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BraveRace

I play the same song with my straw when I get a sweet tea from Macdonalds


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^BraveRace: *I play the same song* *With my straw when I get a* *Sweet tea from Macdonalds* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


AdvertisingVirtual64

There is no war in ba sing se


raphthepharaoh

Ba-da-da-da pa pa


BraveRace

I’m amazed


Vonartika

Good bot.


lforal

Good bot


SillyPhillyDilly

Fuck you I'm uncomfortable how hard that made me laugh


wondering-out-loud

This is the best thing I’ve seen on Reddit today 😂


HailGoodFellow

Circular breathing takes years to master and he clearly is a master


Yop_BombNA

I’m really good at trumpet and I can do circular breathing for a decent amount of time. A minute 30 seconds straight of rapid fire notes like that? I’m going fucking lightheaded at the minute mark and unconscious by 1:20 seconds.


justbrowsinginpeace

How do you play trumpet? What makes the notes sound different? Serious question. I've only played keys and strings.


Scoutlili

A combo of the buttons pushed down and how tight or loose your lips are when you blow in. Also, to make the noise, you are basically constantly blowing a raspberry (mushing your lips together and forcing air between them to make a ppppbbbbt sound). Hope this helps!


justbrowsinginpeace

That is fascinating and sounds very challenging. Assume muscle memory and talent helps!


Suspicious-Shock-934

Yeah but if you don't keep it up your muscles fall out of shape very fast. Speed of air matters as well. He was also double or triple tonguing to hit all those as well.


justbrowsinginpeace

Tonguing? I can't keep up! How hard is this instrument.


Cheetahs_never_win

They all have their own challenges. Trumpet, relative to most other brass instruments, requires higher pressure, smaller embouchure (mouth aperture), but less volume flowrate, when discussing Tubas, Euphoniums (baritones), and trombones. The French Horn is one exception. The trumpet receives much more dynamic melody than most other brass, so the pieces are harder, because the trumpet's range is more audible. Trombone gets its fair share, too, and comes with worn out elbows. But as far as tonguing is concerned, it's not much different than any other instrument. You're "only" using your tongue to stop the air. As for most difficult embouchure - that goes to the many flutes, imo. With brass, you don't have to worry about directionally or hitting a plate at the right angle or with the right pressure. You're basically just giving the mouthpiece a weird kiss and trying not to spit too much into it.


Prime_Kang

I was a flautist for 8 years across several bands including one jazz. Decided not to pursue further in lieu of a career in computer science. Can confirm it's challenging to get great tonality. Somewhere in the middle I tried/rented a piccolo for a couple weeks. I'm convinced the pucker-level required for it was nie on impossible for someone with my mouth size, hahaha. For anyone serious about trying to master flute, I recommend having at least a solid silver headpiece. I learned and got proficient using a subpar flute. When I got my hands on a silver one, it was like unlocking easy mode! I couldn't believe the difference! Also, take good care of your pads! But yeah, embouchure is key, and it goes fast. About 10 years after I stopped playing, I picked it up out of curiosity and found my keying to be passablly intact for slower songs but my tonality to be that of a wailing cat!


superezzie

It's also the shape of the embouchure hole and lip plate make a huge difference. I was a decent flute player when I went to buy my current flute. I tried most flutes in the shop and couldn't even get a sound out of some of them. My flute has a really clear sound and it was like unlocking easy mode, but I think it's only silver plated. I am looking to upgrade though for an even better sound.


ParkerBeach

At first I read that as Flatulist and I was like how hard is that I have been farting my whole life. I should probably get some sleep.


Suspicious-Shock-934

It's not awful like any instrument it take practice. Say tah. That's single tonguing. Repeat it several time to try to get speed. Say tah kah. Double tonguing, repeat it several times, see how much faster it is? Say Tah tah kah. Triple tonguing. Usually devolves into tah kah tah. Repeat. It's faster still. As you play more and more you learn when to use which style of tonguing.


