Maeve ... is it all worth it? YES, absolutely!! Your recordings are great!! Thank you so much for creating and sharing! Great job! [Greetings from this old trumpet player now trying to learn trombone in Tucson, wishing he had but a fraction of your talent!]
Wow...this video is really well done. Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. We do appreciate the time and energy you put into your work. Keep those videos coming!
Terrific tutoral! Best homemade brass videos on TH-cam!
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Great tutorial. Spot on :-) As an alternative to transcribing music by ear, one can find a suitable arrangement in the MuseScore community, and adapt it too the instrumentation one wants.
Nice work. Just be aware of rest for the players. Most arrangers for brass quintet forget about this . Even the good ones sometime. As you are aware, what to leave out is the challenge. You are doing a pretty good job making all the players ( melody lines) feel included in the arrangement. You go! Rock on...... keep them coming.... you just got a fan........ as you have guessed by now, I am also an arranger for many years.
Big fan here. I marvel at your performances. If there is one thing amiss, in my opinion, is that the fLHorm\tuba is sometimes overpowering. Your overall result is awesome. I always look forward to your videos. The music is great, but the best part is seeing you enjoy yourself so much. It's like your very own version of the "Snoopy Dance". It makes my day and makes the world a better place. Thank you for sharing your hard work with us.
Thank you so much for posting this. I first came across one of your videos when I listened to a MuseScore arrangement by Iowa Bob. Then a second one of your videos showed up in a Bob arrangement. I was dumbfounded on how you did this. I found you on TH-cam because one of your videos just showed up in the top horizontal videos when I opened TH-cam this morning (I wasn't search for you as I didn't know you were on TH-cam). Thanks again for all of your musical videos and for this great explanation.
Very impressive!! I just disovered your videos yesterday, and am hooked! I loved watching you go through the process of coordinating the different parts. I played trumpet both in high school (1964-68) and uni (1968-72), and still play today at age 70. During covid, I started trying to teach myself trombone, but have reverted to trumpet, playing "O Canada" on my back porch, every night at 6PM. Having lived in Queensland for 20 years (1974-94), I often play "Advance Australia Fair" as well. Keep up the great work, Maeve......looking forward to more of your wonderful videos! Karen in Canada
Thanks for all you do. I make multi-track videos of trombone quartets and quintets and I've learned a lot on MuseScore, which often leads me to your work. Never heard you speak until I came across this video!
Where in the process do you create your visual choreography? Horn placement left to right, head turns, gestures etc. You are obviously also thinking wardrobe like "Mas Que Nada", "Colors", "Star Trek", "Rasputin". You have clearly tilted to the side of subtilty. Bravo on that. My folks worked in Hollywood and on Broadway after that in the '30s and '40s before I came along. They taught me to look for stage craft in a performer and you have it. I think it rivals your musicianship and arranging in quality and creativity. Keep refining that part of the package.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback John. Always a pleasure to hear from you. As I'm setting up the green screen and camera for the video I play the track and think about any particular actions I want to do eg horn left/right. I also draw a quick diagram of where the players will be positioned. Then for each part I record, I visualise myself standing in the ensemble and as I play, I just try to interact with those imaginary players, and with the audience, the way I would in performance. The clothing is usually very simple - something that will crop out on the green screen properly, and suits the chart. Occasionally I take it further where there's a really iconic costume associated with the chart eg Marty Mcfly, Inspector Gadget. Just for fun. 😆 And I usually don't pick out the background until the last stage of editing. For what it's worth though, I was taught to think about stage presence and bearing. On some occasions, it's not enough just to play the right notes. The audience is there for a performance - to be entertained.
Thanks Charlotte. Ah the true colours video was a slight variation on my normal green screen. I wore a bright green tshirt, then shot on a plain white wall background. So the ultrakey (green screen) effect is on the shirt, rather than the background. Quite effective! 🙂
Wow, thanks for the reply! I’m a huge fan, so this is a big deal! 😊That’s really cool, what a very smart idea indeed! :) It also amazes me how you are able to arrange and transpose from the original song to brass, as when I have tried that I’ve always gotten confused and frustrated, and it never seems to sound the way I want it to. Any tips for beginners with this?
