Steve , this is a clear, clean and exact way how to play Taps! It couldn't be done any better. My ordered bugle will be here in one week and I can't wait to do this lesson with it in hand! You are one fine teacher Steve! Thank you!!!!
I'm still at the stage of making the BUZZ. I know that I have to be able to do this to produce the sound on the bugle. I will learn to play it! Practice, Practice. Thanks for contacting me!@@plikhevat
I am still practicing Taps with Steve the Musician. My lips usually run out of power before the end of the lesson. My goal is to play Taps at veterans funerals.
I am so glad I found your channel!! I'm in the American Legion honor guard and I'm trying my best to learn how to play taps so I won't have to use the recording 😁
Hey @cheriecarpenter3529. Were you able to achieve your goal of playing Taps? I am currently chasing the goal of being able to play at a veterans funeral. Right now I'm pretty weak.
@bmcscwcherylcromwell620 he does have another video that shows how to play the bugle. "HE IS THE BEST INSTRUCTOR FOR BUGLE" I went through all the others and he is the best..I have his entire training sessions...it took me about a yr to master the right tone for it..practice, practice and you will eventually get it..
I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm in the American Legion Honor Guard. I'm desperate to learn how to play bugle at the funerals. We're short handed so they have been having me fire a weapon, and use their bugle with an mp3 player in it, and I don't like doing that, I'm desperate to learn! I was at a funeral the other day and the battery died two notes into the taps, and I wanted to crawl in a hole!!!
i understand exactly how that feels. im in the navy honor guard and we was in the same situation, short staffed. The battery was low on mine so the mp3 was supper quiet. i will now learn the bugal to make ammends. i felt so bad
Hey Steve, I am the teen here in the Carribean, A cadet also perhaps. I am actually eager to play the bugle at camps to seek to bring back the old traditional ways. Here we don't have bugles and its very hard to find on on the island..and to import one will be so much work your thoughts and feedback will be greatly appreciated!
It is eleven thirty on october 22nd. I am hoping to play taps at a Veterans Day ceremony. Except I don’t play bugle or trumpet. I play guitar and bagpipes...
I've been practicing with @StevetheMusician on Taps for months now and have found the lessons to be a great blessing. I am easily discouraged and, occasionally, find myself in the pits of dispare when I can't reach the note required. However, in thay case, I usually
@@StevetheMusician Hey Steve, I am the teen here in the Carribean, A cadet also perhaps. I am actually eager to play the bugle at camps to seek to bring back the old traditional ways. Here we don't have bugles and its very hard to find on on the island..and to import one will be so much work your thoughts and feedback will be greatly appreciated!
It works great on Trumpet & virtually every Brass instrument that's being made because not a lot of musicians have Bugles so Trumpets work great for this too. Bugle is a type of Natural Trumpet
I hope you haven't given up on your journey yet. I am just embarking on mine and found this creator. Here is a video of his that describes exactly what you ask. What I'm gathering from the videos that I've watched is that a bugle is not like, say, a piano where you do some "exact" thing to make a note. I'm thinking it shares some qualities with singing in that you "find" the notes. I could be wrong as I'm just starting out. Anyways...Here is his video. I hope it helps! th-cam.com/video/G29e5yb_UZ8/w-d-xo.html
Hey could you do more videos on this? I'm part of a boyscout troop and I'm aiming to become a bugler. I already play the piano and the french horn. Tips?
Nathan, Thanks for watching. I'm planning on going through all of the Boy Scout merit badge calls. Stay tuned. I also play French Horn. Bugle is much, much easier. Just play it like a french horn with no valves. I'm sure you won't have too much trouble.
That bugle was either a gift, or a flea market find. I don't remember which. It's a typical boy scout style bugle in the key of G. You could ask your local Music store. They'll send you in the right direction. The key is to find yourself a good mouthpiece. I like a trumpet 3C or 5C for a bugle.
Thank you so much Steve!!! I've been on the Florida Honor Guard team for 3 years now. And your video really helped me gain the confidence I needed to play live at ceremonies. ❤️🤍💙
Im os sorry but the but music boxs in the front of the trumpets to make it some still play but to make the family feel better they still have someone there to old it some times the blow air to make it work but i still respeted them
Enjoying your channel but I am confused about the key you are playing. The notes on the sheet music says G G C G C F but according to my turner your notes are D D G D G B.
