Carnival of Venice

Brian, woke up a Sunday morning and during coffee this popped up on the Tube. Absolutely loved it: the theatrics were hysterical, the solid technical control of Arbans, Bravo!

Yeah this is good stuff! You should check out the performance by Håkan Bjørkman, which is just unreal...

Incredible. Almost humanly impossible...From an old trombonist.

wow. that was amazing.

that was reallly good. to bad he bumbed the last note, killer

@taylorswiftrockmysox On trombone???

@taylorswiftrockmysox So you were not around. Do you have proof? A video? I do not mean to insult, but that is a pretty hard piece. I was a top bone in high school and college and it damn near wasted me!

@taylorswiftrockmysox I believe you. She is truly amazing. Do you play music? I hope you skipped trombone, because it would be very hard for you to walk in her shoes. By the way, tell her I said so.

@taylorswiftrockmysox Good luck with that. But don't be disappointed if you can't play Carnival of Venice. If you were to follow along with the sheet music, you would see that even though this was a good performance, there were many notes that he glossed over.

@taylorswiftrockmysox OMG! You are a girl! Forgive me, but in my day that was unthinkable. In every band I played in, Jr High, Sr High, Wake Forest University, DC Community Orchestra, I had never played alongside a female on trombone. I'm glad I did not meet your mom, because if she had been better than me (and it sounds like she was), I would have quit! Times have changed now though.

@taylorswiftrockmysox You just brought back a flood of bad memories. My senior year I walked into class to find out they had given my first chair position to...a freshman! I threw a fit and walked out. The rector said the only option I had was to take another class, which was out of the question. The band director came up with a solution. We would both play prepared pieces that she would judge. I chose one from Arban, but I did not dare try Carnival.

@taylorswiftrockmysox She declared the contest a tie and we rotated first chair every week. I do not think that if it had been your mom I would have had a problem with it, since she was clearly better than me. But I really gave that frosh a hard time. Wish I could find him today and apologize.

This song was so not meant for trombone....

@TheAppDeveloper hey dumbshit this song was literally made for trombone

@SnowballSamples no it actually wasnt. Arban was Jean-Baptiste Arban was a cornet player, and he wrote this piece for trumpet. You will find it in the Arban complete method book for euphonium and trombone, because the book itself was transcribed from trumpet, to trombone.

We know that at least one person is a jealous trumpet player.

@TheAppDeveloper Your right; it was meant for cornet. But, it should be played on trombone because it is twice as difficult since there are no valves. It shows great skill.

lol..he keeps spraying his slide ....whata boss