Re: [Harp-L] "A-Train"

[Chesper Nevins <chespernevins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Trombone definitely has some real limitations.

You have maybe 1 and a half octaves of range - if that - that can be
heard while other instruments are playing.  To have any more range
than that is a real physical feat.

Changes of notes have no articulation built in like changing from one
hole to the next on harmonica.  Everything has to be tongued (or
played against the grain of slide movement).  Try to picture a very
fast passage and what it would be like to tongue every note.

Sometime the distance between two notes can require a slide movement
of 2-3 feet!

So sometimes transposing a song to another key is essential.  But
trombonists have learned to hold their own along side other
instruments.

Harmonica content:

Does A Train work better in a different key? (Or in the original key
on a different key harmonica).

If not.... then the other choice is to play some other part of the
arrangement during those last 2 bars of the A section....

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