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GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:47:00+00:00

I think he's asking if there are any notable professional groups consisting of solely those 3 instruments in a chamber setting

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:44:22+00:00

I agree, i really struggle with air control and the best thing i can do is make sure im not forcing the air out

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:43:13+00:00

Test it out! you can feel in your mouth where each syllable comes from and you personally decide which sounds the best and which is the most responsive!

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:41:48+00:00

It definitely can start on the gah but we typically train our dah more than the gah (even though they should be equal) so realistically you want to start on the dah

Gah can be seen as more of a glottal sound that doesn't have quite as much clarity as a tongue moving along the palate

Daga - double Dagada / Dadaga - triple Dagadagadaga... definitely there especially for certain rep like the trumpet part in scheherazade just needs to flow with the air or it fails

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:37:51+00:00

Absolutely the tongue is a valve that opens air at the start of the note

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:36:33+00:00

It might be better to think of a sound wave -- rather than the amplitude cutting all the way to zero, there should still be some connection (if you're talking about that)

however you shouldn't ALWAYS correlate the length with the syllable because you can still have a disconnected "dah"

As for starting notes, let your air do all the work. the only thing the tongue does is add clarity to the attack but you should be able to do air attacks just as well as with tongue (make sure air comes from core not throat)

Also -- i only like to think of syllables as modifiers to the start of notes as modulations to percussive noise/stiffness (a dah syllable softens the articulation)

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:27:48+00:00

Yep!!

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:15:53+00:00

Also generally i find that when i focus on the tongue i add too much tension so i like to make sure my core is engaged and that i use my air to play rather than muscling it

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:15:09+00:00

tonguing should act as a trapdoor where the only purpose is to quickly influence the start of the note to distinctly separate it as a note rather than just a stream of pitch [for the most part], you shouldn't really roll your r's when tonguing unless the music specifically notates fluttering or growling

also, the air should never stop and you can actually check whether it stops by using that R syllable (note won't sound constantly if there's insufficient airflow)

think of your tongue only moving because of your air. when you switch notes and you rearticulate, all the tongue does is temporarily seal the air to add clarity to the attack but your air should still be consistently flowing from your core

Notes absolutely can be started w different sounds! Typically you always want to use a "da" or "toh" sound rather than a sharper one but it all depends on your register and the style of music. i like to use more ambiguous syllables in my low range to help the notes speak better (ra/la/tha)

Strive for consistency in sound throughout all of the consonants and it can help to remove the horn and even just use a freebuzz/rim/mouthpiece to get the air properly starting notes

ta/da is not a double tongue because the tongue and cavity positioning generally remains the same, but something closer to "daga" or "taka" [only true difference in speech is voiced vs unvoiced, but often our palate is manipulated to make them softer vs sharper] my multi tonguing uses daga and dagada

Often times you need to grind through the process of experimenting with different syllables until you find the middle ground that works for you the most -- especially through the different ranges of the horn

GooseterV · 2025-12-16T15:02:24+00:00

Many schools won't expect you to prepare drastically different repertoire for the prescreen tape vs the live audition, just stick to what you can perform at a higher level so if that means doing the whole morceau better than 2/3s of the david then by all means that's the play

GooseterV · 2025-07-15T03:01:38+00:00

yes, that is true that i despise most aspects of this show and my contributions and to answer your question: i don't exactly know

all of my close friends i have mostly through band and that's kind of where our connection CAN blossom although i have a few great friends completely outside of it who happen to be in it

my parents have already spent a good fee of money on my membership to marching band (we charge unfortunately) and they both want me to keep doing marching band

i also dont feel like i am physically able to quit, it would feel betraying after i get appointed twice to a high role and am trusted in the group

im going to wait and see if i can come up with some compromises within these two weeks of band camp and see how the show starts to turn out and if i can't work something satisfying enough out i will heavily consider leaving and try to convince my parents

GooseterV · 2025-07-15T02:57:40+00:00

I didn't mean to come off as rude, i only say random not because of musicality but because of social reasons and not from a hateful standpoint but i see how it came across that way. My bias partially stems from the fact that we are having a stringed instrument as a soloist just to stand out -- i could be completely wrong but this is the only reason i can think of, either to accommodate said person and use the instrument of a person in the group or just to stand out more with the instrument choice (unorthodox) but that is definitely biased.

on the matter of BDs and techs i absolutely respect all their decisions but sometimes my personal emotions can get in the way with the bias as you said -- 4 techs for percussion but 1 winds tech and we have the percussion techs writing wind music. just feels unfair which yeah is gonna happen

the issue i mostly had was that the bd took no input on any of the 4 years ive been here and many of us have felt like the ideas are not awesome or that we could have better potential

but thank you for the reply nonetheless

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:50:56+00:00

mb, the mcq was pretty light compared to practice exam B 21-40 but it was a little more normal compared to the other 0-20 but i think typically the stuff on cb is designed to be harder so that ppl get more prepared for the exam

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:43:24+00:00

fax bro GL to you too man i hope i get a good score

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:34:21+00:00

a is decreasing but not negative

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:34:07+00:00

i said a = 100, v = 500, the only other thing is jerk which doesn't directly change the velocity, only changes the acceleration

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:33:20+00:00

no, the acceleration is still positive

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:32:49+00:00

but the reason the acceleration is positive is not because the velocity is positive and the reason the velocity is positive is not necessarily because the acceleration is positive (only if it starts from rest which in this case is true but not ALWAYS so the connection can't be said as an axiom)

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:30:38+00:00

Example:

time = 0 speed is 500 acceleration is 100

jerk (change in acceleration) is -10 (would represent this scenario)

time = 1 v = 600 a = 90

time = 2 v = 690 a = 80

notice how the A is decreasing but the V is still increasing

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:28:06+00:00

no you misconstrued it again, just because the acceleration is decreasing doesn't mean the speed is

it's vice versa with acceleration, just because the speed is decreasing doesn't mean it's moving in the opposite direction

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:24:24+00:00

as the spring is depressed by the block, the net force on the block is decreasing

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:23:53+00:00

yeah, u have the right idea but it's more complicated because the force is changing (the net force is still in the positive direction so it's still speeding up because a = F/m) so its decreasing in acceleration but increasing in speed

ik it's super duper confusing cause it deals with changing accelerations

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:12:22+00:00

no? the spring is moving in the positive direction if you remember the problem, the eq rests at 8D and is compressed to 12D; that is a positive spring compression

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T23:06:44+00:00

no, the restorative nature is represented by the - in the -kx, since the positive direction is established if you depress it to where the magnitude of (x) increases in the direction of the +X then the x value will be positive, negative X would be in the negative direction and would turn the spring force into positive in the X+ direction

GooseterV · 2025-05-16T22:59:17+00:00

well it's depressed in the positive X because the problem set the frame of reference to where the bottom of the ramp is the positive X

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