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There hasn’t been too much going on with the trumpet chronicling lately. \u00a0<\/p>\nThere hasn’t been too much going on with the trumpet chronicling lately. \u00a0<\/p>\n
We started community band practice again. \u00a0Tonight is the 2nd practice of the year.<\/p>\n
I have been using my friend Donnie’s Denis Wick mouthpiece, and I’m getting used to it. \u00a0The rim is larger in diameter than the Yamaha 14B4 mouthpiece I was using. \u00a0It has a shallower cup, and a larger throat (I think that’s the name of the hole in the mouthpiece at the bottom of the cup).<\/p>\n
I’m also learning it’s better to skip measure or two that are proving to be a technical challenge to avoid a\u00a0dirty look from the lead trumpet player. \u00a0I make note of those passages and practice them at home.<\/p>\n
Speaking of trumpet players, there is a very good YouTube video from the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band, called “Backrow Politics”, which features the four trumpet players, Bob Saunders, Wayne Bergeron,\u00a0Willie Murillo, and Dan Savant. \u00a0It’s worth a look.<\/p>\n
[embedyt] http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dVCeiaxTZA[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n
If you have some time you want to kill, YouTube is a great place to do so… it’s a black hole similar to Pinterest.<\/p>\n
I was looking up video of someone playing a contrabass trombone<\/a>, which led me to the cimbasso<\/a>, and from there into some of the more “unusual<\/a>” instruments that exist. \u00a0For example, there is a tuba called the “titanic tuba” that is supposed to be the biggest one in the world<\/a>\u00a0(you can hear someone try to play it from the linked video). \u00a0Then I somehow ended up listening to someone playing a subcontrabass flute<\/a>. \u00a0Fascinating (but you have to do the Spock eyebrow). \u00a0 I listened to James Morrison (a superb Aussie trumpet player) “auditioning” for the Big Phat Band on another version of “Backrow Politics”<\/a>, which then led me to Wayne Bergeron playing Maynard Ferguson’s arrangement of “MacArthur Park”<\/a>. \u00a0Whew. \u00a0From there, I delved into someone playing a Tiger brand plastic trombone and tuba<\/a>. \u00a0Next it was\u00a0the Canadian Brass playing “Flight of the Bumblebee”<\/a>. \u00a0 Then it was an epic cover of the theme to “The Game of Thrones” by a low brass ensemble<\/a>. \u00a0I’m not familiar with this music, but if you’re a “heavy metal” (tuba) fan, you definitely should watch this one. \u00a0Next I watched\u00a0some guy named Oren Marshall playing Bach’s “Badinerie from the Orchestral Suite No 2 in B Minor<\/a>” on the weirdest looking tuba I have ever seen. \u00a0It kind of resembles the shape of a saxophone, best I could tell. \u00a0I assume it was a custom build. \u00a0Finally, I wrapped up by watching Jon Sass\u00a0performing his composition “Meltdown” with members of UNITUBA and guests from the University of Iowa tuba studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bam! \u00a0Three hours wasted… just like that. \u00a0And I didn’t even list the cat videos<\/a>, or the one of the P-51 Mustang startup and fly-by<\/a>, or even this amazing drum line video by the Top Secret Drum Corps of Basel<\/a>, or Antoine Dufour<\/a>\u00a0or Lindsay Sterling<\/a>\u00a0or chainsaw ice racing<\/a>\u00a0or the twin turbo 60s GMC pickup truck<\/a>\u00a0or 5000 ducklings<\/a>\u00a0(loudspeaker) ALRIGHT MR. IRWIN, PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!!!!” \u00a0No, wait, I have LOTS, LOTS, more videos…. like Overture In B Flat<\/a>\u00a0and English Folk Song Suite<\/a>\u00a0and … Alright, Bill, hit ’em with the taser!!” \u00a0 BRRRRRZZZAAAAPP \u00a0(flop flop flop…..) \u00a0ARRRGGHHHH!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There hasn’t been too much going on with the trumpet chronicling lately. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[42,125,130,128,45,133,115,120,121,126,131,123,36,43,41,127,124,129,18,122,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}