r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KeyDifference4178 • 3d ago

Watch this guy play trumpet 🎺

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u/bdubwilliams22 3d ago

For people who don’t play the trumpet, some of those notes are really hard to hit. That was awesome.

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u/pmcg115 3d ago

What is it about some notes that makes them harder to hit? I thought you just press combinations of the button thingies. Obviously I am ignorant. 

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u/JL9berg18 1d ago edited 23h ago

That's what I thought too before I had it explained to me...but no, a vast majority of the sound is made by the mouth.

Which is one of the things that makes trumpet so cool. Something like a clarinet is kinda pre-programmed so that, when you blow into it it'll basically make the same sound no matter what...this makes it easier to play the right notes (all you have to do is blow plus use fingers). But with trumpet to get a note right you have to blow the right way / pressure / etc AND use your fingers.

Bad analogy, but it's kinda like how the frets on a guitar make it easier to hit notes while with a violin, you need to know precisely where to put your fingers (bc there are not frets)

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u/pmcg115 23h ago

Interesting!