Education
Selected Duets for Trumpet, Page 41 Number 7, Allegretto, performed by David Summer. This is another good duet for studying 6/8 played in 2. The student has to be able to hear continuous eigth notes in order to place all the eigths correctly. To help with this, the teacher might try playing the trumpet one part with all eigth notes for a line or 2 at the same time the student plays the part as written. This should help the student to understand how to subdivide 6/8 played "in 2". For this performance, the Poco meno (meaning "less motion" or to slow down) is ignored for the sake of students playing along with the trumpet 2 parts posted on the summersong.net website. The metronome setting for this performance is dotted quarter note = 92.