 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Indigo
Date: 2000-11-13 22:27
Okay, I've been playing flute for five years and haven't EVER ever ever come across anything like this... I am playing Sleigh Ride in band--(we're jazz-haha marchers!!:])--but anyway we have this trill that our instructor says we must do, yet I haven't the foggiest how to do it. The Sleigh Ride song and part, if you want to look it up for whatever reason is SLEIGH RIDE, by LEROY ANDERSON, 1st flute part. Well, on the paper, I see the high "f"(perched on the 3 leisure lines above the staff) and a tr~ right above it. nothing else. Well, I think that I had that one figured out. But then, There are these F's (top line) that are slurred with a G(top line) with the little tr~ thing above it.(the f is accented and the G is staccato). Then there is the high B-FLAT slurred with a G(top line) in the same style. [I certainly hope that I am being descriptive enough].Then there is an A slurred with an F in the same style. Then I do it again, but with an A-FLAT tr~ slurred with the top line F. the I do it all AGAIN!! Then I get a slurred E-FLAT to D tr~~, then I get to do THAT again! See what I said about impossible?!?!?The clarinets have figured out most of thiers, and it sounds pretty cool. So, us BIG MIGHTY FLUTES HAVE TO PROVE THAT WE CAN DO IT TOO!!!
Well, I hope that I didn't trouble you too much---
Love,
THE FLUTE FANATIC,
Indigo
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Author: Nick C.
Date: 2000-12-19 01:14
Well, whaddaya know and Bob's my uncle. We're playing the same arrangement in my band. I've looked at the flute part, and you're right, those trills look mighty hard.
However, I'm not a flute player (just a clarinetist/trombonist/hornist/tubist/saxophonist ^_^), so I wouldn't know how to do the trills. Perhaps I could relay some instructions to you from my director or the first-chair flutist (flautist? fluter?)
-- Nick
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Author: Alok
Date: 2000-12-26 17:24
Try trilling the thumb key, and if u didn't notice, this message board is on a site that provides alot of fingering charts,including trills. Good luck
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Author: Miguel
Date: 2001-01-31 03:52
Well, first, the trill from high F to G is that you finger the F then lift your thumb fast to get the G. I don't know about the High Ab trill to the high F cuz I have never heard of a trill that's a whole note and a halve apart. (like trilling from B to Eb; doesn't make sense!)And the slurs aren't THAT horrible. just make your mouth smaller and try to keep your air in a contant air stream; as in don't chunk out a note! If you need any more shtuff, e-mail me cuz I know just about everything there is to know about all the woodwind instruments. (Hint: I play them all!) (except basson & oboe!)
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Author: flutey tutey
Date: 2005-12-01 21:55
im playing sleigh ride too but i have 2nd part ...its a cool song but i have trubles with the trills too
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