I enjoy your videos and Musescore arrangements very, very much! I am curious as to why you choose to do a score for instruments other than what you ultimately plan to write it for. Isn’t that a bit of double work, somewhat? Again, love your stuff!
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Great explained
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Hello Maeve, I also have used your arrangement in some of my home videos during the corona lock downs here in south of germany. Please check my video and do a comment. Many thanks for your arrangement; I hope i was allowed to use it via musescore.com. Great stuff from you. th-cam.com/video/sm0gJs8rdMk/w-d-xo.html
Ciao, very well done, tks. I see you are using mac program.Any suggestion for the equivalent working in pc windows? Now I am trying your arrangement of ABBA.
I can't speak from personal experience there, but some of the most popular DAWs with Windows versions are Ableton, Pro Tools and Cubase. I think you'll want to research it more fully yourself, but hopefully that gives somewhere to start.
Hi Maeve: You have done very fine work congratulations! Have you thought of doing any of recordings of John Williams? You may have already but a haven’t looked hard enough. I am a retired lead trumpet player in USA. I have only been recorded the old way the entire band played together at once. If someone messed up it had to be redone. It was a lot of pressure. Please keep up the good work🤗
Hey @jad1175, I love John Williams' music and have arranged a few. Acquiring a print license for his stuff is particularly difficult unfortunately, so publishing those arrangements isn't always possible. I did record one recently though - check out "Somewhere in My Memory" (the theme from Home Alone). On reflection, it's probably one of my favourites.
Super, Maeve! Your editing is also great. I thought your playing was so perfect that you never fluffed, cracked a note or so... However, because one has to play correctly when performing, it's good to practice that way too. And these recordings help one to concentrate and deliver within that space of time. You are answering a number of my questions I (and many others) have posted to you before. I don't use the software yet, but it would be interesting to see how you take the flügelhorn 2 octaves down to become a tuba. My next question you don't have to answer. I was just wondering whether you are using the bass notation when reading the trombone and the tuba music, or not? You are an amazing brass player, arranger, musician, engineer and person! Keep going!
Hi Peet, thanks for the questions! haha yes I am quite sure everyone makes the occasional fluff... especially on the horn! Here is a screenshot showing the transpose setting for the Fluba: support.apple.com/en-us/HT207960. You want -24, as in 24 semitones. An interesting sidenote - I was quite excited to try putting other instruments up and down by a few octaves but was dismayed to find it sounds pretty terrible on most other instruments. I have no idea why. Something about the tone of the flugel just works for Tuba. Very disappointing not to be able to put my trumpet up two or three octaves and feel like James Morrison for a moment! On your second question, no, I read the trombone and tuba in Bb and treble clef, brass band style. I can do the transposition if I am forced to... but it hurts my brain!
@@maevelander1 Hi Maeve, thanks again for your responses. Since I've began to record myself (in the technical phase now), I find it irritating to realise I'm not that good at all... So, my fluffs are far more than yours. And I have produced more that 5 cds before... I was not the sound engineer though. I don't feel as stupid now with you reading in brass band style. I have tried, but one has to be forced to do that everyday, then one will pick up so quickly. Especially if it's one's bread and butter, hey.?! If it were not for the Covid-19, I would have fetched myself a trombone and a tuba from the music center of the school. But yes, the embouchure... of which the French horn is the most challenging. So, your model is working fine. Great stuff! Stay well. Peet
I saw some of your videos and find it fantastic. Is there a chance you share the score of your quartett of "fields of gold"? Where is this arrangement from?
If I'm able to secure the licensing rights, I always share the score on Musescore and link in the video description. If there's no link, it's because I was unable to acquire a licence or because it's a transcription rather than an arrangement. You're welcome to email me as it's sometimes possible to share privately.
I love your videos. I also do similar videos but not as good. I use Sibelius and the same scarlet as you on a PC. Could I ask you 2 questions? I note you use Logic and Adobe. Are these apple only products/ could you recommend any similar PC products? You say you do the flugel for the bass part first, do you then pitch adjust this on Adobe? Thanks for reading this. I am in the UK but my Nephew live just round the corner to you. Tim
Hi Tim. Adobe Premiere (for the video editing) is available for both Mac and Windows. Logic Pro is Mac only, but there are many good DAWs that will do the same job for Windows. I'm not familiar enough to make a recommendation but I am sure some Google research will help you pick out one that suits your needs. Any decent DAW will have a pitch shift function. Happy editing!