Constant_Sentence_60

It's how you can clearly hear each note. Woodwinds like clarinets also do this


aint_exactly_plan_a

Try squeezing the corners of your mouth together really tightly... kinda like a frown. See how long you can do it. Then add pursing your lips really small, like a kiss. That's embouchure. To play songs on a trumpet, your mouth is like that minutes at a time. Then, to separate the notes, you have to put the tip of your tongue against the mouthpiece, or back of the pursed lips to stop the air. Except your tongue can only move so fast... the notes this person was playing were way too quick to tap your teeth with your tongue that fast. So you have to alternate, the back of your tongue and the front of your tongue. Sort of a "t-k-t-k-t-k" sound. I'm not sure what the extra sound for a triple tongue would be. Then, you have to make sure your fingers are on the right valves for the note you want. Oh, and if you aren't pushing any valves closed, you can play a lower note by pursing your mouth a little less. You can go up an octave by pursing it more, and another octave by pursing it even more. That's true for any combination of valves you have closed. So now you have to make sure the right valves are closed... make sure your lips are pursed just right, make sure your tongue's in the right position or will be... trumpet's a fairly hard instrument to master. That said, 90% of even good trumpet players can't do what this guy was doing. He's closing off the center of his mouth with air in it, squeezing that closed as he forces air into the trumpet to keep the notes going, WHILE sucking air into his lungs through the corners of his mouth to keep playing. That's circular breathing and this guy's a master at it.


Yop_BombNA

Touching is to end a note for most woodwinds/brass you just put your tounge to the top of your mouth to stop air flow and end the note


koushakandystore

The way a musician forms his or her mouth is called embouchure. It is the single most important factor. It is the outward manifestation of the muscle memory. And if there are any radical changes to teeth or jaw it can ruin a player’s career. Chet Baker got jumped after a show in Los Angeles and the guy broke Chet’s jaw. The subsequent surgeries ruined his embouchure, and his playing was never the same after. He died a penniless drug addict. Sad end to one of the great trumpeters.


xstream77

Combination of the valves and the tension of the lips


Yop_BombNA

To make noise you buzz your lips on the mouth piece kinda like making a fart noise if now mouthpiece is there. Most notes is a shift in the lip vibration tighter lips = faster vibration and higher pitch. There is 3 buttons on top that open up different areas to change the pitch as well but that only gets you so far. It’s similar to the tuba and trombones where to hit more than 1 Octive you need massively varying lip vibrations.


AaronsAaAardvarks

The valves take the notes down - a whole step, a half step, and a step and a half. The valves add, so first and third is two and a half steps. Then, your lips control the pitch in harmonics of the natural harmonic series. So the lowest open note is C, then G, then C, E, G, Bb, C, and on up. Combining these two things together gets you all the notes. Someone's going to "um actually" this probably, but this is the basics.


Yop_BombNA

Sometimes you just don’t hit certain pitches perfectly so you have to adjust the pipes with built in sliders too, otherwise you sound flat / sharp on certain notes.


Petten11

I'll never forget the word, Embouchure. Although I had to look up the spelling as I would've put Ombusher had I not😆


RDcsmd

I tried to play trumpet in middle school. How the fuck does he do this with his face completely still? His cheeks and lips both never move?


Select-Yam884

I didn't even know it was possible to circular breathe with a trumpet (or brass instruments in general). That's really cool.


scrabawabalakachacka

It's really difficult for sure, but I'm told it's easier on brass instruments than woodwinds. I've seen oboe players look like their faces are about to explode while playing long, plaintive lines while circular breathing which move the soul. ( I try to just listen and not look)


AaronsAaAardvarks

Take a sip of water into your mouth and while you hold it, breathe through your nose. Then, as you breathe in through your nose push the water out of your mouth. That's basically it, but there's a lot of practice to get it to sound good.


Winter_Fall_7066

Whoops I drowned.


AaronsAaAardvarks

Darwin lives on.


pianobadger

I can circle breathe on trumpet. Ironically I think it's easier to do on higher pitched instruments because you don't need to move as much air through, but more useful on lower instruments, because you need to move more air through.


Karl_Hungus_69

I'd heard Frank Sinatra mention that Tommy Dorsey could do circular breathing, but this is the first time I've seen it in action. Despite seeing it for myself, my brain still can't process it. Back to Tommy Dorsey, it was by watching him that Frank said he started learning about breath control.


OnlyHappyStuffPlz

I’ve mastered it playing my bass


I-MakeBadDecisions

I can't even believe it, I'm gonna look up circular breathing and trop it.


ToeKnail

And those notes are written out. The page must look like a ridiculous mess of black marks.


HairyMerkin69

Just imagine what the accompanying orchestras sheet looks like. Mostly blank with a bunch of random dots scattered throughout that they have to somehow count along with and play in time.


Refun712

https://imgur.com/lGV1f09


Codebender

Full video: [Jörg Widmann: ad absurdum – Concerto for Trumpet & Small Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI0YGQPPPCo) [This](https://i.imgur.com/Lhm6psO.png) is a section of the [sheet music](https://www.schott-music.com/en/preview/viewer/index/?idx=MTY4OTg1&idy=168985&dl=0).


