The greatest circus bandmaster of all time Merle Evans played cornet while he conducted. He would face the show with his back to the band so he could take the tempo from the act working. He would mark the tempo and signal cuts with his left hand. When the band needed a boost in the sound Merle would play. A totally unique sound. Sixty years ago I went to a circus in Grand Rapids Michigan with my family. As we got into hearing range of the band, Mom said " Merles here" . He was.
I actually liked my trumpet (soprano) in the key of G. I was a soprano soloist for a drum corps in the early 1990s for five years and would practice and rehearse on a B-flat Bach Stradivarius trumpet. I would then go to my drum corps rehearsals and play on the G instrument. Most of them (instruments) were in the key of G with two valves. A couple years later we switched to There valves. There was something mythical and mystical about the pitch and range of those horns, plus I was a specialist in the upper register so it certainly made for some beautiful work! Bigger bore, bigger tubing and a beautiful metallic silver finish. Loved those days!!!!
Perspex mouth piece? Interesting... I love your choice of going from the Trumpet to the cornet to the flugel horn and then to a C trumpet because the C trumpet also has a very mellow sound. Then as you go into the higher registers, the mellow follows. Great presentation. Thank you.
Wonderful video. Shows all the sounds. I used to practice the b flat trumpet in our basement. Arban's Book over and over. My trumpet teacher would smash up music stands if you didn't practice.
Heh... And here I was thinking 8-string electric guitars are confusing. :) I've been pondering on adding a trumpet to the instuments I like to practice on you're starting to win me over. :)
Hey, thank you for this amazing video! I wanna learn the trumpet and found a teacher telling me to get a Bb Trumpet but I absolutely loved the sound of a Flugelhorn. If I learn the Bb trumpet, can I in the future just switch to a Flugelhorn and adapt normally or is it a completely different instrument that I’ll have to learn from scratch?
Since nobody has answered this for you - here's the skinny. There is essentially no difficulty in playing one or the other - they use very nearly the same size mouthpiece and fingerings for all of the notes will be the same. Range-wise, it's up to you and your chops, but you typically don't see the flugel playing much above the staff, maybe to high D if you want the Chuck Mangione 'Feels so Good' song. Flugels shine best within the staff and below as they have a dark, mellow sound that is associated with them. The mouthpiece will be more V shaped to allow your lips to relax into the cup. Flugels are never used to be brassy and obnoxious - they are designed to get the girls to melt with your crooning song stylings. Having both is a MUST if you play in a jazz band (and want some solos) or quintet, not so much in concert bands (although British brass bands have a single solo flugel spot). I would avoid a cheap plastic flugelhorn (I have one and can make it sound passable, but it's a lot of work) but there are several good brass ones from China to be had in the $350- $500 range. Much depends on the mouthpiece you get with it or can try out and buy. Don't go for one that helps you get into upper registers - instead, find one that gives you beautiful tone in a freeblowing manner within the staff.
I agree completely with Mike - there’s not much difficulty in switching between the two. I play trumpet in my high school orchestras, jazz bands, chamber quintets etc. but I’m also the Flugelhorn guy when it comes to any ten-piece arrangements or “smooth jazz”. I still start every day on my Bb trumpet, to have a familiar feeling when I warm up, and then I’ll do a little extension warm-up on the flugelhorn if I have to switch. It’s a pleasure to play, and you’ll get the feel for it really quickly and notice where it’s differences lie compared to the trumpet.
Indeed. And this makes it even more astounding to know that Gottfried Reiche himself played this tune on a trumpet nearly four times the tube length without any valves - only using extreme harmonics.
You let your top lip puff out , i classify that with allowing your cheeks to puff out . I don't see how you can have control with a puffed out top lip , but my ears tell me you have worked it out . I played for 10 years through my school years , orchestra , concert band , got straight As , but i never learned a thing about music at school , i think i was used by the teacher to win him accolades . I always took lessons and played in a Kiwanis boys band where i learned something every week . I'm 74 now and grateful for my trumpet playing years . Thanks for this .
What B flat trumpet do you recommend? I am a sophomore looking into buying one soon for college, but i cant seem to make up my mind on what I want. I know it sounds a bit subjective considering that its what i want, but i want an opinion from everyone i know that plays trumpet (my directors)
Just a comment about Cornet is that its used in english style brassband where there are no trumpets. There is typically 8 cornets in Bb and one in Eb (Soprano)
I wish you played the same piece on each instrument. Then after that sample you could play what was in the video to showcase what they are usually used for. Also, you told why there was a fourth valve but I wish you explained how it worked. Still learned a lot from the video though.
