Check out his short demontration of pedal tones in his video on trumpet range: Trumpeter Marco Blaauw has taught me a lot about pedal tones and he is certainly way better at them than I. Articulation on pedal tones is very limited.Pedal tones (and their desired pitches) can be unstable.Pitch accuracy is very difficult, as the notes don’t “click-in” as with notes in the normal range, meaning the player must rely on their ears alone.Pedal tones require lots of air, which drastically limits note length.A quick adjustment of the embouchure is usually required to prepare for playing in the pedal register, or moving back from pedal to normal registers.Most professional players of contemporary music are able to play pedal tones, though not everyone can reach into the extreme pedal register.Pedals are slippery, but allow for some easy glisandi. The normal low register as well as the pedal register are quite flexible and can be used for (relatively) smooth, low glissandi. With practice, a player can produce accurate and resonant pedal tones, though they will always sound different to normal pitches. They are less centered and are usually somewhat unstable. Again, some players may be able to go lower (and sound better!) in the extreme pedal range.Īs you can hear in the above example, pedal tones sound much different than notes in the trumpet‘s normal range. Chromatic descending scale starting with middle c in the low range.
Some players are able to go even lower than the extreme pedals I show here. This is, of course, my subjective opinion.
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