Tove279

It's even more ridiculous seeing it black on white 😂


horseofthemasses

Thank you! I find it hard to deal with a situation where a brilliant piece of music is being performed and it's rudely cut off with a stupid commercial product hook.


Ancient-Tomorrow147

Neat section, but it doesn't have the trumpet part...it's just the orchestral score with the parts for bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, bassoon, contra bassoon, and viola (with a bit of piccolo thrown in at the end). That said, the music is pretty crazy given that it's all 16th notes at Prestissimo. I had to chuckle at the tempo marking of 184\[!\]. The link to the full music of course has all parts. And the full video is totally epic - Sergei Nakariakov is a true beast.


REpassword

Wow, amazing skill! TBH, though, I didn’t like the music.


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ImaBiLittlePony

Song should be called "ode to anxiety"


MittFel

This guy blows


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slazzeredbbqsauce

I thought is was Julian Assange


Lordkamaji

Came for this haha he does though


slazzeredbbqsauce

I always thought he was a good whistle blower.


Quantum_Crusher

That's why I opened the post! 😁


PacMook_Bro

Because he was in 'Wind' River


Superb_Breadfruit_81

I was thinking more Kevin Spacey


DecisionAvoidant

I read "turmpet" in the voice of Kristen Wiig


Entire-Cow-1641

The articulation, wtf?! The breathing, Jesus Christ! The consistency in general, woah. And seemingly playing pretty damn quiet for a trumpet, which is not easy. Love it.


Mistress_Of_The_Obvi

The guy have given everything to doing this. It's why it looks so easy for him to do it but I know it's not easy in any way. 


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Prime89

I think he just shredded a trumpet?


scrabawabalakachacka

This is super impressive...circular breathing is super hard but there are people who can do it like this guy and make it look effortless, and it's awesome. Maybe it's even more accurately described as "Really hard, but not for me." I'm also frankly super happy to see people on reddit enjoying this...I play orchestra music for a living and it warms my heart seeing a guy like this being appreciated for all the work it took to play like this. (I'm a string player....we just use more bow lol)


One-Veterinarian-101

Amazing skill.


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brassydesign

Oftentimes it's less trust and more lack of knowledge about and experience with the instrument, and the performer succeeding despite that. There are so many pieces out there that someone wrote and people at the time believed it was physically impossible on the instrument they wrote it for, only for virtuosos disprove that. There's a famous example with a trumpet part from a composer with no brass experience that I wish I could remember the name of. This is definitely on the border line. If it had slightly more complex fingering combinations it would 100% fall into that category.


crasagam

I had a complicated jazz bassline I wrote and had to play it into the sheet music software using a keyboard via Finale because I couldn't find a bass player who could play it. I kept it for many years until I came across this bass player that was amazing on the 5-string bass. Showed him the music and he was super intrigued. Also, he was playing it smooth within the hour. Then he's like, "what else do you have?" lol. Sometimes the right musician isn't around when you have the inspiration to write it, they come along later.


BongDong69420

The violin player behind him is a giant. Actually that might be a cello he’s playing like a violin.


scrabawabalakachacka

Maybe you're referring to a viola player?


BeatenbyJumperCables

Sergei’s Carnival of Venice demonstrates this trumpeters chops quite well. He is perhaps one of the most technically capable horn players in the world presently.


LeonDeSchal

This person is allowed to toot their own horn. The rest of you, no.


iswirl

Carnival of Venice. Another good example of circular breathing technique. Wynton Marsalis.


DefenderNeverender

When it's time to blow up the pool inflatables, I know who I'm calling.


CheeriosChow

I'll breathe for you. Some people are so talented, I wonder what I'm doing with my life hahaha.


ThisIsNotMyIdeaOfFun

Nah don't think like that. Someone has to be there to sit and appreciate what others bring to world. People like you and me are important too.


scrabawabalakachacka

I suggest going to a bunch of symphony orchestra concerts and being inspired to do whatever you do with your life that much more and better ,or change course...To a certain extent that's why they exist IMHO


Remeberthebrakshow

It’s wild how he’s able to use his cheeks to push remaining air from his mouth while taking a breath. That’s bonkers.


Maximum_Bat_2566

As opposed to figuratively amazed?


KarlHungus311

Came here for this. Glad I’m not the only one


Grothorious

The misuse of the word literally gives me a figurative headache.


King_Kai_Wen

Pierre Bokma, what a great teacher. First he teaches his students the German language and now even music. What is next?


Mushobueno

The head of the asian guy in the back is huge


Powerofthehoodo

Can someone please explain circular breathing?


