Thanks for posting Trent. I also have only played at Nats for 2 bands Hutt City (and Hutt Municipal before the amalgamation) and Brass Wanganui (and Wanganui Garrison before that amalgamation). It was lovely catching up with Linda and Richard Richardson, Russell Boyle and the few remaining from my time with Hutt. Congrats on the band's results, and I look forward to your future posts
This was extremely interesting from an American perspective. Thank you so very much for sharing this, as we really have nothing like this here. The most similar competition we have are band pageants, but those are for junior high and high school students and include woodwinds and color guard. When you got to the "dreaded" marching portion of the competition and very accurately described the difficulty that is inherently found in marching and playing simultaneously, I couldn't help but think what you would think if you spent some time watching or reacting to Drum Corps International. Despite it's name it is an almost exclusively American institution (we have a knack for doing that), and it showcases brass, percussion, and color guard at extraordinarily high levels. It even manages to show some oft-maligned brass instruments (mellophone) in a rather positive light. I just think exploring the different brass traditions of different cultures might be interesting. Either way, I've always loved the channel, and take care.
Hah, I have London Overture as my phone's ring tone! Recorded it at the Swedish nationals a few years back, where it was the own choice of one of the A-grade bands even. Glad to see you enjoying the marching :D
Of course Wellington won. I remember a few years ago they came to Australia to compete in our nationals and my band had the joy of competing in A grade with them. They were top 3 and my band lost by a mile but it was phenomenal to hear them play.
I caught up with some of the competition, and managed to hear Wellington Brass play their own choice. A truly magnificent performance. I thought the standard of musicianship throughout the contest was extremely high. Well done Hutt City Brass.
Man this looks cool! All your pieces were incredible. But I have to say after marching for 5 years in high school and college seeing even professionals not using fundamentals while marching is kind of funny
It seemed a very enjoyable gathering for everyone involved. To answer your question about how it compares with competitions where I live, basically adult bands don't have competions here in California, for better or worse. The point is really moot here, because in comparison to NZ, our government has botched the whole Covid thing and very few musical organizations are playing fulltime yet. In normal times, schools do compete both in parades and field shows. I think I noticed one of your parade pieces was Eagle Squadron March. Schools around here have used that piece in parades. Great report!
It's like Test Cricket but for brass bands, being played over 5 days. I did a lot of contesting in the UK in my younger days, but they are always done in one day in the UK. When it comes to marching, my dad refused to play his normal instrument of tenor trombone due to a couple of incidents where he nearly got the entire instrument rammed through his face. He would borrow a baritone or euphonium or even an Eb bass to play the solo trombone part on the march. I played Eb bass for many years, but when I switched to BBb bass I refused to march unless they found me an old lightweight 3 valve BBb bass or an Eb to march with, the 4 value BBb basses are just too heavy to carry even with a strap (and a lot of modern basses don't have rings on them to even take a strap).
As a high schooler in America, parades are the least of our worries, we do those all the time. It’s when you get on the field to perform a show that is really difficult, it combines marching in several directions whilst facing the audience, body work, and dance. If you feel like it, or if you even see this comment, react to a dci show or two, it is a very good way to get familiar with American marching band culture. College bands do their own thing, high school bands and drum corps are similar show wise, now in technical ability, drum corps are far better. Also we do not march concert tubas or euphoniums, we have specific instruments that are made for marching, such as the contra, the sousaphone, the marching euphonium/baritone, and the mellophone (ik I specifically said tubas and euphoniums, but I figured I’d mention mellophones because they’re basically French horn substitutes, and we don’t march those either)
the role of holding the sign with the name of the band - 5:15 - as the Joker would say, "Why so serious? Let's put a smile on that face" and with your self effacing humor, you always do [to be clear here, self effacing is used in this instance to actually mean the exact opposite of its definition]
I'm not allowed in a brass band (my instrument being considered too circular), but I do have fond memories of playing an arrangement for wind band of a brass band test piece - Resurgam (I think by Eric Ball).
Oh I've seen and played under similar, and worse. I've seen a conductor that held both hands with palms together in front of him, and waved them around as if imitating a fish for children's TV. Fortunately I only saw that I wasn't playing. Best conductor I played under in terms of clarity of conducting was a woman by the name of Pat France, I sometimes wonder where she is now.
In an orchestral environment you start to wonder if their arm waving correlates to any kind of time signature at all. It becomes a furious upper-body gymnastics routine more than anything, facial expressions and all.
If you wanna check out my personal favorite form of brass music, I’d recommend checking out DCI, Drum corps international. Some of the best brass playing I’ve ever heard is in DCI shows and it provides a really interesting new perspective.
That's bizarre to me. DCI is cool but the standard of specifically brass playing is absolutely nowhere near top brass bands. I've listened to many auditions for DCI as well and heck, I'd give most of them a run for their money and I don't even play in a top section band in the UK! Go watch a couple of YBS recordings on RUclips if you want the absolute pinnacle of brass playing
Looks like a good time. Who's the trombone behind you?. Send my commiserations to the bass bone playing hard by the tympani - been there, couldn't hear that!
