As a percussionist turned composition student, I don't know where the world of music would be without the Trombone. Such an amazingly versatile instrument. Want soft, mellow melodies? Trombone. How about epic, blaring bass lines? Trombone. Some of the stankiest funk you've ever heard? Trombone. Hands down tied with French Horn as my favorite instrument to use in my compositions.
@@alexanderhoak i have played john william medleys with my music school's orchestra, but tbh french horn is really hard to play so french horn players from my music school kinda suck
A good overview. It's difficult to capture it all in 15 minutes. It could also mention a little about brands--for example how Bach & Conn become dominant in the post-war period, & then more recently, other brands like Shires, Yamaha, etc. begin to challenge that dominance. Then there's the wide variety of mutes that are developed & used, plus the fact that lacquers come in rose, yellow, & gold colours...etc. etc. etc...George, Canada (full disclosure: I play a Bach 42b).
As a somewhat experienced trombone player, I had no idea the trombone was still being used before Beethoven, I have a whole new area of music to explore
I’m not a trombone player. I’ve never even picked up a trombone before. But as a musician, I am such a huge fan of this instrument. Thank you for this video.
I used to play trumpet in school, then I developed a major disdain for trombone when the whole trombone section thought it was great fun one year to constantly hit the trumpets with their slides for a year, so I quit. Now I play violin and if any trombone player wants to come at me with their slide, just know that the tip of my bow is very sharp and stabby. As a side note though, thank you for making me realize that I also like baroque trombone music. Very nice compliment to the violin and klavier.
Great video.The clips showing early music feature “sackbuts” which were the forerunner of the modern trombone.IThe instrument is distinguishable by it’s smaller bell.
As a violin/cello player/instructor. I like the brass. blowing a trumpet for about a year (I use a pocket trumpet while sitting in traffic practicing scales up and down). then blowing a trombone for the first time in about a decade I couldn't sustain any notes too long. Bigger, longer tubes sure needed more air to fill. Makes me give props to tuba players.
First I want to say THIS IS AMAZING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Trombone was my first instrument in band. At 12 years old I had no clue of the power this instrument holds. I’d not discover that until my first up close experience ( standing behind the trombones with the symphony chorus) with a professional orchestra. They came in and I thought the roof was going to fly off the woodruff arts center! I just stood there with an evil smile on my face thinking , “Yeah, that’s what they came here for that’s the ticket!” And now I play the harp.
Valve trombones were quite popular in the 19th century, especially in Italy and Eastern Europe, and bands in America often had valved trombones instead.
It wasn't Friedrich August Belcke----- Carl Traugott Queisser was the first to perform the David Konzert as it was commissioned for him. The premiere took place in the Gewandhaus Hall in Leipzig with Mendelssohn conducting.
I've got 21 years on the tenor trombone, almost 16 years as a bass trombonist. Started with an Olds Ambassador, then went to a King Cleveland 605 Small Bore Tenor. Then my bass trombone I named champion arrived two days before my first concert in my freshman year of high school, and I made the switch to the bass trombone as my as my primary instrument. Fast forward almost 16 years later, I've added two additional trombones with three additional trombones coming. A second bass trombone is a second Large Bore tenor trombone and a Contrabass Trombone lol in the works.
I love it when I put on a video to learn shit and end up laughing my ass off. I love how the memes were kinda slowly inserted and then dominated the space XD
Alto trombone is the most under appreciated and under used horn in jazz, soul, R & B, and other modern music. I switched to only alto and I’m never going back!
As a clarinetist and marching bottom bass player with minimal brass experience, this was a cool video. It wasn't until recently that I got to hear a meaty low winds section in a big regional band I auditioned for and my gosh it was the most epic thing I've ever heard. The CONTRABASS clarinet, a contra bassoon, like 10 French horns (I've seen 3 at max anywhere else) and just a super awesome bones and tuba section. We played movement 1 of The Hobbit: Gandalf and it was HEAVENLY
My random trombone story: When I was a high-schooler, I played with the Texas Trombones. The organizer was a music professor at Rice University in Houston (sorry, I don't remember his name). We played at a Mardi Gras parade in Nice, France. The French were disappointed in our jeans and sweatshirt uniform, so they actually sewed some white fringe up and down the legs.
