This was some of your best work yet. Here You show off dynamic range and difficult yet subtle articulations in such a way that is expected of the professional musician while maintaining a warm and supported medium vibrato.
That means a lot, thank you! I always like it when the dynamics come through. Sometimes there's too much sound in trumpet playing and not enough dynamics, so I try to use them when I can.
@@thetrumpetman Brass instruments are some of the most challenging instruments to obtain good dynamic control because unlike the woodwinds that are responsive to very gentle air columns, the brass section, with the exception of the Horn in F, needs to put quite a bit more air pressure through the lips to buzz. single reeds like saxophones only take a very gentile flick on the reed to start the air column with very little air pressure and the clarinets take even less in their low register. It gets to be less of a difference in the higher registers because once single Reeds cross the break (whatever note is marked B in the middle of the staff, as the bass instruments in the woodwinds still read treble clef) that's usually when you start fighting the horn for the first few notes in the high register - especially if you're jumping across from an A to a D above the middle register A. As such, we don't need an army of Brass instruments to be effective if we do part writing well (e.g. integrate some barbershop harmony principles to cause notes to resonate where we want a more mellow and thicker sound from the brass section). This is why you will see a somewhat sizable flute, clarinet, and saxophone section, and an entire army in the bowed strings (where it takes more instruments to get a big sound) as opposed to the brass section, where realistically, the brass section would write for maybe 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 horns in F, and 1 baritone horn. (I wouldn't even consider adding a tuba or sousaphone to this because its a controlled mellow brass). The reason for the 4 horns in F is because of the fact that typically if we have 3 clarinets, eight flutes, and 2 each of the Sop, Alto, Tennor, and Barri saxophones, we then use the Horn in F as a harmonic device to take the shrillness out of the 1 Trumpets, the flutes and the Clarinets while also removing some of the darkness from the lower end of the trombones, the tubas, and the sousaphones - as to make them sound a little more like a baritone horn in section composite sound. So in short, you have done that which is very difficult to do for reasons of physics.
@@Harlem55 Wow, that is a very thorough response. Some of the stuff I knew, but some of the stuff I didn't. I've never thought deeply enough in regards to things like taking away the darkness of the Tubas and the shrillness of the trumpets.
@@thetrumpetman A good example would be Beethoven's 5th in C minor right where the horn in F comes in. The question becomes: that it is a fanfare that Beethoven is expressing here, why not use the trumpets as opposed to horn in F? Especially since at the time of Beethoven, the horn in F was still gaining its infamous reputation, with the 5th in C minor probably sealing the deal in terms of the convention in terms of influencing the first and second Viennese schools. Rather, most people incorrectly assume that Beethoven was Baraoque as opposed to being late Classical and Romantic.
m.th-cam.com/video/o32-uB9ik84/w-d-xo.html Maybe in the future I'll do a sheet music video for it, but here is the "Indiana Jones" theme I did on my channel last year
This was some of your best work yet. Here You show off dynamic range and difficult yet subtle articulations in such a way that is expected of the professional musician while maintaining a warm and supported medium vibrato.
That means a lot, thank you! I always like it when the dynamics come through. Sometimes there's too much sound in trumpet playing and not enough dynamics, so I try to use them when I can.
@@thetrumpetman Brass instruments are some of the most challenging instruments to obtain good dynamic control because unlike the woodwinds that are responsive to very gentle air columns, the brass section, with the exception of the Horn in F, needs to put quite a bit more air pressure through the lips to buzz. single reeds like saxophones only take a very gentile flick on the reed to start the air column with very little air pressure and the clarinets take even less in their low register. It gets to be less of a difference in the higher registers because once single Reeds cross the break (whatever note is marked B in the middle of the staff, as the bass instruments in the woodwinds still read treble clef) that's usually when you start fighting the horn for the first few notes in the high register - especially if you're jumping across from an A to a D above the middle register A. As such, we don't need an army of Brass instruments to be effective if we do part writing well (e.g. integrate some barbershop harmony principles to cause notes to resonate where we want a more mellow and thicker sound from the brass section).
This is why you will see a somewhat sizable flute, clarinet, and saxophone section, and an entire army in the bowed strings (where it takes more instruments to get a big sound) as opposed to the brass section, where realistically, the brass section would write for maybe 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 horns in F, and 1 baritone horn. (I wouldn't even consider adding a tuba or sousaphone to this because its a controlled mellow brass). The reason for the 4 horns in F is because of the fact that typically if we have 3 clarinets, eight flutes, and 2 each of the Sop, Alto, Tennor, and Barri saxophones, we then use the Horn in F as a harmonic device to take the shrillness out of the 1 Trumpets, the flutes and the Clarinets while also removing some of the darkness from the lower end of the trombones, the tubas, and the sousaphones - as to make them sound a little more like a baritone horn in section composite sound.
So in short, you have done that which is very difficult to do for reasons of physics.
@@Harlem55 Wow, that is a very thorough response. Some of the stuff I knew, but some of the stuff I didn't. I've never thought deeply enough in regards to things like taking away the darkness of the Tubas and the shrillness of the trumpets.
@@thetrumpetman A good example would be Beethoven's 5th in C minor right where the horn in F comes in. The question becomes: that it is a fanfare that Beethoven is expressing here, why not use the trumpets as opposed to horn in F? Especially since at the time of Beethoven, the horn in F was still gaining its infamous reputation, with the 5th in C minor probably sealing the deal in terms of the convention in terms of influencing the first and second Viennese schools. Rather, most people incorrectly assume that Beethoven was Baraoque as opposed to being late Classical and Romantic.
Beautiful! Now I feel like playing some Christmas music too😂
Play itttttt xD
Another good one. Takes me back when I used to play trumpet seeing the notes on the screen, good feeling.
Thank you! I'm glad it brought back good memories :)
THANKS YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO
You're welcome! Thanks for watching it :D
The sheet music says Bb major, but the audio is in Ab major
The sheet music is referring to the pitch of the trumpet itself. Concert Ab major is Bb major for trumpets.
I purchased this arrangement for a student to play for an upcoming concert.
Where can I buy this accompaniment track for the performance?
I found it here: th-cam.com/video/3L7uZhxY3r0/w-d-xo.html
Amazing!
Thank you!
hi, very cool version. Do you have an accompaniment or at least chords? Thank you
Thanks :) I don't have sheet music for any accompaniment, but you can find the backing track here on TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/3L7uZhxY3r0/w-d-xo.html
I have purchased the music to this arrangement.
Where can I buy the accompaniment track for an upcoming concert?
I found it here: th-cam.com/video/3L7uZhxY3r0/w-d-xo.html Sounds like a good concert!
Terrific job!
Thanks a lot!
Temazoooo 👏🎺
Is there anyway I could find the backing track you used?
I used this one: th-cam.com/video/3L7uZhxY3r0/w-d-xo.html
I got another suggestion: The Indiana Jones theme
m.th-cam.com/video/o32-uB9ik84/w-d-xo.html Maybe in the future I'll do a sheet music video for it, but here is the "Indiana Jones" theme I did on my channel last year
Sightreading this, i was all happy with myself until i get to the part where it modulates to B major lol
lol good effort tho