I miss playing REAL brass band music. In my band alot of the good musicians have left the band. We have resorted to playing oldschoold pop mucis. Last time I really were happy playing in that band was back in 2019 when we performed Oregon by Jacob de Haan at our countries national and got an overall 8th place
what's with the low horn angles? forgive me for being American, but all the groups I've seen usually have their horns at parallel or 10 degrees above the horizon
How does Matt Stein go as a conductor?? He came over to Aus and played top cornet for my band Feds at the 2019 nationals and I got to play with him at the rose parade in California with the salvo band, but never seen him in front of a band before.
Oh Trent, someone has to get last, that's why we went wasn't it! Enjoyed your review of the weekend thanks. What's it like playing in a real band.? Kind regards to your extended family.
Thanks for choosing two clips where I nailed my top Cs, rather than the one where I splattered it all over the back wall!
I went there too! A good 5 days there. I saw you but I was too rushed to come and say hello. I played second trombone for marlborough brass
Look at this dude
5:42 The youth band when mom isn't home
Was great to play alongside you again Trent, and to hear your jokes here and there. I'm sure I'll be back in the bandroom soon enough.
Tonight, 7:45pm.
It's always a pleasure to watch musicians of all ages and abilities enjoying making music together. Thank you...
Well done on the set test, your performance was a highlight of my musical (and compositional) career!
Philip Sparke's compositions always leave me in awe. Thank you for reminding me to listen to more!
This is the sweetest music I have heard all day, all week and all month. A good balance in the various parts with plenty of horn discipline.
I play a mini Sousaphone, can I join in the band one day maybe?
Thanks for posting Trent. I also have only played at Nats for 2 bands Hutt City (and Hutt Municipal before the amalgamation) and Brass Wanganui (and Wanganui Garrison before that amalgamation). It was lovely catching up with Linda and Richard Richardson, Russell Boyle and the few remaining from my time with Hutt. Congrats on the band's results, and I look forward to your future posts
Havent watched ur videos for a while, you lost so much weight man, how did you do it?
Heroin
@@TrentHamilton i didn’t know you were a jazz musician!
@@brhim5731 lol :)
@@TrentHamilton SAY THE TRUTH
Holy shit!
I haven't seen you videos for a while and now I've comes back congrats on your weight loss!
This was extremely interesting from an American perspective. Thank you so very much for sharing this, as we really have nothing like this here. The most similar competition we have are band pageants, but those are for junior high and high school students and include woodwinds and color guard. When you got to the "dreaded" marching portion of the competition and very accurately described the difficulty that is inherently found in marching and playing simultaneously, I couldn't help but think what you would think if you spent some time watching or reacting to Drum Corps International. Despite it's name it is an almost exclusively American institution (we have a knack for doing that), and it showcases brass, percussion, and color guard at extraordinarily high levels. It even manages to show some oft-maligned brass instruments (mellophone) in a rather positive light. I just think exploring the different brass traditions of different cultures might be interesting. Either way, I've always loved the channel, and take care.
Hah, I have London Overture as my phone's ring tone! Recorded it at the Swedish nationals a few years back, where it was the own choice of one of the A-grade bands even. Glad to see you enjoying the marching :D
This looks absolutely magnificent
Of course Wellington won. I remember a few years ago they came to Australia to compete in our nationals and my band had the joy of competing in A grade with them. They were top 3 and my band lost by a mile but it was phenomenal to hear them play.
I caught up with some of the competition, and managed to hear Wellington Brass play their own choice. A truly magnificent performance. I thought the standard of musicianship throughout the contest was extremely high. Well done Hutt City Brass.
Thanks Alan! We (Wellington) played as best as we could ! Soo thank you
Well done, some great sounds and a great vid. Thank you
Looking good Trent! (good performance as well of course)
Good sounding band. Congrats! And "Army of The Nile" is a favorite of mine.
Extremely impressive.
Thanks for share this events and explanation about NZ brass band. I'm prepare to join with Napier band.
Great video as always and congratulations on the weight loss. How is the family doing sir?
Man this looks cool! All your pieces were incredible. But I have to say after marching for 5 years in high school and college seeing even professionals not using fundamentals while marching is kind of funny
Well played sir
Looking GREAT, Trent!!!
I’m married, so keep your eyes to yourself. :P
Nice job Trent. I am disappointed not to see the Indian 6 valve trumpet in the section, however!
It seemed a very enjoyable gathering for everyone involved. To answer your question about how it compares with competitions where I live, basically adult bands don't have competions here in California, for better or worse. The point is really moot here, because in comparison to NZ, our government has botched the whole Covid thing and very few musical organizations are playing fulltime yet. In normal times, schools do compete both in parades and field shows. I think I noticed one of your parade pieces was Eagle Squadron March. Schools around here have used that piece in parades. Great report!
5:10 YO MY HIGH SCHOOL BAND PLAYED THAT ONE YEAR. I liked playing that piece. It's nice.