Loved the video, but a SHORT NOTE: It’s not Péter Pálinkás who plays the Bourgeois at 00:20. It’s András Sütő. Pálinkás uploaded the original video, they are both trombonists at the orchestra.
I had a band director who was a bop pianist and trombonist. But he had an old rotary valve beat up euphonium that he loved to run be-bop lines on! Man he made that piece of shit swing. But honestly I came to understand how very difficult it was to get around on a trombone. He loved that euphonium because 🤷 valves he'd never admit it because he loved trombone. But by bop smearing around had no value. Anyway in contemporary jazz trombonists need to sound like they're playing a valved instruments. Which is inherently hard to do. Single double triple tounging practiced till the cows come home for life plus very accurate subtle coordination of ambrosure and slide manipulations so that all those chromatically altered harmonies may flow improvisationally outchore bell. Robin Eubanks , Bill Watrous, etc etc etc.
Christopher Bill may be the guy that may have made multitracking more popular but, he's not the first one to to it. Other brass brass players I've seen online do this. TubaPeter have been making recordings of low brass instruments since the early 2000s and put them on TH-cam. Another TH-camr that goes by Sud28 invented his own version of the sonic boom fanfare back in 2008 called "Souba Trombone using a headset to record the audio." He even has a Remix of the famous low brass sonic boom/snake pit fanfare I used to listen to his instrumentals on repeat to hear just how great he sounds on his trombone.
I was enjoying this until near the end and the "F" bomb gets dropped in there a couple times. COME ON MAN! I was going to show this to my trombone student. Not any more. Clean it up!
thats m'boy! i started playing trombone in 5th grade and i wouldnt swap instruments for a trillion bucks, you get to slip and slide around, do the "wa wa wa waaaaa", and you carry the band when it comes to volume
Kirara senpai: hmm... I wonder if that trombone is in that music shop? Maybe in the jazzy musical - neon box Wait a second... I's tahat a slider?! Yaaas it is in the jazz box! Strombonin from msm (my singing monsters): hey! What are you doing in that music shop?! Enough... That's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine! Kirara senpai: i'm sorry (ishyy farah) i did'nt mean to, i was just looking... Strombonin: oh... why am i worrying? Fumi itachi: heh.
Not to brag, maybe yes I'm bragging, but Giovanni Gabrieli was my ancestor, we still live near Venice, my grandfather's grandfather was the last one to bare the Gabrieli surname, and was still a musician, a violinist, he still had Giovanni's music sheets (I don't know if autographs or early prints) then during WW2 everything was stolen by the retreating Germans alongside his piano and violin; don't know how they ended up if burnt to light a fire or kept/sold for profit
I seem to have forgotten Davis Shuman's invention, the "angled" trombone.....for those with short arms. I suppose he didn't want to bother with a trigger.
I was wondering what the intro song of this is, if you could tell me that would be awesome! I love the trombone even though i'm an alto saxaphone player, i wishy to be able to play the trombone some day.
I love playing Trombone!!! And I currently have three of them including a Soprano, Alto, and Bass Trombone. Next I want to buy a Contrabass Trombone in F but I need $10,000 for that so I have to save my money for a while lol.
@@TheTromboneChannel yeah I was told by a professional player to avoid the Chinese horns because they are crap and he said that I wouldn’t be happy with it. So I’m probably going to get a Jurgen Voigt F Contrabass Trombone because it seems like a really nice horn and it’s handmade in Germany.