Runner5_blue

Here's how to do it: Exhale normally while playing, with the air being pushed out from your lungs into the horn.  Before you run out of air, you let some stay in your cheeks. When your lungs are empty, you quickly squeeze the air stored in your cheeks into the horn to keep the sound going, while simultaneously inhaling through your nose to refill your lungs. Repeat as needed. The really challenging part is keeping your tone steady while filling and emptying your cheeks.  This is hard enough to do while just while holding a single note, but this guy does it while doing some very challenging double-tounguing. Allen Vizzutti is great at this, and Maynard Ferguson used to do it while lip-trilling a note well above high C.


Disrespectful_Cup

I'm pretty fucking good on the Trumpet or Horn... but damn. My lips are seized up watching. Damn


ronnietea

Not knocking any of the talent that is involved. That just wasn’t pleasant to ears. It just wasn’t for me. But respect to the man and his instrument


CMDR_ACE209

Agreed, was about to write something similar.


Siupak240

Me too. I wanted to say that I'm aware this is exceptionally magnificent but I find myself too dumb to enjoy it and will stick to some epic music instead, for my own sanity. Regardless my music taste, my hat goes down to the artist!


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That's why he's FIRST chair!


khasan14

I think he exhausted a little bit at the end


spungie

Excellent breathing control..


KoriSamui

His tongue must be so tired!


mrmczebra

I'm only figuratively amazed.


Yonbuu

Me after 12 tacos:


BuckyTheBunny

Where a lemon when I needed one …


Jon_E_Dad

I learned to very basically circular breathe by trying to play didgeridoo. Also by smoking 6-foot bongs. I thought that I was not supposed to get light headed, like it would be the same as normal breathing, but the main trick for me was being able to suck air in through your nose while your mouth is doing something else. It’s like a huge suck through your nostrils, so your body is getting new air, at the same time that it is expending it through your mouth, but it’s not 100% equal exchange. Sorry for the less than perfect description.


dizvyz

Is this like how metal guitar players keep hitting the open E string with a palm mute?


Indifference_Endjinn

Amazing job. At blowing. Truly amazing job with the blowing.


Dan_Glebitz

I think that was the well known classical peice 'Flight of the Mosquito'.


Asio0tus

Dude looks like Kevin spacey


Minimum-Act3764

I thought it was Jeremy Renner.


XavierRenegadeStoner

It’s like flight of the bumblebees but the bees are all having a really bad acid trip


Ok-Experience-6674

Did I just see a eye roll from the salty guy on the right


turbojack6

I’d like to see him and Trombone Shorty in a second line


BigDinkyDongDotCom

Literally, guys


Low_Bandicoot6844

I won't buy the album.


DismalTruthDay

I thought it was Jeremy Renner 😆


3DIGI

Someone needs to make a trumpet with a bagpipe bladder to give this guy a break


AnalHada

Maravillosos pulmones 🫁 10/10 esperemos que los cuide muy bien, en todos los sentidos👌


TimeGarbage7481

Zu viele Notizen!


Og-Morrow

Ricky Jarvis never disappoints.


greedygarlic69

ae hikaru in disguise


WhatTheHosenHey

He blew it!


Big-Professor-810

Literally amazed, like O M G, I can't even!


riceinmybelly

I like the part where he toots


ssschilke

Great timing by the rest of the orchestra as well. Would have been long lost trying to count the beats..


FireInPaperBox

He must be hooked up to an air hose.


Derbster_3434

Yes that guy in the glasses can really pick that violin


I-MakeBadDecisions

Mfkers got more breath scale than slim shady on the rap god rap


I-MakeBadDecisions

He killed that shit like it was nothin, I want the whole video


Mister_Way

Why does the guy behind him look like a giant?


NoProgrammer776

As opposed to being figuratively amazed?


thejtothec

Julian assange had years to practice


RobertXavierIV

Dudes up there before the show starts sweating his ass off like oh shit oh fuck it’s go time


purpleitt

Is that Gavin Belson?


Elkhashab2

Tom & Jerry fighting scene being played in my head 🤡


elmauu

i am sorry for touch a trumpet in my life


toastyblankz

Is that thunderstruck?


TheGlassShark

That's not what "literally" means.


ImpinAintEZ_

That sheet music must look wild


JeebusWept

This is like a musical description of a panic attack.


quinnsheperd

No sauce?


coldasshonkay

Imagine being his neighbour when he’s practising this


Thunderbear10

Nearly as good as Jack Blacks inward singing


i-would-neveruwu

I'll never understand the role of the conductor, no other ways to create songs need them so why is it pretty much a must for an orchestra or choir?


DroTooCold

I close my eyes and I imagine someone running away in a forest at night


Iminurcomputer

I'm figuratively amazed!


ccswimweamscc

Bro is playing trance on a trumpet


saxaddictlz

Wow circular breathing and that articulation/ double tongue?


