Piccolo Trumpet, or Bass Clarinet?

Why not both?

Choose a primary and rent the other.

Then you can have skills on both.

I started in a piano keyboarding class, which led to being a drummer in marching band, which led to wanting to play trumpet and later french horn.

So, by my high school senior year, I was able to play drums, trumpet and french horn alternately depending on song or type of band.

Later, I played in 4 bands in college on trumpet and in a local concert band on french horn and trumpet after graduating from college, then later in another concert band on trumpet.

In working with middle schoolers in music, I later had to learn the embouchure and slide positions on trombone to display proper notes and the note fingerings on clarinet to assist woodwinds.

However, since 2006, I have not played. I sold my instruments when I ran into financial problems.

But, my point is that there is no age limit and there is no instrument limit. Since you are showing an interest in both, try both. Bass clarinet is different, but having tried out for drum corps in the past, I can tell you that soprano trumpets, or, the smaller version (the piccolo trumpet) has a unique and valuable sound.

Find a way to do both.

Good point Smith. Wait, aren't you the Stoppit Smith that tried to justify being marginally overweight on this collection of cardio-obsessed anorexics called LetsRun?? Your points are still valid in this topic, but I just wanted to know if you're the same Smith.

Star wrote:

And you can effortlessly hit high notes that you can't on the trumpet.

Your upper register is more secure, but you can't play higher on the piccolo than on the big horn.

Go for the bass clarinet, much easier to get decent sounding notes out of it.

Speculator Sam wrote:

I'm considering taking up a new instrument. What I know is that the picc trumpet is the reason why "Penny Lane" is famous, while the Bass clarinet is like a warbly baritone ranged instrument that looks like an ugly duckling of a saxophone. I particularly like the sound of the bass clarinet though, but a picc trumpet is cheaper and equally as annoying to my neighbors. What's y'all's take on this? Thanks for reading.

Get a piccolo trumpet and please please please put up a video of you playing it. I'm sure you'll be really good at it so we all want to hear.

Don't forget the triangle I must say...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/dc/e6/f4/dce6f454f87efea3a9ca0460c371553b--funny-men-funny-people.jpg

Yep. That would be me as well.I am diverse.Thanks

Speculator Sam wrote:

Good point Smith. Wait, aren't you the Stoppit Smith that tried to justify being marginally overweight on this collection of cardio-obsessed anorexics called LetsRun?? Your points are still valid in this topic, but I just wanted to know if you're the same Smith.

Thanks for the advice. So, I'm going to find a good $500ish bass clarinet to start. F the trumpet, I think if I actually stick with it though, I'll choose a nice entry level Bb clarinet as well that way I could play higher notes.

Trumpet can be a noble instrument, but I understand when choosing an instrument, it's not about what sounds cool it's about finding the one that is "an extension of your artistic expression",. I love the sound of a kick ads bass groove in a rock song, but I'm not soo inclined to buy an electric bass. I love Bach's cello suite 1 prelude, but I'm not buying a viola or cello because I don't feel those instruments don't appeal to me even though I okay guitar and would find those quite easy to transfer to.

Playing the prelude on bass clarinet would be fun anyways. Those low notes ought to shake the ground and that's empowering for a pasty scrawny distance guy like me :D... Wait I weigh 165 I'm "fat" according to these forums. Seriously clarinet I'm ma try that and maybe find love for a brass instrument later on in life.

Besides... you couldn't stick into a piccolo trumpet if I get desperate. I did give up on getting laid, after all...

You sound like a harmonica kind of guy. Electric bass is the most underrated instrument ever.

Bennie Maupin on the Miles Davis album "Bitches Brew" is the guy who first got me interested in the bass clarinet, not as a lead instrument but as a very valuable part of the mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSAGSO1AI0

I have three harmonicas, you got me there. A crappy Walmart c harp, and Hohner blues harp in A missing a third hole reed (upsetting) and Lee Oskar Dmajor harp.

kimani wrote:

What instrument(s) do you currently play? I guess whether you prefer playing fast or slow could come into play, but you can play whatever instrument however you want:

https://twitter.com/CALMDOWNLAD/status/810430487953076224

Seen this guy play (Union Square) more than once. He's about as good an argument as any for a law making white guys' "getting down" a criminal offense.

Damn that was dope.

kibitzer wrote:

kimani wrote:

What instrument(s) do you currently play? I guess whether you prefer playing fast or slow could come into play, but you can play whatever instrument however you want:

https://twitter.com/CALMDOWNLAD/status/810430487953076224

Seen this guy play (Union Square) more than once. He's about as good an argument as any for a law making white guys' "getting down" a criminal offense.

I change my mind. Baritone Sax it is... JK only Union Square guy can pull that off. Serioualy, unless he's a rapists or something he should go to heaven and present that to the holy village. He made a sax sound like an electronically drum and bass loop. It's amazing!

wearing sweatpants too? wrote:

Spitterer wrote:

Well, your mom, sisters, wife and daughters were ready and willing, but they're all so sleazy that they look like the spit valve on an overused, uncleaned French horn. Quite like you.

So that's a yes for you and the OP. noted.

Umm, you take notes on this kind of stuff? I doubt it. And perhaps you've failed to note that there are lots of problems with a casual attitude about "getting laid." Good luck with marriage.

Hey Sam,

Why limit yourself to one instrument? Check out Rahsaan Roland (he was "Ronald") Kirk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbzhw0Sz-js

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahsaan_Roland_Kirk

Challenge accepted! A melody popped into my head while watching a movie. Despite the sprained ankle, I broke Bolt's 100m record and loaded up my score writing software and set this up! My ankle's blown-out now but I've a work of art here. Thanks for the discussion LetsRun! http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/760742?updated=1502912512

Take up the accordion. It's much more annoying than either the piccolo trumpet or bass clarinet.

For a shortcut to being annoying, kazoos are cheap, very annoying, and require no musical ability or training.