@@ArsenalTheProtogen as an unbiased composer, what you just said can be said about every instrument. Trombone isn't any more versatile than any other brass instrument in my experience. In fact, it's a lot more limiting in textures and range than most other instruments. Sure, you can play really high and really low, but the embers of those extreme ranges don't have much use outside of solos.
i love trombone
i also love trombone
What a coincidence, me too!
Wait, me too!
Me 4
Wow, me too!
As a percussionist turned composition student, I don't know where the world of music would be without the Trombone. Such an amazingly versatile instrument. Want soft, mellow melodies? Trombone. How about epic, blaring bass lines? Trombone. Some of the stankiest funk you've ever heard? Trombone. Hands down tied with French Horn as my favorite instrument to use in my compositions.
bruh i don't understand why so many people like the french horn, like appart from backgrounds in classical it doesn't sound great imo
@@IsmaelCordier Someone's never listened to a John Williams soundtrack.
@@alexanderhoak i have played john william medleys with my music school's orchestra, but tbh french horn is really hard to play so french horn players from my music school kinda suck
Playing since 4th grade. At 65 I love playing the 3rd and bass part with a tenor horn + F attachment. I like being the barking guy under the band.
Nice to see video of authentic instruments. A very comprehensive overview of 600 years of history compressed into 15 minutes. Bravo!
Thank you!
A good overview. It's difficult to capture it all in 15 minutes. It could also mention a little about brands--for example how Bach & Conn become dominant in the post-war period, & then more recently, other brands like Shires, Yamaha, etc. begin to challenge that dominance. Then there's the wide variety of mutes that are developed & used, plus the fact that lacquers come in rose, yellow, & gold colours...etc. etc. etc...George, Canada (full disclosure: I play a Bach 42b).
I might ruin the perfect 100 likes. It depends on how I feel.
The New York trombone ensemble really got me. I have been playing for 3 years, and this, this got me going hard
As a somewhat experienced trombone player, I had no idea the trombone was still being used before Beethoven, I have a whole new area of music to explore
Those early trombones were actually “Sackbuts” and are distinguishable but the smaller bell.
I absolutely love that you added modern history
Watched this entire video, I’m an alto saxophone but you scooped me into the world of the trombone. Amazing video
I'm a bassist (both guitar and upright) as well as a baritone vocalist, and this shit is fascinating.
I'm also an alto saxophone. I am about to be sold to some Nigerian, help
Trombone:
The definitive musical instrument
Yes.
Facts my brother. Spit your truths.
Or spit your valves I should say
@@ShiftedStriker trombones dont have valves😂
@@HIHELLO72915 they have a spit valve
@@ShiftedStriker oh yeah. I'm a trombonist so i should have got that💀
love how your intro animation includes a phrase from the iconic Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto
You posted this just in time for researching my project on the trombone. Thanks!
Absolutely!
My project is due tomorrow and I only started today
I've been playing trombone for 51 years, and love this video.
May I keep in touch with you Mr. Ashley? I need your help so I can play better.
Do you have any advice? I’ve been playing for 11 years but it’s always good to have advice
@@MarigoldHakaro Always blow the water out before you put it back in its case.....
@@ScratchySlide thank you I have trouble remembering that. In fact I’ll use this a a reminder to put a sticky note on my hand to do it
@@MarigoldHakaro You're very welcome. Enjoy blowing!!
I’m not a trombone player. I’ve never even picked up a trombone before. But as a musician, I am such a huge fan of this instrument. Thank you for this video.
I used to play trumpet in school, then I developed a major disdain for trombone when the whole trombone section thought it was great fun one year to constantly hit the trumpets with their slides for a year, so I quit. Now I play violin and if any trombone player wants to come at me with their slide, just know that the tip of my bow is very sharp and stabby. As a side note though, thank you for making me realize that I also like baroque trombone music. Very nice compliment to the violin and klavier.
Great video.The clips showing early music feature “sackbuts” which were the forerunner of the modern trombone.IThe instrument is distinguishable by it’s smaller bell.
Thanks for this. I took a class for my Trombone Literature last year but this is a good refresher!
