dumb musician mistake
so i have this church gig where i play a piece called the christmas oratorio for bass by bach. and i went to rehearsal not having practiced it as much as i should have. on the top of my music, the guy who hired me wrote that the piece was for trumpet in d. to my orchestral thinking, i figured that meant that i transpose up two steps from a b flat instrument. WRONG! i went to rehearsal in the wrong key and felt (and sounded) like shit. i was freaking out so much that i pulled the tuning slide out to ridiculous lengths so i could still use the same fingering which made my low register sound like a kazoo. not good. anyway, i check the score today to realize that not only was the trumpet part in d, EVERYONE WAS IN D!!! that means that i was transposing one step too much and that i am an idiot.
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