For many years I was a ‘read it and play it’ type of ‘musician’ and certainly had next to no knowledge of music theory - my job was to follow the conductor, play my own part and to stick to just that, etc. Eventually a bit of music theory reached me and I began to get an improving concept of where individual players fitted into the collective ‘sound’ that we produce. One might say each section typically contributes certain things to a piece of music (say melody with the Cornets and rhythm with the Basses) but each section also, to a greater or lesser extent, plays chords too.
I think that it would be interesting to hear both about player’s experience of the ‘colouring’ that chords give to music and who they feel is part of chord production around them. For the Trombones it’s easy to see that they can produce the basic three part major and minor chords between them but who is added for the more complex ones? Similarly by splitting the Eb Bass line into two the Basses can produce three part chords, but I don’t recall seeing a split BBb part (beyond a simple octave split) for a more complex sound.
Comments please.
I think that it would be interesting to hear both about player’s experience of the ‘colouring’ that chords give to music and who they feel is part of chord production around them. For the Trombones it’s easy to see that they can produce the basic three part major and minor chords between them but who is added for the more complex ones? Similarly by splitting the Eb Bass line into two the Basses can produce three part chords, but I don’t recall seeing a split BBb part (beyond a simple octave split) for a more complex sound.
Comments please.