Glad I could help!
As a violin/cello player/instructor.
I like the brass. blowing a trumpet for about a year (I use a pocket trumpet while sitting in traffic practicing scales up and down). then blowing a trombone for the first time in about a decade I couldn't sustain any notes too long. Bigger, longer tubes sure needed more air to fill. Makes me give props to tuba players.
yes, us tuba players do use a lot of air for sure!!
Bruhh the "You could make a religion out of this" line kills every time
Lol glad you like it!
First I want to say THIS IS AMAZING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Trombone was my first instrument in band. At 12 years old I had no clue of the power this instrument holds. I’d not discover that until my first up close experience ( standing behind the trombones with the symphony chorus) with a professional orchestra. They came in and I thought the roof was going to fly off the woodruff arts center! I just stood there with an evil smile on my face thinking , “Yeah, that’s what they came here for that’s the ticket!” And now I play the harp.
The Trombone is one of the instruments of all time
Who knew😂😂😂😂
As a trumpet player, I got to say trombone was my first brass instrument back in my Middle school years, but then I felled in love with the trumpet.
Megasus
Love to see a history of some of the major trombone manufacturers of the past and of current day! (Rath, Shires, Edward's, etc)!
I've been practicing trombone for about a decade now, and I've just discovered your channel. Just subscribed ;-)
Thanks!
Valve trombones were quite popular in the 19th century, especially in Italy and Eastern Europe, and bands in America often had valved trombones instead.
That is true
If there is no slide, can it really be called a trombone?
Hear me out. Trombones are the base instrument .
⬇️
Trumpet=Small, squeaky, twisted trombone
French horn = Twirly, majestic trombone
Euphonium/Baritone= Chubby ,twisted trombone
Tuba= OBESE Trombone
Drums=Boom trombone
Cymbals = Clank trombone
Piano = 88-valve trombone
You are completely right, almost all of those instruments have tuning slides which are just tiny pathetic slides to try to be more like the trombone
I started trombone about a yr ago and it’s brilliant. I was already good at cello and piano so i had a fast progression
The trombone lead toward the end of ‘Gift With Purchase’ is so beautiful! TH-cam it!!
That's called foreshadowing making me laugh each time bravo
Lol I didn't know it would be funny!
It wasn't Friedrich August Belcke----- Carl Traugott Queisser was the first to perform the David Konzert as it was commissioned for him. The premiere took place in the Gewandhaus Hall in Leipzig with Mendelssohn conducting.
I've got 21 years on the tenor trombone, almost 16 years as a bass trombonist. Started with an Olds Ambassador, then went to a King Cleveland 605 Small Bore Tenor. Then my bass trombone I named champion arrived two days before my first concert in my freshman year of high school, and I made the switch to the bass trombone as my as my primary instrument. Fast forward almost 16 years later, I've added two additional trombones with three additional trombones coming. A second bass trombone is a second Large Bore tenor trombone and a Contrabass Trombone lol in the works.
very well done video, i'm a tenor sax player myself, but this was a great video
Really like the video and how are you quickly take us through everything I had no idea the trombone had such an interesting history
Thank you Spencer! Hope you and your brothers are doing well!
@@TheTromboneChannel Thank you Jack we are doing very well
as a soprano trombone player, I am deeply offended that he didn't even mention it.
Dude I’ve played trombone for a long time, and I had no idea that ever existed- LIKE IVE PLAYED TENOR, BASS, AND CONTRABASS
...something about the makings of a varsity athlete
9:42 "Bass trombonists didn't have much to work with so they just stole the tuba solo." Yep, that was me in the 1970s
HAHAHAHA
I play bass trombone, euphonium, (and soprano trombone sometimes) so needless to say I really liked this video
I love it when I put on a video to learn shit and end up laughing my ass off. I love how the memes were kinda slowly inserted and then dominated the space XD
Alto trombone is the most under appreciated and under used horn in jazz, soul, R & B, and other modern music. I switched to only alto and I’m never going back!
