Thanks Jim! I’m great. Getting ready for my twins to graduate high school after this upcoming year (they’ll be seniors) Sarah is going into theater somewhere and David is a lefty baseball pitcher …poles apart! I miss the good ole days at Rice. You taught me some great things. Now I’m a retired teacher and still trying to improve my trumpet playing!
Thank you Jim... it's an inspiration for all.. honest, musical, lyrical, and delicately played.. Good example to follow.. congratulations.. Also your rendering of Brandt etudes is exemplary and a good lesson for us to follow.. 🥂
Fantastic playing Jim!! Out of left field, you recorded a version of the Haydn with a community band and posted it on the trumpet herald. Any chance you could throw it up on TH-cam? I remember it being an inspiring performance - and that's not easy to do on that piece. Thanks!!
Could you do Sachse 53?please? My friend Joyce Davis showed me your channel. She just gave me that etude and I can barely play up to F! I have been playing for 17 months, I sound pretty awful but I love to play my trumpet. Anyway really enjoy your channel.
This recording quality is amazing. Can you explain how you set up your mics and camera to have the two ribbon mics work so well in sync? I'm not that techy so I don't really understand how to get this kind of quality recording
For the first 100 or so of these, I used two cascade Fathead mics and whatever reverb engine was available on Audacity. I loaded the video and audio into a cheap video editing program and synced them up in there. Eventually, I invested in a better mic (Royer), interface (UA Apollo Twin) and ProTools, and started using Valhalla, and I think the last 250 or so sound much more natural.
Hi Jim, this recording in particular - is this 2 mics in stereo Blumlein? This one blows my socks off from a recording quality standpoint! (and ofc the playing is exemplary). Thanks!
Yes, this was done that way. I was getting some weird distortion, though, which I thought may have been a result of that configuration, which led me down a rabbit hole of exploration. I can't say I've gone in the right direction, lol.
I was at first troubled by this Charlier No.6, but ultimately respected it, but I must bring up what I heard on Sunday at the Philharmonic. It was a little disconcerting, in a Brahms concerto, to hear every note of the trumpet part perfectly clearly, but then in the Bruckner No.1, the trumpets were just overwhelmingly loud - drowned out most everything in its range. I'm sure it's a Disney hall balcony thing, it was similar in the Bruckner No.7, last April. The sound is not forced in any way. It is the widest, thickest trumpet sound I've ever heard and in the Bruckner No.1 (particularly the last movement) it was a glorious foghorn.
Normally I would have been playing the Brahms but was out with the flu. What you describe is a function of the hall. You will have a different experience depending on where you sit. More importantly, there is a huge difference between the way we play the accompaniment to the Brahms double concerto vs a Bruckner symphony. Any good musician would know that. Regarding the Charlier, none of these etudes are meant to be definitive. They are all quick one-offs meant to keep me focused and productive during covid. None of them are deep dives. The point was to “perform” every day to exercise that muscle. I posted them online to hold my feet to the fire.
Man, Jim- you just sound fabulous. Thank you for sharing with all of us!
Blue Collar Trumpet thanks, BCT.
Jim, thank you. You motivate and inspire us, as well.
Rich Tapper Thanks, Rich.
Fabulous Jim!! Why is it taking this long to hear this ? 🤦🏼♂️
Blessings to you
Thanks so much, Mark. I hope you are well.
Thanks Jim!
I’m great. Getting ready for my twins to graduate high school after this upcoming year (they’ll be seniors)
Sarah is going into theater somewhere and David is a lefty baseball pitcher …poles apart!
I miss the good ole days at Rice. You taught me some great things. Now I’m a retired teacher and still trying to improve my trumpet playing!
beautiful
Very nice playing. That is one of my favorites from the collection.
Thanks, Tim.
Thank you Jim... it's an inspiration for all.. honest, musical, lyrical, and delicately played.. Good example to follow.. congratulations.. Also your rendering of Brandt etudes is exemplary and a good lesson for us to follow.. 🥂
Thanks, Guillermo.
you are amazing trumpeter
It’s all smoke and mirrors, duct tape and baling wire, but thank you.
Fantastic.
Absolutely lovely Jim, thank you!
Thanks, Michael.
Bravo! Super nice soft touch you have in your playing !!
Thanks, Tomäs.
I like your interpretation and your sound is amazing, you are an inspiration for me.
Thanks, Rodrigo.
Loverly....
Almost 7 thousand views. Great! jw
Thanks, John. I’ll never have the 10m+ that Star Wars trumpet guy has, though. 😂. th-cam.com/video/plZ8cPbKNcc/w-d-xo.html
Esto es increible!!!
Thanks, David.
Fantastic playing Jim!! Out of left field, you recorded a version of the Haydn with a community band and posted it on the trumpet herald. Any chance you could throw it up on TH-cam? I remember it being an inspiring performance - and that's not easy to do on that piece. Thanks!!
It’s already up on my YT channel.
@@jimwilt4944 yeah, I ended up seeing it like 7 minutes later. Thanks for responding!! Fantastic version of the Haydn.
Could you do Sachse 53?please? My friend Joyce Davis showed me your channel. She just gave me that etude and I can barely play up to F! I have been playing for 17 months, I sound pretty awful but I love to play my trumpet. Anyway really enjoy your channel.
This recording quality is amazing. Can you explain how you set up your mics and camera to have the two ribbon mics work so well in sync? I'm not that techy so I don't really understand how to get this kind of quality recording
For the first 100 or so of these, I used two cascade Fathead mics and whatever reverb engine was available on Audacity. I loaded the video and audio into a cheap video editing program and synced them up in there. Eventually, I invested in a better mic (Royer), interface (UA Apollo Twin) and ProTools, and started using Valhalla, and I think the last 250 or so sound much more natural.
Hi Jim, this recording in particular - is this 2 mics in stereo Blumlein? This one blows my socks off from a recording quality standpoint! (and ofc the playing is exemplary). Thanks!
Yes, this was done that way. I was getting some weird distortion, though, which I thought may have been a result of that configuration, which led me down a rabbit hole of exploration. I can't say I've gone in the right direction, lol.
I was at first troubled by this Charlier No.6, but ultimately respected it, but I must bring up what I heard on Sunday at the Philharmonic. It was a little disconcerting, in a Brahms concerto, to hear every note of the trumpet part perfectly clearly, but then in the Bruckner No.1, the trumpets were just overwhelmingly loud - drowned out most everything in its range. I'm sure it's a Disney hall balcony thing, it was similar in the Bruckner No.7, last April. The sound is not forced in any way. It is the widest, thickest trumpet sound I've ever heard and in the Bruckner No.1 (particularly the last movement) it was a glorious foghorn.
Normally I would have been playing the Brahms but was out with the flu. What you describe is a function of the hall. You will have a different experience depending on where you sit. More importantly, there is a huge difference between the way we play the accompaniment to the Brahms double concerto vs a Bruckner symphony. Any good musician would know that.
Regarding the Charlier, none of these etudes are meant to be definitive. They are all quick one-offs meant to keep me focused and productive during covid. None of them are deep dives. The point was to “perform” every day to exercise that muscle. I posted them online to hold my feet to the fire.
Best
What key trumpet is that?
Jason Horvath C
bro sounds like a clarinet
(in some parts)
Ouch. Bro wasn’t trying to sound like a clarinet.
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