that one kid that's good at everything: 

His trombone has an f-attachment, which is usually used to partially close the gap that exists in the low range of the instrument and to eliminate the need for the two farthest slide positions. However, in the high range, it can almost entirely eliminate the need for the slide in general, as long as you’re ok with being a bit out of tune.

I didn't understand either, how is that even possible?

Almost all the notes he was playing can be done in the 1st position once he goes above the first F above the staff, although you do have to very good with adjusting your embouchure to flatten/sharpen the note so you hit the proper note and like the other guy said, he has an f attachment so that means he is effectively using 2 slide positions(generally the 6th position is the other assuming it is tuned to the standard position although for what he did here I bet he had it tuned in a way that made this easier, likely a bit flat) making him able to properly hit a lot more notes with alternate positions and a very good embouchure. Also some of those note he is just playing them close enough and fast enough that it sounds like he hit them. But then again maybe he is that good, but don’t recall seeing this guy play anything else on trombone.

Yeah…….I just play trumpet

if your high enough it doesnt really matter where you stick your slide. C and Bb are in position 1 at the currect interval.

This comment almost killed me

Dana Colley

@@gabe_ed Brass akimbo.

Gunhild Carling

You have to invest enough points in having massive balls to unlock that talent option.

Underrated comment

This is one of the greatest musician insider meme I've ever seen 🤣

LMAO

0:26 center is probably the best one

They all look so bored

They kinda looked like haters until he started wailing high notes on the trumpet 😂

wtf u talking about cluesless peons, they litterally dont care

I think every musician in these videos are kinda dead inside, especially the background ones

Why not 0:36 or 0:40?

@@xavierharris9749 lol they never said those weren’t

squeaky clean

wish i could do that lol

As someone who used to play trumpet, let me just say being able to do that is more impressive than running a marathon, and this man must have titanium jaws

I once saw Jim and Bill Watrous playing a stage together. the battle was furious and glorious and etched in to my brain forever.

it's not the same octave its in bass clef

@@lollololololololololol8116 but the sound was the same octave. He still managed to play just as high with his trombone

Highest I can go on tenor trombone is a D on the fourth line of the treble clef staff. Never really had to play that high though. Comfortable range goes to the Bb slightly below it, after that point it starts to get a bit ridiculous lmao. I can try though :)

I loved that look he gave, like "Nah.....well...actually....."

Having played a lot of trombone in my life I can assure you that you can't. This man's technique is so good you almost don't realize how incredibly hard that is to pull off even without switching between trumpet and trombone. Sure an F trigger gives you a lot of flexibility, but his control is next level. One does not simply play false and partial notes so cleanly that they sound exactly like a regular note.

@@s01itarygaming Yeah, it's astounding how clean those are, and at SPEED too. The trumpet version is hard enough (with access to valves), but the trombone version is unlike anything I've ever seen.

​@@s01itarygaming not just the F trigger, the partials in the upper register are so close that with the trigger you can play almost get to any note you want on the top ranges.

That man has a very happy wife I'd say.

@@yq0706 regardless of which techniques he is in fact using, it takes quite a bit of control and practice to get that consistently clean.

I think it was the 2019 International Jazz Day opener in Melbourne where I first heard William Barton play jazz on his didgeridoo (with James) and the two of them together were just amazing

Wycliffe Gordon is my favorite trombonist

He probably could to be fair

Well he played them separately

@@CornOnThe_Cob fair, but my comment was in jest

Fair enough

No one said that

Especially that band!

Sounds like the man is as impressive as the music. A great ambassador for Australia and for jazz and no doubt a treasured experience for you!

Apparently, he isn't as humble as you are...still talking about something you did long ago as a kid 🤣

@@joeschmoe6516 Have you always been an idiot?

@@joeschmoe6516 shut up bro😂

Are you from Ballarat? If not I guess he played with schools a lot which is cool. Memorable experience for me too.

(I've copy pasted my own reply to another comment) He's on a really high partial in the harmonic series so the notes are pretty close to each other. Plus, the trombone has a F trigger (look at his left thumb), so that gives you a whole new set of partials. You can play a surprising amount of notes with that. I don't think I need to explain how hard this is to do.

@@amj.composer Never heard of an 'F-trigger' but it makes a lot of sense. So maybe he's just REALLY good, and not some kind of wizard like I suspected originally.

@@zack4president F trigger is just a valve that adds tubing to the trombone, dropping its pitch by a perfect 4th (so it's in the key of F). Also James Morrison is basically a wizard, honestly.

@@amj.composer I get it

One thought going through the collective mind, “I need to practise more…” 😢

You can only play like this if you go super high and are super skilled, so… kind of

since it's so high in the range, all the harmonics are super close together, and he's also using the trigger a LOT which gives even more notes to play with (see 0:24). also you can lip tune to bend the pitch a fair amount too, tho id be impressed if he was doing that so quickly.

Very close partials and trigger

Trigger is a beautiful thing

I did not know that trombones had a trigger. Thanks!

@@JoshuaHeckathorn Real ones don't!

@@mattgiantmusic Woosh

@@mattgiantmusic You're either a non-native English speaker or you're just really new to the internet

@@amj.composer 😂😂😂

@@mattgiantmusic His comment was a joke and "woosh" is something you say when someone, in this case you, completely misses it.

@@mattgiantmusic Guess the Dutch have as little humor as the German. Yikes.

Likewise, what a talent. And his jazz piano was good too!

The mouth piece size of a trombone makes that somewhat difficult, but not impossible (and different shapes could make it easier as well). Two trumpets is certainly viable!

Trumpet Master Race

Better than ginger soup and chicken ale.