As a trombone player, this video was amazing!!!!!
6:30 if Mark Zuckerberg had red hair
From 0:22-0:34 the player is András Sütő, not Péter Pálinkás. They both play in the Corpus Trombone Quartet by the way.
As a clarinetist and marching bottom bass player with minimal brass experience, this was a cool video.
It wasn't until recently that I got to hear a meaty low winds section in a big regional band I auditioned for and my gosh it was the most epic thing I've ever heard. The CONTRABASS clarinet, a contra bassoon, like 10 French horns (I've seen 3 at max anywhere else) and just a super awesome bones and tuba section. We played movement 1 of The Hobbit: Gandalf and it was HEAVENLY
My random trombone story: When I was a high-schooler, I played with the Texas Trombones. The organizer was a music professor at Rice University in Houston (sorry, I don't remember his name). We played at a Mardi Gras parade in Nice, France. The French were disappointed in our jeans and sweatshirt uniform, so they actually sewed some white fringe up and down the legs.
Loved the video, but a SHORT NOTE: It’s not Péter Pálinkás who plays the Bourgeois at 00:20. It’s András Sütő. Pálinkás uploaded the original video, they are both trombonists at the orchestra.
I had a band director who was a bop pianist and trombonist. But he had an old rotary valve beat up euphonium that he loved to run be-bop lines on! Man he made that piece of shit swing. But honestly I came to understand how very difficult it was to get around on a trombone. He loved that euphonium because 🤷 valves he'd never admit it because he loved trombone. But by bop smearing around had no value. Anyway in contemporary jazz trombonists need to sound like they're playing a valved instruments. Which is inherently hard to do. Single double triple tounging practiced till the cows come home for life plus very accurate subtle coordination of ambrosure and slide manipulations so that all those chromatically altered harmonies may flow improvisationally outchore bell. Robin Eubanks , Bill Watrous, etc etc etc.
Check out Peter Steiner's recording of Todd Goodman's Trombone Concerto (it's on TH-cam). Both the concerto and the recording are amazing!
damn, didn’t know they had such good cameras back in 1856 5:20
Disney: *girl trombonist*
This guy: *explaining the whole trombone lore*
Christopher Bill may be the guy that may have made multitracking more popular but, he's not the first one to to it. Other brass brass players I've seen online do this. TubaPeter have been making recordings of low brass instruments since the early 2000s and put them on TH-cam. Another TH-camr that goes by Sud28 invented his own version of the sonic boom fanfare back in 2008 called "Souba Trombone using a headset to record the audio." He even has a Remix of the famous low brass sonic boom/snake pit fanfare I used to listen to his instrumentals on repeat to hear just how great he sounds on his trombone.
that’s called foreshadowing
Trombone is the best instrument throughout history tbh
I love this silly little doot doot machine
13:08 it IS the most epic shit in the entire fckign planet!!
Underated channel
This is freaking fantastic!!!
0:18, crazy how a trombone can sound so much like a euphonium 😉
Yeah I'm prolly gonna hire a friend of mine to actually play it for real.
As a double bass player , trombone is my second favorite brass instrument after tuba
Yet this video couldn’t get you to put trombone first.
You’ve just deserved my sub
I was enjoying this until near the end and the "F" bomb gets dropped in there a couple times. COME ON MAN! I was going to show this to my trombone student. Not any more. Clean it up!
Wow this was so well done.
Man do I love the trombone
Very fun video!
Thank You!
This is the Best Video about trombones I've ever seen. So Nice. 👍👍👍
thats m'boy! i started playing trombone in 5th grade and i wouldnt swap instruments for a trillion bucks, you get to slip and slide around, do the "wa wa wa waaaaa", and you carry the band when it comes to volume
Kirara senpai: hmm... I wonder if that trombone is in that music shop?
Maybe in the jazzy musical - neon box
Wait a second... I's tahat a slider?!