It's like Test Cricket but for brass bands, being played over 5 days. I did a lot of contesting in the UK in my younger days, but they are always done in one day in the UK. When it comes to marching, my dad refused to play his normal instrument of tenor trombone due to a couple of incidents where he nearly got the entire instrument rammed through his face. He would borrow a baritone or euphonium or even an Eb bass to play the solo trombone part on the march. I played Eb bass for many years, but when I switched to BBb bass I refused to march unless they found me an old lightweight 3 valve BBb bass or an Eb to march with, the 4 value BBb basses are just too heavy to carry even with a strap (and a lot of modern basses don't have rings on them to even take a strap).
As a high schooler in America, parades are the least of our worries, we do those all the time. It’s when you get on the field to perform a show that is really difficult, it combines marching in several directions whilst facing the audience, body work, and dance. If you feel like it, or if you even see this comment, react to a dci show or two, it is a very good way to get familiar with American marching band culture. College bands do their own thing, high school bands and drum corps are similar show wise, now in technical ability, drum corps are far better.
Also we do not march concert tubas or euphoniums, we have specific instruments that are made for marching, such as the contra, the sousaphone, the marching euphonium/baritone, and the mellophone (ik I specifically said tubas and euphoniums, but I figured I’d mention mellophones because they’re basically French horn substitutes, and we don’t march those either)
Loved the army of the nile for the Street March
Oooh! Love Army of the Nile! My schools concert band played that March last year
I think this video was excellent!
the role of holding the sign with the name of the band - 5:15 - as the Joker would say, "Why so serious? Let's put a smile on that face" and with your self effacing humor, you always do [to be clear here, self effacing is used in this instance to actually mean the exact opposite of its definition]
I'm not allowed in a brass band (my instrument being considered too circular), but I do have fond memories of playing an arrangement for wind band of a brass band test piece - Resurgam (I think by Eric Ball).
Nice to hear Alford on the march btw.
I have never seen anyone use their baton and conduct with their left hand, wow
Oh I've seen and played under similar, and worse. I've seen a conductor that held both hands with palms together in front of him, and waved them around as if imitating a fish for children's TV. Fortunately I only saw that I wasn't playing. Best conductor I played under in terms of clarity of conducting was a woman by the name of Pat France, I sometimes wonder where she is now.
In an orchestral environment you start to wonder if their arm waving correlates to any kind of time signature at all. It becomes a furious upper-body gymnastics routine more than anything, facial expressions and all.
@@Metal-Possum Surprisingly you do still get the time signature from that, or at least the speed the conductor wants it played at.
You're looking well mate
If you wanna check out my personal favorite form of brass music, I’d recommend checking out DCI, Drum corps international. Some of the best brass playing I’ve ever heard is in DCI shows and it provides a really interesting new perspective.
That's bizarre to me. DCI is cool but the standard of specifically brass playing is absolutely nowhere near top brass bands. I've listened to many auditions for DCI as well and heck, I'd give most of them a run for their money and I don't even play in a top section band in the UK! Go watch a couple of YBS recordings on RUclips if you want the absolute pinnacle of brass playing
Interesting how common cornets are over there, here in Hungary I know exactly one band who uses them (Kőszeg Város Fúvószenekara).
Looks like a good time. Who's the trombone behind you?. Send my commiserations to the bass bone playing hard by the tympani - been there, couldn't hear that!
The girl behind him is natania Ngawhau, very good trombonist
That’s me Vet, don’t worry I’m used to playing that position for the last 10 years haha, my hearing left me ages ago
Dude, if you lose any more weight, we're going to have to cast you as James Bond.
I miss playing REAL brass band music. In my band alot of the good musicians have left the band. We have resorted to playing oldschoold pop mucis. Last time I really were happy playing in that band was back in 2019 when we performed Oregon by Jacob de Haan at our countries national and got an overall 8th place
what's with the low horn angles? forgive me for being American, but all the groups I've seen usually have their horns at parallel or 10 degrees above the horizon
How does Matt Stein go as a conductor?? He came over to Aus and played top cornet for my band Feds at the 2019 nationals and I got to play with him at the rose parade in California with the salvo band, but never seen him in front of a band before.
He went well, as was reflected in our results. He’s a good fit for the band.
I might go to a wind band competition in November. The reason for might is because depends how covid will be like then
I hope it wasn’t cancelled and that you did well
@@nyancs7098 it was cancelled, like twice now. its now supposed to be in April
Entety 303 ah that sucks, good luck anyways
@@nyancs7098 we got 89% out of 100.
@@Entety303 is that good? Sounds good!
What are the songs called that were played by the youth band?
Hey Trent, how can I send you a private message please?
From Boston, US.
You can email me: TrentHamiltonNZ@Gmail.com
nice
Oh Trent, someone has to get last, that's why we went wasn't it! Enjoyed your review of the weekend thanks. What's it like playing in a real band.? Kind regards to your extended family.
Oh yes! We played an important part in maintaining the dignity of other bands
Not a left handed conductor!