
As far as this piece is concerned, I am looking to create a repertoire that I can just play if someone asked me to. My teacher gave me a load of book to look through, with backing tracks and I picked this one to start with.
I thought it was rather lively. Although I've driven my poor husband mad trying to get the timing right about 3/4 way though, there is a tied quaver-minim followed by a crotchet rest, followed by a minim, and for some reason I am still struggling to crack it, so I just keep repeating the 6 bars before and the 4 bars after. He complained about the ear-worm it's given him
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I have no idea about its history, but my teacher tells me it was used in the film "the Mask". Now since I really can't stand Jim Carey (the lead actor) I hadn't appreciated this. But I don't know when it was originally written. The sheet music I have has a copyright date of 1998 (I think)
Once again, thanks all.
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