Yaaas it is in the jazz box!
Strombonin from msm (my singing monsters): hey! What are you doing in that music shop?! Enough... That's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!
Kirara senpai: i'm sorry (ishyy farah) i did'nt mean to, i was just looking...
Strombonin: oh... why am i worrying?
Fumi itachi: heh.
Thanks for the information🎶
0:14 迫真の組み立て
Very nice job!
you should mention Urbie Green and his 21 trombones album....in addition to, well, just his amazing talent.
This was beautiful.
As a trombone, that's a trombone with a slide
Dude maslaka is like the best modern composer. Maybe ticheli but maslaka is great. Listen to give us this day
I know - trust me - I played that song in hs
@@TheTromboneChannel same
This video kept my attention for 15 minutes. Wow.
Glad you liked it!
Mans summed it up pretty much.
In the name of every other instrument, stop being so loud.
-an attacked sax
I put this in a presentation for school I almost got in trouble at the end
Not to brag, maybe yes I'm bragging, but Giovanni Gabrieli was my ancestor, we still live near Venice, my grandfather's grandfather was the last one to bare the Gabrieli surname, and was still a musician, a violinist, he still had Giovanni's music sheets (I don't know if autographs or early prints) then during WW2 everything was stolen by the retreating Germans alongside his piano and violin; don't know how they ended up if burnt to light a fire or kept/sold for profit
"surely no one will change this.."
me: oh no not again
"THATS CALLED FORESHADOWING"
Shoutout to Aidan Ritchie at 6:05 😄
From John Philip Sousa to Trombone Champ. The history of trombone.
Got a tromboner
Nice
What a curious trumpet
Trombone is arguably the best instrument no bias frfr
If I got better at trombone every time he said “that’s called foreshadowing” I’ll be the greatest trombone player ever 😂😂
You forgot to include the Pbone
I’ve seen the entire trombone family, it’s cool
I regularly watch videos on TH-cam of a terrific female trombone player (and player of just about everything else) Gunhild Carling.
I seem to have forgotten Davis Shuman's invention, the "angled" trombone.....for those with short arms. I suppose he didn't want to bother with a trigger.
Where can I find the song that starts at 11:34? you only get to hear a few seconds of it and I really want to hear the whole thing! thanks in advance!
Dover - the westerlies
@@TheTromboneChannel thank you!
great documentary....
I was wondering what the intro song of this is, if you could tell me that would be awesome! I love the trombone even though i'm an alto saxaphone player, i wishy to be able to play the trombone some day.
I love playing Trombone!!! And I currently have three of them including a Soprano, Alto, and Bass Trombone. Next I want to buy a Contrabass Trombone in F but I need $10,000 for that so I have to save my money for a while lol.
There are cheaper Chinese ones out there.
@@TheTromboneChannel yeah I was told by a professional player to avoid the Chinese horns because they are crap and he said that I wouldn’t be happy with it. So I’m probably going to get a Jurgen Voigt F Contrabass Trombone because it seems like a really nice horn and it’s handmade in Germany.
Easily the most versatile instrument to exist.
debatable
@@Χριζαϊων_Ζηνόβῐος no
id say its inarguably up there as one of the most versatile, but at the top levels of playing, any instrument can be played with extreme versatility
@@ArsenalTheProtogen as an unbiased composer, what you just said can be said about every instrument. Trombone isn't any more versatile than any other brass instrument in my experience. In fact, it's a lot more limiting in textures and range than most other instruments. Sure, you can play really high and really low, but the embers of those extreme ranges don't have much use outside of solos.
My fine arts teacher actually played this in class for us
I play the trombone so seeing this video is very interesting
What was that badass ensemble trombone song at the end?
Epic video
Epic comment
real trombone champ facts
My favorite low brass piece is dance of the knights
No respect for Queisser here I see. Dissapointed because this is really important history. He commissioned the piece
That's what I said!!