Great Video. Answered 99% of the questions I thought I'd never get answered. I'm a little fizzy on how the tuba/horn sound is created by us trumpet players. Part of the Logic Editor?
Yeah, I drop the pitch of the flugel down 2 octaves using the Transpose function in Logic. A flugel is basically just a miniature tuba so it works! The trumpet down 1 octave sounds like a trombone but with a rather harsh tone.
So how do you make sure that your black bars are evenly spaced? Is there a template you go off of, because I was thinking about doing something like this though I wan't to make sure it's symettrical
Math. Set vertical position of the black layer relative to the height of the video, and the desired height of the bars. Or an alternate method using crop: th-cam.com/video/P2ZyPOE0_e8/w-d-xo.html
Maeve answered that question, she plays flugelhorn and uses the Logic (software) "transpose" function to lower the sound 2 octaves (-24). I think it makes a great tuba sound. If you really want to do this with a baritone horn or euphonium, it is already 1 octave down so I would guess transpose 1 more octave down (-12) if the low range of the instrument is not good enough already. I just now found this video, and plan to try this with my euphonium after I learn to make multi-track projects at all!
I just play it in on Flugel, then drop it two octaves (-24) using the transpose function in Logic. support.apple.com/en-us/HT207960. That's literally all I do - zero other effects. The warmer/fuller/rounder tone you have, the better it will sound (closer to a tuba). I found transposing the trumpet sounded pretty constipated, probably due to lack of conical bore and different overtones. But if trumpet is what you've got to work with, you could try experimenting with the EQ and Vocal Transformer effects? I'm curious, what exactly is not working too well for you?
@@maevelander1 Thank you very much! I've been working with a flugelhorn and didn't know that's how you can pitch shift. I've only used the vocal transformer on GarageBand. I mainly use Reaper DAW on my PC, so I hope it has a feature similar to Logic.
@@maevelander1 That's what I wondered. Thanks for the reply. BTW, really like Rasputin one - the best I have heard so far. Hope you have more like this.
Haha, suprise indeed. For unknown reasons, I had thought Scandinavia 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰. Anyway, applause 👏 and keep going 👍👍👍- perseverance is king! 🎺 Greetings from 🇩🇪 to 🇦🇺
All I can say is MINDBLOWING! Incredible genius!
You made it seem so easy. Both your tech and musical skills are impressive. Your videos are among the best on TH-cam.
Thanks Joe, that's very kind of you.
You look like you are having so much fun! Thanks....
Maeve ... is it all worth it? YES, absolutely!! Your recordings are great!! Thank you so much for creating and sharing! Great job! [Greetings from this old trumpet player now trying to learn trombone in Tucson, wishing he had but a fraction of your talent!]
haha thanks Jim!
Wow...this video is really well done. Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. We do appreciate the time and energy you put into your work. Keep those videos coming!
Very interesting! Thanks for your efforts in making this video. I love your performances! So much talent!
Terrific tutoral! Best homemade brass videos on TH-cam!
Great tutorial. Spot on :-)
As an alternative to transcribing music by ear, one can find a suitable arrangement in the MuseScore community, and adapt it too the instrumentation one wants.
Thank you for this tutorial.
Excellent instruction .... thank you. Impressive switch between trumpet and trombone.
Nice work. Just be aware of rest for the players. Most arrangers for brass quintet forget about this . Even the good ones sometime. As you are aware, what to leave out is the challenge. You are doing a pretty good job making all the players ( melody lines) feel included in the arrangement. You go! Rock on...... keep them coming.... you just got a fan........ as you have guessed by now, I am also an arranger for many years.
Thank you for this video. I love your arranging and the playing videos. Keep on stroking
Big fan here. I marvel at your performances. If there is one thing amiss, in my opinion, is that the fLHorm\tuba is sometimes overpowering. Your overall result is awesome. I always look forward to your videos. The music is great, but the best part is seeing you enjoy yourself so much. It's like your very own version of the "Snoopy Dance". It makes my day and makes the world a better place. Thank you for sharing your hard work with us.