I remember playing that and all the music in the Arban's Book downstairs in our basement. I had a trumpet teacher that would smash up music stands if you weren't practicing. He could tell. < laughing>
Thank you fir the video. I started with a $50 cornet, then Dad bought me a$400 Goetzen b flat trumpet. This was around 1972. Please put some polish on that cornet. Chuck Mangioni was a favorite of mine, he would have wanted you to play Feels So Good on your fluglehorn. I played an e flat just a little, and had a rotary bugle in drum corps. Other than those, i had never seen the others before today, so again, thank you.
kind of late in asking but why wasn't the bass trumpet mentioned and what is its roll in bands if any or is if it's just a novelty instrument now a days.
Perhaps a smidgen more in the trivia department might be in order. I, for one, am curious: by how much does the 4th valve lower the relative tone? You mentioned that via that 4th valve the E flat horn can mimic the B flat - which implies a simple fourth (2.5 steps)?
It's the same as 1+3. If for some reason, you want to use the Eb Trumpet to play Bb Trumpet music (pretty trivial, tbh), you can use the 4th valve to reach the notes below B natural.
+Nick Haupt Before changing a trumpet, I recommend looking into different mouthpieces. Try something with a deeper cup to get a warmer/darker sound. Several custom makers make a "flugelhorn-trumpet mouthpiece" that is basically a flugelhorn cup on a trumpet shank. It creates a beautiful, buttery sound--all for less than $200!!
No bass Trumpet? I mean i realize that usually gets played by trombonists, but... Also, pic parts are more and more common in wind ensemble literature ive noticed with the grouo inplay with...
Pocket trumpets have the same tube length as a normal trumpet of the same key. Due to the more coiled up construction and smaller bell they sound somewhat mellower.
"We" in the 5th, 6th grade, who apparently get to try out instruments and even "beginner band"... are very lucky: They are part of some kind of community, it appears.
The greatest circus bandmaster of all time Merle Evans played cornet while he conducted. He would face the show with his back to the band so he could take the tempo from the act working. He would mark the tempo and signal cuts with his left hand. When the band needed a boost in the sound Merle would play. A totally unique sound. Sixty years ago I went to a circus in Grand Rapids Michigan with my family. As we got into hearing range of the band, Mom said " Merles here" . He was.
Should have mentioned the rotary valve trumpets; very commonly used in symphony orchestras in Europe .
And the better trumpets for symphonic music🤷🏽♂️
@@serendrixsan9191 Why are they better?
4:38 trumpet third valve slide is hanging on for dear life
Thank you for a well made video with actual in-action demonstrations.
I actually liked my trumpet (soprano) in the key of G. I was a soprano soloist for a drum corps in the early 1990s for five years and would practice and rehearse on a B-flat Bach Stradivarius trumpet. I would then go to my drum corps rehearsals and play on the G instrument. Most of them (instruments) were in the key of G with two valves. A couple years later we switched to There valves. There was something mythical and mystical about the pitch and range of those horns, plus I was a specialist in the upper register so it certainly made for some beautiful work! Bigger bore, bigger tubing and a beautiful metallic silver finish. Loved those days!!!!
This guy is a skilled trumpet player showing proficiency in the different types of horns, all of which play differently.
I played coronet in the beginning then moved "up" to the trumpet. But, now in my opinion; the coronet offers the most pleasing sound.
All that was missing was the piccolo trumpet solo from The Beatles Penny Lane. I am sure that Brian would knock that outta the park too.
3RTracing all that was missing was half of his pinkie
What he played demonstrates the sound way better
I loved this!! 😍😍 Now I remember why I play the trumpet♥️♥️
You play very well! And magnific trumpets.
Perspex mouth piece? Interesting... I love your choice of going from the Trumpet to the cornet to the flugel horn and then to a C trumpet because the C trumpet also has a very mellow sound. Then as you go into the higher registers, the mellow follows. Great presentation. Thank you.
That was really neat and informative.
those mouthpieces look so cool
Wonderful video. Shows all the sounds. I used to practice the b flat trumpet in our basement. Arban's Book over and over. My trumpet teacher would smash up music stands if you didn't practice.