Taps being very somber and emotional is all the more reason for it to be played in a more rubato manner as opposed to as if you're playing with a metronome, which is more robotic. You don't like fermatas on the dotted half notes? Heck, I like fermatas on those notes as well as on the dotted 8th-notes. I disagree strongly with your opinion that it should be played in metronome time. And if you insist on playing in metronome time, then at least you should slow it way down. After all, It's Taps, not a Sousa march. Another tip: You can still make a distinction between the dotted-eight/sixteen figures (in the pickup and the first measure) and the two eighth-note figures (in the 2nd and 3rd measures) without playing the 16th notes as staccato as you do. That 16th note should be played more legato. You're creating WAY too much space/separation between the sixteenth notes and the dotted half notes in the next measure. It's supposed to be smooth and somber, not rickety and choppy as you are playing it. Another interpretive opinion of mine: Again, being somber and a song that is supposed to be calming and soothing, along those lines, vibrato is really not appropriate, especially the fast, machine-gun vibrato that you're playing. A lot of players don't have a stable sound and the kind of aperture control that is required to be able to sustain notes steadily and in a controlled manner, so they cover that up by using vibrato. Playing it straight is better and more in-character for the nature of taps. I believe in fading (decrescendo) slightly on the dotted half notes and especially on the final note. I also noticed Steve, that your sound is fuzzy overall and when you decrescendo, you're getting some crickle-crackle happening in the sound. This is indicative that something in the embouchure needs to be corrected. You can't clear up a fuzzy sound just by practicing long tones, because if the embouchure is wrong to being with, all you're doing is getting good at playing wrong. Claude Gordon's Systematic Approach is good for correcting such problems because the playing of pedal tones gets you to do things unconsciously to change some of the mechanics of your embouchure that increase vibrating fluency and clean up the sound. It also gets the lips to operate in more of a balanced manner, which increases the ability to play in the altissimo register. If you want to know my idea of what taps should sound like, here's a good example: th-cam.com/video/Bfe4TxvUOiw/w-d-xo.html Notice how the 16th notes are more legato. Notice that it's not played in metronome time. Notice that there's almost a total absence of vibrato. He doesn't use a vibrato all of the time and when he does, it's minimal. And if you insist on the metronome timing, it should be slowed down and played as in this one: th-cam.com/video/9MKqGL1aDDw/w-d-xo.html Again, no vibrato, legato 16th notes, and even though he played it in time to keep with the accompaniment, the tempo was very slow. OK, that's your free lesson for today. Oh, and by the way, it's "fermata," not "firm ah daaah."
Yes, there is everything WRONG with the electric bugle! While it never clams a note, it sounds like recording. It may as well be a Boom-box. If the holder of the bugle-shape-thing forgets, it will automatically play another call. And worst of all, yes Friends, Romans, countrymen, Americans. . .sometimes the batteries die in the middle of one of the most poignant and important moments in the life and history of the family as they lay to rest their loved one! No Electronic Bugles! ;-)
My daughter is trying to earn the bugling merit badge. Your videos are very helpful.
Steve , this is a clear, clean and exact way how to play Taps! It couldn't be done any better. My ordered bugle will be here in one week and I can't wait to do this lesson with it in hand! You are one fine teacher Steve! Thank you!!!!
Hey Larry. I just saw your comment to Steve and am wondering how your practice is going.
My practice is going slower than I expected.
I'm still at the stage of making the BUZZ. I know that I have to be able to do this to produce the sound on the bugle. I will learn to play it! Practice, Practice. Thanks for contacting me!@@plikhevat
I am still practicing Taps with Steve the Musician. My lips usually run out of power before the end of the lesson. My goal is to play Taps at veterans funerals.
@@larryrhindress2972 thank your perse
I am so glad I found your channel!! I'm in the American Legion honor guard and I'm trying my best to learn how to play taps so I won't have to use the recording 😁
I am so glad I can be of help!
Same !!!
Good Luck !!
Hey @cheriecarpenter3529. Were you able to achieve your goal of playing Taps? I am currently chasing the goal of being able to play at a veterans funeral.