Great talent!!! Well done Maeve
Thanks a lot for making this video and showing us the work and the engagement behind all the high quality! Keep going!
Excellent job Maeve (as always). You’re awesome.
-Gary
Excellent tutorial, makes my 'one take' efforts with my iPad look amateurish in the extreme! Thank you so much for sharing.
Fabulous! Your videos are wonderful, and your extraordinary talents are incredible. Good on you!
Thanks Allan! 🙇♀️
Thank you for your nice tips. I can really use this for my videos! :)
That's dedication Maeve. Thank you for keep posting your work!
Thanks. Youre a good teacher too ✌🏽
Just awesome. Love your vids! Thanks for sharing your wonderful gift!!!
Thank you for this informative video. Like your musical videos, this one is excellent. I’m looking forward to more of your videos.
quite the process!
Incredible. Stuff dreams are made on. Thank you.
You are the polymath of polymaths! Well done!
Thank you so much for posting this. I first came across one of your videos when I listened to a MuseScore arrangement by Iowa Bob. Then a second one of your videos showed up in a Bob arrangement. I was dumbfounded on how you did this. I found you on TH-cam because one of your videos just showed up in the top horizontal videos when I opened TH-cam this morning (I wasn't search for you as I didn't know you were on TH-cam). Thanks again for all of your musical videos and for this great explanation.
Thanks Nancy, glad you're enjoying the channel 🙂
Well done, I really like your videos, what precision, musicality and fluidity. I admire your work. 👍
Crikey, that looks like a lot of work!
Great tutorial, this was very informative and interesting!
Excellent!! I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Love your content.
Very impressive!! I just disovered your videos yesterday, and am hooked! I loved watching you go through the process of coordinating the different parts.
I played trumpet both in high school (1964-68) and uni (1968-72), and still play today at age 70. During covid, I started trying to teach myself trombone, but have reverted to trumpet, playing "O Canada" on my back porch, every night at 6PM. Having lived in Queensland for 20 years (1974-94), I often play "Advance Australia Fair" as well.
Keep up the great work, Maeve......looking forward to more of your wonderful videos!
Karen in Canada
Hi Karen, glad you're enjoying the channel, and great to hear you still love playing your trumpet. 🎺🍻
Thank you for sharing your working process and it was nice to hear your voice!
Love this vid! Thanks for sharing :D
Impresionante 🤩
Thanks for all you do. I make multi-track videos of trombone quartets and quintets and I've learned a lot on MuseScore, which often leads me to your work. Never heard you speak until I came across this video!
Where in the process do you create your visual choreography? Horn placement left to right, head turns, gestures etc. You are obviously also thinking wardrobe like "Mas Que Nada", "Colors", "Star Trek", "Rasputin". You have clearly tilted to the side of subtilty. Bravo on that. My folks worked in Hollywood and on Broadway after that in the '30s and '40s before I came along. They taught me to look for stage craft in a performer and you have it. I think it rivals your musicianship and arranging in quality and creativity. Keep refining that part of the package.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback John. Always a pleasure to hear from you. As I'm setting up the green screen and camera for the video I play the track and think about any particular actions I want to do eg horn left/right. I also draw a quick diagram of where the players will be positioned. Then for each part I record, I visualise myself standing in the ensemble and as I play, I just try to interact with those imaginary players, and with the audience, the way I would in performance. The clothing is usually very simple - something that will crop out on the green screen properly, and suits the chart. Occasionally I take it further where there's a really iconic costume associated with the chart eg Marty Mcfly, Inspector Gadget. Just for fun. 😆 And I usually don't pick out the background until the last stage of editing.
For what it's worth though, I was taught to think about stage presence and bearing. On some occasions, it's not enough just to play the right notes. The audience is there for a performance - to be entertained.
very well done
This is so helpful! I came from your True Colors cover, and I was curious how you did that.