Nice explanation and demonstration.
Heh... And here I was thinking 8-string electric guitars are confusing. :)
I've been pondering on adding a trumpet to the instuments I like to practice on you're starting to win me over. :)
awesome, very explanatory, thank you!!
Mizzorski's pictures at an exhibition was the main peice of my marching show lol
You're a keeper, doc!
It would have been really cool to show the trumpets on the other side of the Bb. For example, I own an Alto Trumpet in F
I love your sound. 👏
Hey, thank you for this amazing video!
I wanna learn the trumpet and found a teacher telling me to get a Bb Trumpet but I absolutely loved the sound of a Flugelhorn.
If I learn the Bb trumpet, can I in the future just switch to a Flugelhorn and adapt normally or is it a completely different instrument that I’ll have to learn from scratch?
Since nobody has answered this for you - here's the skinny. There is essentially no difficulty in playing one or the other - they use very nearly the same size mouthpiece and fingerings for all of the notes will be the same. Range-wise, it's up to you and your chops, but you typically don't see the flugel playing much above the staff, maybe to high D if you want the Chuck Mangione 'Feels so Good' song. Flugels shine best within the staff and below as they have a dark, mellow sound that is associated with them. The mouthpiece will be more V shaped to allow your lips to relax into the cup. Flugels are never used to be brassy and obnoxious - they are designed to get the girls to melt with your crooning song stylings. Having both is a MUST if you play in a jazz band (and want some solos) or quintet, not so much in concert bands (although British brass bands have a single solo flugel spot). I would avoid a cheap plastic flugelhorn (I have one and can make it sound passable, but it's a lot of work) but there are several good brass ones from China to be had in the $350- $500 range. Much depends on the mouthpiece you get with it or can try out and buy. Don't go for one that helps you get into upper registers - instead, find one that gives you beautiful tone in a freeblowing manner within the staff.
I agree completely with Mike - there’s not much difficulty in switching between the two. I play trumpet in my high school orchestras, jazz bands, chamber quintets etc. but I’m also the Flugelhorn guy when it comes to any ten-piece arrangements or “smooth jazz”. I still start every day on my Bb trumpet, to have a familiar feeling when I warm up, and then I’ll do a little extension warm-up on the flugelhorn if I have to switch. It’s a pleasure to play, and you’ll get the feel for it really quickly and notice where it’s differences lie compared to the trumpet.
9:30 yeah man
Indeed. And this makes it even more astounding to know that Gottfried Reiche himself played this tune on a trumpet nearly four times the tube length without any valves - only using extreme harmonics.
Wait are u the bobby harrison that played on austrailias got talent?
Ooh man what a demo! You must have bull chops! 🎺👏👏👏👏👏👏
You let your top lip puff out , i classify that with allowing your cheeks to puff out . I don't see how you can have control with a puffed out top lip ,
but my ears tell me you have worked it out . I played for 10 years through my school years , orchestra , concert band , got straight As , but i never
learned a thing about music at school , i think i was used by the teacher to win him accolades . I always took lessons and played in a Kiwanis boys band
where i learned something every week . I'm 74 now and grateful for my trumpet playing years . Thanks for this .
Welcome to CBS Sunday morning 9:20
Was bummed to not see a bugle in 'G'. Nicely done though!
I wish you played the same piece on each.
5:06 this song was featured in Animusic 2's "Cathedral Pictures"
my friend always plays that second song before/after class. same with the song he played with the c trumpet.
I heard the Sunday morning themes song oml
What B flat trumpet do you recommend? I am a sophomore looking into buying one soon for college, but i cant seem to make up my mind on what I want. I know it sounds a bit subjective considering that its what i want, but i want an opinion from everyone i know that plays trumpet (my directors)
Like McNab, David Kuehn - retired principal of the Buffalo Philharmonic also used a four valve Eb as "home base."
Indeed!
I love all types of trumpets
Cornet is also used in Salvation army bands.
Just a comment about Cornet is that its used in english style brassband where there are no trumpets. There is typically 8 cornets in Bb and one in Eb (Soprano)
I wish you played the same piece on each instrument. Then after that sample you could play what was in the video to showcase what they are usually used for.
Also, you told why there was a fourth valve but I wish you explained how it worked. Still learned a lot from the video though.
The fourth valve is typically used for lower notes and alternate fingerings. It's not that exciting, really...