Right now I'm pretty weak.
I don’t understand how people can dislike this video
Because he does not show how to play the bugle. He just show notes. I know the notes but I need to know how to make that sound with my bugle.
@bmcscwcherylcromwell620
he does have another video that shows how to play the bugle. "HE IS THE BEST INSTRUCTOR FOR BUGLE" I went through all the others and he is the best..I have his entire training sessions...it took me about a yr to master the right tone for it..practice, practice and you will eventually get it..
I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm in the American Legion Honor Guard. I'm desperate to learn how to play bugle at the funerals. We're short handed so they have been having me fire a weapon, and use their bugle with an mp3 player in it, and I don't like doing that, I'm desperate to learn! I was at a funeral the other day and the battery died two notes into the taps, and I wanted to crawl in a hole!!!
i understand exactly how that feels. im in the navy honor guard and we was in the same situation, short staffed. The battery was low on mine so the mp3 was supper quiet. i will now learn the bugal to make ammends. i felt so bad
Hey Steve, I am the teen here in the Carribean, A cadet also perhaps. I am actually eager to play the bugle at camps to seek to bring back the old traditional ways. Here we don't have bugles and its very hard to find on on the island..and to import one will be so much work your thoughts and feedback will be greatly appreciated!
I am waiting for my bugle and another one-valve bugle. Ready to support veterans through the VFW Honor Guard.
Great instruction !! Thank you !
If my dad heard your intro, he bark out, “OOORAH!” He is a former Marine to the bones-marrow lol.
It is eleven thirty on october 22nd. I am hoping to play taps at a Veterans Day ceremony. Except I don’t play bugle or trumpet. I play guitar and bagpipes...
You could totally do it. Check out my How to Play a Bugle video and the Bugle Exercises playlist. More exercises are to come.
I've been practicing with @StevetheMusician on Taps for months now and have found the lessons to be a great blessing. I am easily discouraged and, occasionally, find myself in the pits of dispare when I can't reach the note required. However, in thay case, I usually
@@StevetheMusician Hey Steve, I am the teen here in the Carribean, A cadet also perhaps. I am actually eager to play the bugle at camps to seek to bring back the old traditional ways. Here we don't have bugles and its very hard to find on on the island..and to import one will be so much work your thoughts and feedback will be greatly appreciated!
JS Regulation? :) I think it's US Regulation.
Thanks for the vid!
It works great on Trumpet & virtually every Brass instrument that's being made because not a lot of musicians have Bugles so Trumpets work great for this too. Bugle is a type of Natural Trumpet
What brand bugal or trumpet
could you please please make a video of how to make low and high notes because i am very struggling on that
I hope you haven't given up on your journey yet. I am just embarking on mine and found this creator. Here is a video of his that describes exactly what you ask. What I'm gathering from the videos that I've watched is that a bugle is not like, say, a piano where you do some "exact" thing to make a note. I'm thinking it shares some qualities with singing in that you "find" the notes. I could be wrong as I'm just starting out. Anyways...Here is his video. I hope it helps!
th-cam.com/video/G29e5yb_UZ8/w-d-xo.html
thanks it was helpfull
Hey could you do more videos on this?
I'm part of a boyscout troop and I'm aiming to become a bugler.
I already play the piano and the french horn. Tips?
Nathan,
Thanks for watching.
I'm planning on going through all of the Boy Scout merit badge calls. Stay tuned.
I also play French Horn. Bugle is much, much easier.
Just play it like a french horn with no valves. I'm sure you won't have too much trouble.
Legit exact same situation
except I play Baritone/Euph
Probably really late but same! I play repetitive and I just got a bugle, and want to be a troop bugler!
Same I'm trying to become a bugler
What mouthpiece do you use?
Thanks, brother...I'm gettin' it.
Can you tell me where you bought this bugle because I have no clue what one to buy
That bugle was either a gift, or a flea market find. I don't remember which. It's a typical boy scout style bugle in the key of G.
You could ask your local Music store. They'll send you in the right direction.
The key is to find yourself a good mouthpiece. I like a trumpet 3C or 5C for a bugle.
@@StevetheMusician thank you also I’m trying to play taps but I don’t know how to get to those hover notes can you help me?