Thanks Charlotte. Ah the true colours video was a slight variation on my normal green screen. I wore a bright green tshirt, then shot on a plain white wall background. So the ultrakey (green screen) effect is on the shirt, rather than the background. Quite effective! 🙂
Wow, thanks for the reply! I’m a huge fan, so this is a big deal! 😊That’s really cool, what a very smart idea indeed! :) It also amazes me how you are able to arrange and transpose from the original song to brass, as when I have tried that I’ve always gotten confused and frustrated, and it never seems to sound the way I want it to. Any tips for beginners with this?
Huzzah for MuseScore3!
+1 I'm a fan! Switched from Sibelius and never looked back.
same with many people
Now you should add an euphonium to your instrument collection.
I enjoy your videos and Musescore arrangements very, very much! I am curious as to why you choose to do a score for instruments other than what you ultimately plan to write it for. Isn’t that a bit of double work, somewhat? Again, love your stuff!
Great explained
Hello Maeve, I also have used your arrangement in some of my home videos during the corona lock downs here in south of germany. Please check my video and do a comment. Many thanks for your arrangement; I hope i was allowed to use it via musescore.com. Great stuff from you.
th-cam.com/video/sm0gJs8rdMk/w-d-xo.html
Great video!
Ciao, very well done, tks. I see you are using mac program.Any suggestion for the equivalent working in pc windows? Now I am trying your arrangement of ABBA.
I can't speak from personal experience there, but some of the most popular DAWs with Windows versions are Ableton, Pro Tools and Cubase. I think you'll want to research it more fully yourself, but hopefully that gives somewhere to start.
Hi Maeve: You have done very fine work congratulations! Have you thought of doing any of recordings of John Williams? You may have already but a haven’t looked hard enough. I am a retired lead trumpet player in USA. I have only been recorded the old way the entire band played together at once. If someone messed up it had to be redone. It was a lot of pressure. Please keep up the good work🤗
Hey @jad1175, I love John Williams' music and have arranged a few. Acquiring a print license for his stuff is particularly difficult unfortunately, so publishing those arrangements isn't always possible. I did record one recently though - check out "Somewhere in My Memory" (the theme from Home Alone). On reflection, it's probably one of my favourites.
Hello, thank you very much for this great video and the look behind the scenes. What's the name of the video editor again? Best regards
Adobe Premier Pro
Super, Maeve! Your editing is also great. I thought your playing was so perfect that you never fluffed, cracked a note or so... However, because one has to play correctly when performing, it's good to practice that way too. And these recordings help one to concentrate and deliver within that space of time. You are answering a number of my questions I (and many others) have posted to you before. I don't use the software yet, but it would be interesting to see how you take the flügelhorn 2 octaves down to become a tuba. My next question you don't have to answer. I was just wondering whether you are using the bass notation when reading the trombone and the tuba music, or not? You are an amazing brass player, arranger, musician, engineer and person! Keep going!
Hi Peet, thanks for the questions! haha yes I am quite sure everyone makes the occasional fluff... especially on the horn! Here is a screenshot showing the transpose setting for the Fluba: support.apple.com/en-us/HT207960. You want -24, as in 24 semitones. An interesting sidenote - I was quite excited to try putting other instruments up and down by a few octaves but was dismayed to find it sounds pretty terrible on most other instruments. I have no idea why. Something about the tone of the flugel just works for Tuba. Very disappointing not to be able to put my trumpet up two or three octaves and feel like James Morrison for a moment! On your second question, no, I read the trombone and tuba in Bb and treble clef, brass band style. I can do the transposition if I am forced to... but it hurts my brain!
@@maevelander1 Hi Maeve, thanks again for your responses. Since I've began to record myself (in the technical phase now), I find it irritating to realise I'm not that good at all... So, my fluffs are far more than yours. And I have produced more that 5 cds before... I was not the sound engineer though. I don't feel as stupid now with you reading in brass band style. I have tried, but one has to be forced to do that everyday, then one will pick up so quickly. Especially if it's one's bread and butter, hey.?! If it were not for the Covid-19, I would have fetched myself a trombone and a tuba from the music center of the school. But yes, the embouchure... of which the French horn is the most challenging. So, your model is working fine. Great stuff! Stay well. Peet
I saw some of your videos and find it fantastic. Is there a chance you share the score of your quartett of "fields of gold"? Where is this arrangement from?
