How do trumpets make that bbbbrrrrrrr sound?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Did you know that trumpets are the oldest brass instruments? Orchestras rely on them to play the highest notes in the brass section! But how do they make that bbbbrrrrrrr sound? We asked trumpet player and teacher Jim Boyle to help us find the answer. Got a question you’ve been wanting to brass-k? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll find an answer that’s music to your ears. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.5	Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,
0:07.9	moment of drum comes to you from APM studios, and I'm, you guessed it, a drum.
0:19.9	Um.
0:30.6	I'm a percussion instrument, which means when someone strikes me with a drumstick, special drum mallet, or their hand, I make sounds like this. And this.
0:32.6	And even this.
0:35.6	Although I guess you could use lots of things.
0:39.0	A pencil or a hockey stick.
0:42.6	Or a dog bone.
0:46.0	Or even.
0:51.5	Enough already, my guy.
0:53.7	What's up, listeners?
0:54.9	Welcome to the moment of strum.
0:57.4	I'm a guitar.
0:58.6	I make sounds like this.
1:01.3	And this.
1:04.3	When someone strums my strings,
1:06.6	the sound changes depending on the position of the player's hand,
1:09.7	which makes different chords. What on the position of the player's hand, which makes different chords.
1:11.6	What about the moment of...
1:13.6	Oh, oh, or maybe...
1:18.6	Who said that?
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