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So I rejoined concert band last night (any band camp jokes will result in radish whippings 
) and the people were nice, I was praised for sight-reading BEAUTIFULLY and all those brilliant things.
Then I took a better look at the scores. MOST of them are designed for high-school/moderate level concert bands and are written in easy keys for each instrument (in theory). So for instance, a lot of scores are written in F major, Bb major, Eb major, G major or A major, but the latter is starting to push it slightly. (So 3 flats or sharps max) These are then transposed for Bb instruments (clarinet, tenor sax, bari sax(?), trumpet, trombone (?)), F instruments (French horn) Eb instruments (Alto sax, alto clarinet) as well as having bass parts (trombone and baritone sax if they prefer bass clef) and melody (flute, oboe, "floboe"* and I think English horn).
A good chunk of the scores I have consist of one or more of the following:
-Keys that are tricky to play on flute. (4 flats/sharps is pushing it, anything above that=
)
-Notes I can't hit. (this is notes on my level, not notes in the whole flute range. A flute's range is roughly C4-C7. I can hit G6. For a reference, basses are around F2-G3)
-Notes I CAN hit, but not in a semiquaver run. (THIS is an example of a semiquaver run at around the 30-second mark)
-"Flutters" (basically trilling your tongue. I can roll my tongue, but can't make noise with it
)
-Semiquaver runs with awkward fingering. (By this I mean that they go across the entire scale)
Ironically, the one score I had absolutely NO dramas with was Palladio (which is what I linked above) except for a bit at the ending.
If the band has any, I want to borrow their piccolo
Eta: a "floboe" is basically a flute that plays the oboe part in a piece of band music. Due to the fact that a number of scores only have 2 flute sections (if that), the oboe has a similar (albeit lower) range to the flute and some scores have an oboe part that needs to be filled in with SOMETHING, less experienced flautists will take the oboe score instead. In the case of this band, our "floboe" player actually does play oboe, she is learning flute.
) and the people were nice, I was praised for sight-reading BEAUTIFULLY and all those brilliant things.Then I took a better look at the scores. MOST of them are designed for high-school/moderate level concert bands and are written in easy keys for each instrument (in theory). So for instance, a lot of scores are written in F major, Bb major, Eb major, G major or A major, but the latter is starting to push it slightly. (So 3 flats or sharps max) These are then transposed for Bb instruments (clarinet, tenor sax, bari sax(?), trumpet, trombone (?)), F instruments (French horn) Eb instruments (Alto sax, alto clarinet) as well as having bass parts (trombone and baritone sax if they prefer bass clef) and melody (flute, oboe, "floboe"* and I think English horn).
A good chunk of the scores I have consist of one or more of the following:
-Keys that are tricky to play on flute. (4 flats/sharps is pushing it, anything above that=
)-Notes I can't hit. (this is notes on my level, not notes in the whole flute range. A flute's range is roughly C4-C7. I can hit G6. For a reference, basses are around F2-G3)
-Notes I CAN hit, but not in a semiquaver run. (THIS is an example of a semiquaver run at around the 30-second mark)
-"Flutters" (basically trilling your tongue. I can roll my tongue, but can't make noise with it
)-Semiquaver runs with awkward fingering. (By this I mean that they go across the entire scale)
Ironically, the one score I had absolutely NO dramas with was Palladio (which is what I linked above) except for a bit at the ending.
If the band has any, I want to borrow their piccolo
Eta: a "floboe" is basically a flute that plays the oboe part in a piece of band music. Due to the fact that a number of scores only have 2 flute sections (if that), the oboe has a similar (albeit lower) range to the flute and some scores have an oboe part that needs to be filled in with SOMETHING, less experienced flautists will take the oboe score instead. In the case of this band, our "floboe" player actually does play oboe, she is learning flute.
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