If I'm able to secure the licensing rights, I always share the score on Musescore and link in the video description. If there's no link, it's because I was unable to acquire a licence or because it's a transcription rather than an arrangement. You're welcome to email me as it's sometimes possible to share privately.
I love your videos. I also do similar videos but not as good.
I use Sibelius and the same scarlet as you on a PC. Could I ask you 2 questions?
I note you use Logic and Adobe. Are these apple only products/ could you recommend any similar PC products?
You say you do the flugel for the bass part first, do you then pitch adjust this on Adobe?
Thanks for reading this.
I am in the UK but my Nephew live just round the corner to you.
Tim
Hi Tim. Adobe Premiere (for the video editing) is available for both Mac and Windows. Logic Pro is Mac only, but there are many good DAWs that will do the same job for Windows. I'm not familiar enough to make a recommendation but I am sure some Google research will help you pick out one that suits your needs. Any decent DAW will have a pitch shift function. Happy editing!
@@maevelander1 Thank you. I'll give it a go. 👍👍
Out of curiosity, would "Ride On" by AC/DC be possible? The melancholy nature may be suited well to brass.
Great Video. Answered 99% of the questions I thought I'd never get answered. I'm a little fizzy on how the tuba/horn sound is created by us trumpet players. Part of the Logic Editor?
Yeah, I drop the pitch of the flugel down 2 octaves using the Transpose function in Logic. A flugel is basically just a miniature tuba so it works! The trumpet down 1 octave sounds like a trombone but with a rather harsh tone.
So how do you make sure that your black bars are evenly spaced? Is there a template you go off of, because I was thinking about doing something like this though I wan't to make sure it's symettrical
Math. Set vertical position of the black layer relative to the height of the video, and the desired height of the bars.
Or an alternate method using crop: th-cam.com/video/P2ZyPOE0_e8/w-d-xo.html
Just a single Subscriber then you hit 1000🔥🔥🔥
At the filming stage, do you just pretend to play in front of the camera while the audio you recorded previously played?
How do you make a baritone horn sound like a tuba? Do you have an octave button on the computer?
Maeve answered that question, she plays flugelhorn and uses the Logic (software) "transpose" function to lower the sound 2 octaves (-24). I think it makes a great tuba sound. If you really want to do this with a baritone horn or euphonium, it is already 1 octave down so I would guess transpose 1 more octave down (-12) if the low range of the instrument is not good enough already. I just now found this video, and plan to try this with my euphonium after I learn to make multi-track projects at all!
Is there anyway you could go more in-depth about how you get your tuba sound? I'm trying to replicate it myself, but it is not working nearly as well.
I just play it in on Flugel, then drop it two octaves (-24) using the transpose function in Logic. support.apple.com/en-us/HT207960. That's literally all I do - zero other effects.
The warmer/fuller/rounder tone you have, the better it will sound (closer to a tuba). I found transposing the trumpet sounded pretty constipated, probably due to lack of conical bore and different overtones. But if trumpet is what you've got to work with, you could try experimenting with the EQ and Vocal Transformer effects?
I'm curious, what exactly is not working too well for you?
@@maevelander1 Thank you very much! I've been working with a flugelhorn and didn't know that's how you can pitch shift. I've only used the vocal transformer on GarageBand. I mainly use Reaper DAW on my PC, so I hope it has a feature similar to Logic.
No worries, glad that did the trick! 😆
How can you play Flugel 2 octave down as a tuba?
It's played at normal pitch, then dropped two octaves using the software.
@@maevelander1 That's what I wondered. Thanks for the reply. BTW, really like Rasputin one - the best I have heard so far. Hope you have more like this.
oops, I meant fuzzy
could have sworn you were british. i guess i'm partially right lol.
I really like your stuff but can’t get it nowhere?
Could you come back to me on that
Thanks
If sheet music is available I always put it in the description.
This whole time I thought you were German. 🤦🏼♂️
Haha surprise! 🇦🇺🐨
Haha, suprise indeed. For unknown reasons, I had thought Scandinavia 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰. Anyway, applause 👏 and keep going 👍👍👍- perseverance is king! 🎺
Greetings from 🇩🇪 to 🇦🇺