Demonstration of various horns? thanks for sharing!
Nice to see the use of Hindemith's Trumpet Sonate. FYI; pronounced hind-uh-mit.
Great presentation thanks Doc
Great comparison!
Currently working on Arban's Carnival of Venice. Tricky solo, but very fun.
I remember playing that and all the music in the Arban's Book downstairs in our basement. I had a trumpet teacher that would smash up music stands if you weren't practicing. He could tell. < laughing>
Interesting! Thank you!
you are very good!
Does anybody else miss the bass trumpet in this range?
amazing!!!
Thank you fir the video. I started with a $50 cornet, then Dad bought me a$400 Goetzen b flat trumpet. This was around 1972. Please put some polish on that cornet. Chuck Mangioni was a favorite of mine, he would have wanted you to play Feels So Good on your fluglehorn. I played an e flat just a little, and had a rotary bugle in drum corps. Other than those, i had never seen the others before today, so again, thank you.
kind of late in asking but why wasn't the bass trumpet mentioned and what is its roll in bands if any or is if it's just a novelty instrument now a days.
Thank you!
and wat is with the german trumpet with rotary valves?
Perhaps a smidgen more in the trivia department might be in order. I, for one, am curious: by how much does the 4th valve lower the relative tone? You mentioned that via that 4th valve the E flat horn can mimic the B flat - which implies a simple fourth (2.5 steps)?
It's the same as 1+3. If for some reason, you want to use the Eb Trumpet to play Bb Trumpet music (pretty trivial, tbh), you can use the 4th valve to reach the notes below B natural.
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Is that mouthpiece clear? It looks cool:)
Excelente vídeo.
i know its not considered a trumpet but what about the Soprano Bugles from drum corps?
where's the bass trumpet at though
The last song is the song that CBS News Sunday Morning uses, I was wondering why I recognized it
what brand and model of B flat trumpet do you recommend for a dark jazzy sound?
+Nick Haupt Before changing a trumpet, I recommend looking into different mouthpieces. Try something with a deeper cup to get a warmer/darker sound. Several custom makers make a "flugelhorn-trumpet mouthpiece" that is basically a flugelhorn cup on a trumpet shank. It creates a beautiful, buttery sound--all for less than $200!!
+Trumpet Master Classes with Dr. Brian Shook ok thank you!!
Also a Bass trumpet and slide trumpet...
fluegelhorn used in all german austrian swiss music
9:20 welcome to CBS Sunday morning
what is the name of the piece when you played the fugle horn
No bass Trumpet? I mean i realize that usually gets played by trombonists, but...
Also, pic parts are more and more common in wind ensemble literature ive noticed with the grouo inplay with...
What mouthpiece do you use?
Because I don't know but it looks like somewhat of a plastic mouthpiece.
Metallic X It is from Pickett Brass
It's pickett brass. I reognised the backbore shape
And Pickett promarily makes 2 peice mothpeices and they have an acrylic option
It's a pickett brass two piece
Eb cornet or soprano cornet?
Elijah Wood's brother?
What about the pocket trumpets? Are they the same as piccolo trumpets?
Pocket trumpets have the same tube length as a normal trumpet of the same key. Due to the more coiled up construction and smaller bell they sound somewhat mellower.
Very nice
What about the rotary trumpet
Why do you prefer the acrylic mouthpieces?
They aren't as "slippery" as silver/gold mouthpieces, plus they never change temperature.
I didn’t know if it was because of an allergy. Thanks for the reply!
Guys, which kind do you play? I play Bb trumpet!
No pocket trumpet?
Needed Bass Trumpet and Rotary
"We" in the 5th, 6th grade, who apparently get to try out instruments and even "beginner band"... are very lucky: They are part of some kind of community, it appears.
yeah I am in the same place
In 5th grade I was playing the recorder lol but we started playing actual instruments in 6th grade
I always thought Flugelhorns were pitched in F...
Flugelhorns are pitched in Bb! However F-Altos are in F and have somewhat similar sound characteristics IMO
No bass trumpet?
que grande slim shady
You forgot the baroque trumpet.
POCKET TRUMPET
Hey! I know you. Wassup Brian?
Hey!
Where is the Bass Trumpet?!
In the case...where it always is.
@@TrumpetMasterClasseswithDrBria :O
Hi Gru
The D is short than the C
Not so much in orchestra...?!?