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Brass Ensemble Trumpet - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1047876 Composed by Eddie Lewis. Classical,Instructional,Sacred. Score and parts. 8 pages. Tiger Music #652319. Published by Tiger Music (A0.1047876). The educational focus of Jesus, Lord and Savior is the cut-time time signature. We want our students to experience cut-time as a meter, not as a mathematical substitution for two-four time signature. We believe that students who perform such pieces, early in their development, grow to be more mature musicians. There is also the added benefit of breaking the students’ minds out of the four-four trap. Once they are liberated from the “one beat quarter-note”, their minds are free to explore the fractal relationships between rhythmic values. In our system, cut-time is the trumpet student’s introduction to this liberation. We teach them cut-time first, which leads to learning about eighth-notes in four-four. Once they are liberated this way, their minds are more open to learning how to play in six-eight. Thematic Context The title, “Jesus, Lord and Savior”, is blatantly Christian, as are many of my trumpet pieces. In fact, very few of my compositions over the past twenty years have been truly secular. Even those compositions with less obvious titles tend to have Christian themes behind them. Jesus, Lord and Savior is a simple acknowledgment that Jesus is more than the source of our salvation. As a Christian, I strive to live with Christ as Lord in my life. I don’t always get that part right, so this acknowledgement is a reminder to continue to try to live that way. Skill Level The skill level for Jesus, Lord and Savior easy trumpet quartet is the Trumpet Tyro skill level in our system. This is the second of two beginner skill levels. The top note in this trumpet quartet is fourth space E. Some student might struggle with the time signature if they are stuck in the “one beat quarter-note” world. I don’t think other people’s skill level systems introduce cut-time so early in the students’ developments. Maybe, for that reason, they might say that this is an intermediate level composition. Practice Recommendations First of all, it is our recommendation that the students learn about cut time with exercises and etudes first, before applying that knowledge to this composition. It is, however, only a recommendation. In our system, we never use performance works to learn a new skill. Performance materials should be mostly “old hat” to the students in the ensemble. That said, not everyone who purchases our compositions is using our system. Because this easy trumpet quartet is focused on giving your students an opportunity to perform in cut-time time signature, it is very important that they “feel” the measures in two, not in four. To facilitate this feel, we recommend that they are conducted in two and are instructed to tap their feet in two. A very easy way to communicate this feel is through traditional counting. For example, if the students count the pickups at the beginning as “Two And | One”, instead of “Three Four | One”, then they will more clearly recognize the difference between four-four and cut-time. There are also a number of staggered entrances in Jesus, Lord and Savior that might prove difficult to students who have never played music of that nature before. The way I like to work on those staggered entrances with my students is to rehearse them in pairs. Let each of the trumpet players recognize how their part fits with each of the other individual trumpet players. Another practice that really helps with staggered entrances a lot is simply listening to the recording. This is one of the reasons why we provide demonstration recordings for almost all of our compositions. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).