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39% |
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21% |
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10% |
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| Don't own one, using school trumpet |
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21% |
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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:14 pm
You all should try this wicked-awesome trumpet trick. My friend taught me biggrin
Put all three valves down halfway (to cut the air in half) and go from high to low, with vibrato. It seriously sounds like a horse. It is so awesome.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:33 pm
DeSchim No fair! 'Carol of the Bells' was played by another band in our school. My band played 'Farandole', which is six and a half minutes of almost nonstop eighth notes/16ths runs at a fast tempo (160 bpm). By the end, the only one happy and hyper is a tenor sax player. Quote: Put all three valves down halfway (to cut the air in half) and go from high to low, with vibrato. It seriously sounds like a horse. It is so awesome.
You can also make sounds just like a flute, if you turn your trumpet over and blow through the bottom of the valves, occasionally pushing the one you're blowing into down. *nods*
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:54 pm
Puppa I got to learn how to do that when our band director in sixth grade gave us a Christmas piece to play. ^ ^ At the very, very end of the piece (the percussion had been making this 'clip-clop' noise with blocks of wood) the trumpets got to whinney. It was awesome. I do believe the piece you're talking about is Sleigh Ride. And yes, it is awesome. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:39 pm
hi i play the trunpet and i played it for 4 years
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:18 pm
Quote: You can also make sounds just like a flute, if you turn your trumpet over and blow through the bottom of the valves, occasionally pushing the one you're blowing into down. *nods* Oh my gosh, that is so cool. Haha this is why I love the trumpet.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:52 pm
iOggy Puppa I got to learn how to do that when our band director in sixth grade gave us a Christmas piece to play. ^ ^ At the very, very end of the piece (the percussion had been making this 'clip-clop' noise with blocks of wood) the trumpets got to whinney. It was awesome. I do believe the piece you're talking about is Sleigh Ride. And yes, it is awesome. biggrin agreed. I had to play that part too. My BD tried to teach me how to do it, but when he did it, it sounded really horrible. So when I did it, everyone was like, "dude, you just owned him at trumpet." xd it sounds better with one trumpet doing the whinney than it does a few more, or the whole section. But that's in my opinion.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:08 pm
Sminx You all should try this wicked-awesome trumpet trick. My friend taught me biggrin Put all three valves down halfway (to cut the air in half) and go from high to low, with vibrato. It seriously sounds like a horse. It is so awesome. I've Seen a couple of songs that require that
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:39 pm
A trumpet can sound like a few different instruments. That's part of its awesomeness.
It does sound neat with only one person doing it at a time, but it still sounded pretty cool when our entire section did it, especially since everyone did it well. ^ ^ (In jazz band this year, some other trumpet players were seeing who could do the best whinney, and I joined in just for the heck of it. They made me do it again. 3nodding ) It'd be great to upstage the teacher!
Sleigh Ride, hmm...
We got new music today, for our next concert. The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron and Armida are the two pieces that we've gotten so far, and our band director says he'll be handing out at least three or four other pieces. I'm just hoping we get to play a piece were practicing for our last concert, that he decided we weren't good enough yet to play (Rondeau From "Abdelazer"). I also wish we could play Waves of the Revolution, but our director insists that it's too simple...
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:00 am
hehe... my director is always showing off. Thing is, he absolutely CANNOT improvise. It's cool because he's a trumpet player too and when someone upstages him he acts like theirs was only moderately fine.
The only time I've used the half-way down trick is to slide to a higher note. The sound effect was kinda weird.
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:21 am
I'm on winter break right now, so not entirely sure what music I'll be playing this spring. Should be interesting, though; a bit of a change from the marching band stuff, too. Don't get me wrong, I love having 35 trumpets, but with a band that big, tuning and tempo are a lot harder to nail down. Give me my 75-person concert band, please? 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:56 pm
the whole trumpet section have a sick mind the put their mouth peace in each others bell
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:08 pm
My band director...I vaguely remember him saying something about him playing the flute, but he's a pretty good percussionist, too, and he also plays the piano.
He likes to show off for the band on the piano...When there's something he wants us to play right, he'll either sing the part (going up and down a scale and all, along with tapping out rhythm on his chest) or play it on the piano. He's pretty good.
Even if he did play trumpet, though, he wouldn't be able to show off on that, since up until last year we had this amazing player who could memorize things after playing them once or twice (or even listening to them), and could play really, really well. He graduated.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:18 pm
my trumpet sections have been pretty weird but mostly we get along and we swap mutes occasionally because someone might need one they don't have like a harmon for jazz or a bucket mute that kind of thing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:19 pm
i have a conn trumpet now i use to have a bundy but then i got a better one
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:48 pm
honestly i used to own two but now i have just 1
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