Want to learn got a bugle off amazon does the mouth peace make a difference
I feel this one doesn't work for me
Good job!!!..
Do you use a trumpet mouthpiece on your bugle?
I have just found a bugle in my dad’s garage and when I try playing it, instead of a “G” a “E” comes out. Is this because of me or the bugle itself?
Are you sure it isn't first and third?
Thank you so much Steve!!! I've been on the Florida Honor Guard team for 3 years now. And your video really helped me gain the confidence I needed to play live at ceremonies. ❤️🤍💙
" The Marines know what they're doing"
Well that's a stretch.
How to buy bugle key of g ..
Im os sorry but the but music boxs in the front of the trumpets to make it some still play but to make the family feel better they still have someone there to old it some times the blow air to make it work but i still respeted them
THANKS
dude i just got a bugle and camp is this weekend, it’s just not working 😭😭😭
(Psst, it says US regulation, not JS, it was made by rexcraft, i am pretty sure)
I think it is harder to get the right notes out of the bugle than the melody .
Enjoying your channel but I am confused about the key you are playing. The notes on the sheet music says G G C G C F but according to my turner your notes are D D G D G B.
Taps being very somber and emotional is all the more reason for it to be played in a more rubato manner as opposed to as if you're playing with a metronome, which is more robotic. You don't like fermatas on the dotted half notes? Heck, I like fermatas on those notes as well as on the dotted 8th-notes. I disagree strongly with your opinion that it should be played in metronome time. And if you insist on playing in metronome time, then at least you should slow it way down. After all, It's Taps, not a Sousa march. Another tip: You can still make a distinction between the dotted-eight/sixteen figures (in the pickup and the first measure) and the two eighth-note figures (in the 2nd and 3rd measures) without playing the 16th notes as staccato as you do. That 16th note should be played more legato. You're creating WAY too much space/separation between the sixteenth notes and the dotted half notes in the next measure. It's supposed to be smooth and somber, not rickety and choppy as you are playing it. Another interpretive opinion of mine: Again, being somber and a song that is supposed to be calming and soothing, along those lines, vibrato is really not appropriate, especially the fast, machine-gun vibrato that you're playing. A lot of players don't have a stable sound and the kind of aperture control that is required to be able to sustain notes steadily and in a controlled manner, so they cover that up by using vibrato. Playing it straight is better and more in-character for the nature of taps. I believe in fading (decrescendo) slightly on the dotted half notes and especially on the final note. I also noticed Steve, that your sound is fuzzy overall and when you decrescendo, you're getting some crickle-crackle happening in the sound. This is indicative that something in the embouchure needs to be corrected. You can't clear up a fuzzy sound just by practicing long tones, because if the embouchure is wrong to being with, all you're doing is getting good at playing wrong. Claude Gordon's Systematic Approach is good for correcting such problems because the playing of pedal tones gets you to do things unconsciously to change some of the mechanics of your embouchure that increase vibrating fluency and clean up the sound. It also gets the lips to operate in more of a balanced manner, which increases the ability to play in the altissimo register. If you want to know my idea of what taps should sound like, here's a good example: th-cam.com/video/Bfe4TxvUOiw/w-d-xo.html Notice how the 16th notes are more legato. Notice that it's not played in metronome time. Notice that there's almost a total absence of vibrato. He doesn't use a vibrato all of the time and when he does, it's minimal. And if you insist on the metronome timing, it should be slowed down and played as in this one: th-cam.com/video/9MKqGL1aDDw/w-d-xo.html Again, no vibrato, legato 16th notes, and even though he played it in time to keep with the accompaniment, the tempo was very slow. OK, that's your free lesson for today. Oh, and by the way, it's "fermata," not "firm ah daaah."
same
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Yes, there is everything WRONG with the electric bugle! While it never clams a note, it sounds like recording. It may as well be a Boom-box. If the holder of the bugle-shape-thing forgets, it will automatically play another call. And worst of all, yes Friends, Romans, countrymen, Americans. . .sometimes the batteries die in the middle of one of the most poignant and important moments in the life and history of the family as they lay to rest their loved one! No Electronic Bugles! ;-)
My bugle cost $48
stop yapping bud