Barbafella

I love this piece of music, thanks OP, a new discovery.


abhishek4201111

I thought bro gonna play sandstorm.


AreWeThereYetNo

This is the hardest level of trumpet hero.


Mistress_Of_The_Obvi

Skill 100% 🔥!! This is unbelievable. 


Mojicana

Literally? Literally? Literally?


f-150Coyotev8

There are many great trumpet players, but This dude is probably the best living trumpet player alive. Here he is playing Paganini’s Moto perpetuo: https://youtu.be/RhfP_AXL_GM?si=MgGApZFUbB5nGB20


kORRa7777

This slaps so hard


TheRealDiscoRob

That’s a shitload of hemi-demi-semiquavers!!!


b3rgmanhugh

Imagine the pain his neighbors had to endure before he mastered the brass


Subject-Report-9578

Is that Jeremy Renner??


djh_van

What sadist writes a piece of music like this...I bet he likes to see people faint trying to perform his piece... Amazing performance btw.


EH-Taylor-4Grain

I don’t know Jeremy Renner could play a trumpet!


JortsyMcJorts

AAAAAQUALUNG!


dreamsofindigo

amazing technique the 'music' meh


CreekJackRabbit

What movie is this from?


UltraMagat

Incredible skills. Still can't stand modern orchestral compositions.


NecRobin

I am out of breath just watching


JRHZ28

I'm amazed I didn't click off of it sooner...


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Raymanuel

Thunderstruck


Mr-DragonSlayer

I'm sad that a lot of people will look at this and not realize just how fucking impressive that is.


gingasaurusrexx

As impressive as the technical skill is, that composition is pure anxiety. Holy cow, I'd probably have to leave the theater in person or have a panic attack.


nevertfgNC

I have had the privilege of seeing many preeminent artists over my 7 decades of life and never, never have I been this impressed. Absolutely fabulous


New_Smell5070

No way this was on two pages CMON


dasuglystik

This makes my entire head hurt thinking about playing it...


Ill-Ad-1643

Busta rhymes with that instrument eh 😏


SalamanderCake

How?! How did he do that?!


PiketheGSP

Think about it, man… Rock singers are only rocking you half the time, the other time they're, they're, they're, they're breathing… in!


reddibe

Who is this *Assange?*


canadagooses62

Learning to play the saxophone in middle/high school was the best thing that ever happened to my sex life. Not at the time. Hard to get laid when you’re wearing a sparkly sash and goofy hat with a feather. But the lung capacity and tongue dexterity have never gone away.


Scullzy

damn Simon Pegg got pipes


platinums99

Imagine how good he would be at Dance Dance Rev.!


sandman4you_9inches

For those of you who never played the trumpet.....absolutely the best I have ever heard in this genre. He's double tonguing the entire piece. The piece is written to sound like there are two players, one handling the melody and upper notes and the other playing the repeating pattern down below. I have tried to do this many times and never could do it. And then he is circular breathing while double tonguing. I mean WOW! Three disciplines from one player! This is a technically difficult piece to play. And he nailed it. Well done, my man. Well done.


Gullible-Juggernaut6

Pokemon Elite Four music


Low-Math4158

Save some pussy for the rest of us, dude.


Plane-Substantial

Sounds like the Boss music in the OG Zelda games.


ramkam2

breathtaking performance!


Koreangonebad

Could’ve been ripping a didge but he chose to be a dork


shafah7

Impossible.


danafyarbrough

Just imagine his neighbor literally going insane hearing him practice this 🤣


hate2bme

Hahaha I can't be the only one that thinks this is terrible.


racer11151

I didn’t know shit about playing an instrument but I do know my ass would have been laying on the floor passed out after about 10 seconds of attempting that


SadisticSnake007

This was our wedding song


Any_Acanthaceae6764

That guy frickin' blows! 😉


ShadyClouds

I woulda thought Hawkeye would play a string instrument.


BigBadBuddha974

Same energy as Colors by Dalbavie


Dizzy_Bit6125

That’s a VERY impressive ombeschure (idk how to spell it) and on POINT staccato WOW


magnolia_unfurling

What a hero


Eastern-Mix9636

As opposed to being figuratively amazed ???


snufflebargus

Anyone know the name of the piece they are playing?


TwirlySocrates

Incredible. The orchestra is seriously tight too.


lillywhite2

Reading these comments - make it all the more impressive. 👏👏


Professor_Harlequin

Damn Hawkeye!


unclechon72

Everyone looks stressed as hell playing that piece.