Hi everyone,

This is my first post, and I'm hoping to get some advice from any brass teachers (especially trumpet) on the forum. I am starting teaching in September with some students and so was listing all my concertos etc... to see what grade listing everything was, while I was going through I saw that the Laue Concerto is listed as grade 7. Now this seems to me to be ridiculous, it is for D trumpet or Picc and goes to E above top C on the D trumpet (equivilent to G# above top C on a Bb trumpet). Has anyone got any experience with this concerto for a grade 7 exam? I'm assuming that if the grade syllabus is correct then the piece would be taken down an octave?

Hope somebody can shed some light on this!

Cheers

Josh

Hi
I appreciate what you are saying, although I don't know the work myself, I do think there are many example accross all instruments in all lists. The grade 5 tuba has Waltz for Mippy III. Between the first two notes is over a two octave jump - and goes out of the range required certainly for the british tuba player. And yes I know that some pupils are better than others at certain things and yes there are different keys for tuba which make it slightly easier. But hey that is one I stay clear of!

Yeah I think I'll be staying clear of that one when people come to do grade 7! The only thing I can think is that its a mistake or it can be taken down the octave (very doable that way, its how I tried to see how difficult the thing was )

Cheers for the post, maybe the ABRSM list writers just get a bit over eager sometimes.

Josh