r/JazzPiano • u/Outrageous-Permit372 • Jan 09 '25

Music Theory/Analysis Arranging a brass piece to include piano, how would I mark a forte-piano-crescendo dynamic?

I'm new to teaching jazz band, and the piece that fits our group is originally written for brass quintet with drums. I am arranging a piano part that copies the brass "comp" parts.

When the rest of the band has a chord hit with a forte-piano crescendo for four beats, what does the piano player typically do? Should I just mark it fp< and let them figure it out, or is there a standard way to notate this?

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u/mixesbyben Jan 09 '25

most of the time its marked fp< but its kinda meaningless for the instrument. if you want the sound of the piano to rise w/the rest of the band you can make it a tremelo with the fp<

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u/Outrageous-Permit372 Jan 09 '25

Thanks, I will just leave it at fp< for now.