Author: Johnny Galaga
Date: 2019-09-21 02:27
I also notice that the harder keys are harder to get in tune. When you've got like 6 or 7 flats, you end up using more of the different side keys on the instrument and the intonation sounds off. In fact, I've always found it very hard to get exactly in tune with pop/rock songs if you try to play along. Why is that?
Like, guitars and bases, pianos, they have it easy with intonation. It's basically given to you for free. You just pluck the string or play the keyboard and you a nice full sound spot-on in tune with no effort. I wish we were like that. And the sound quality is nice and even from one note to the next. With our instrument, each note quality sounds a little different and it's hard to get a consistent sound on every note, especially in the harder keys. Like crossing the register break, for example. When you go from the throat tones to the clarion, the sound quality suddenly changes.
Some notes are more airy and quieter like middle-line Bb with the register key, and some notes are brighter and sound more solid like clarion F# (not the forked fingering). Rock-style instruments don't seem to have this problem. I find it aggravating trying to get matched up in-tune with pop songs.
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