Kansas City Trill Timing Issues

[john]

that’s one of my go-to licks. It’s a series of trills that climbs up by semi-tones. would be kinda difficult to explain but I will be making a video of that which will be added to the “Embellishment” series.

what I can say is that you can work on it by just trilling each note once, very slowly. so bar 44 it starts with the base note D, then you’d trill F to F# back to F. then F# to G, back to F#. then G to G# back to G etc.
this is the slightly watered down way but gets you doing the movements. what I do just doubles or triples up on the amount of times I actually trill those notes.
also, to make it sound right we must scoop the first note

[Keith Taylor]

Thanks for the added insight, Johnny. I plan on recording it on Thursday, so, can’t wait for to the video you plan on doing on it. So, I’m just going to make it sound as good as I can, or figure out something else to do for those first measures on the second page.

Also, can you please clarify what you meant by, “to make it sound right we must scoop the first note?” This means I would need to scoop the F natural prior to doing the trill with the top G or ring finger key. Correct? I don’t think you mentioned doing that for that note in your lesson videos for the song – just the G, G#, and A that follows – which I’ve been doing already.

I’ll try and scoop the F, but I’m feeling rushed on the F and F# already due to the whole trill thing, and doing a scoop seems to add to the time needed for each note. For me it does at least. I’ll try it, though.

I may end up slowing down the tempo just a tad, which may make things a bit easier for me.

Thanks again for the added insight!

Keith

[john]

as for scooping, what I mean is to scoop the first note of each group…
I break the entire lick down into 5 notes (or groups).
the first one is the F, F#, F.
the second one is F#, G, F#
the third one is G, G#, G
the fourth one is G#, A G#
the fifth one is A

so, you scoop the F, perform the following trills, then scoop the F# which is the start of the second group, the scoop the G which is the 3rd group etc

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