Honestly, the most impressive part is having the confidence to go for those notes in front of 50000 people (guesstimating), he just knew he was gonna hit those notes.
I'm a casual listener and you'd have to be an idiot to either not notice how hard this guy is working and how difficult of a performance this must be, or to think that only an expert could recognize the difficulty.
I saw the Blue Devils perform in a drum and bugle corps competition in Denver many years ago. One of their trumpet soloists hit a very high note like this, with no mic, and it definitely still filled the whole stadium. Insane stuff
The trumpet actually sounds better up that high than it normally does. It seems to take on a different personality. It sounds almost like a synthesizer.
The last few seconds especially, it took on such an ethereal incredible otherworldly tone, especially with the echoes going on in the background and reverb. That little pitch bend up He did a few notes before the end, the way that blended in with the reverb and everything, and without clean it sounded, it definitely sounded more like something you expect from a synthesizer, which makes it all the more impressive
Trust me, that good sound is completely him. It’s “easy” to squeak those high notes out but they will sound horrible if you don’t have air and technique behind it. This man is blessed. And worked hard.
As a trumpet player, this is a perfect way to unalive oneself 💀🙂The fact that he didn't pass out after, makes this even more madly impressive than it already is!😭
@@IndianOutlaw1870people say that because social media sites often remove comments for saying words to suicide or murder. At least that's how it started.
To a regular person, he just played the trumpet really high. Big deal. To a person that's musically inclined, you're attempting to pick your jaw up off the ground.
@Siad 747 the point is that people who don't know anything about playing an instrument would think that what he did was easy. I had to argue that point a lot to idiots in high school that tried to tell me band was pointless.
Musically inclined? you mean "know how shitty the trumped is" I mean, this really is a big deal but it SHOULDN'T be. You can't be offended that people take it for granted that someone who can play an instrument can play a simple piece. It's just a terrible solo instrument.
if youre good enough this ties the highest clarinet note, still extremely damn impressive for a trumpet i myself cant play that high but relatively i can on my bass clarinet, which kinda counts
Eh, max range are more like guidelines if you're good enough. Pretty sure I've seen fingerings for A7 on the Clarinet. Even a scrub like me can hit the low end of the altissimo register.
I played trumpet for 9 years and I thought I was quite talented. I have never heard of this man till this day and I am ashamed of that! I got one of the craziest goosebumps in my life watching this... My jaw dropped and I got tears in my eyes... This level is very FAR beyond "one in a million". He truly is a god of trumpet. What did I just hear...
I started trumpet 12 years ago and have cleft lip so it was super hard to learn and get good at , met this in person and he was genuinely happy to see a kid with a cleft lip playing trumpet . Seen him on this video when it first came out and still till this day and forever will always give me goosebumps and make me tear up. A God on the trumpet and the reason i got so motivated to get good despite the challenges i faced
As a flute player, I am extremely impressed with being able to play those high notes. I can confirm that flute players do play notes that high, but to play those notes on trumpet is outstanding. Also the fact that he did it in front of that audience on live television! Incredible!
+1. As a former trumpet player in grade school (many moons ago!) that guy's lungs are so powerful, he could inflate the Goodyear blimp with a straw, and not even break a sweat! Hats-off impressive!!
@@StaySqueezy12 Not every performance gets people looking around very obviously thinking "omg when is this gonna end?" Many, many people automatically think some music sucks just because it doesn't have vocals or uses orchestral instruments. That was clearly happening at the beginning on a massive scale.
I mean, while yes I agree that this was very technically impressive, I didn't really find it very interesting to listen to. There's no accompaniment, and there was no real reason for him to play that high other than just to show off. And for people that don't really enjoy show offs, it's honestly kinda boring.
Adam Rapa also does an amazing job on this, too. He plays it in trumpet F and it doesn’t go as high, but it’s really beautiful. It takes so much work to play a tune this well solo, and Arturo is one of the best!
It's whats so magical about him, Ive gotten up to the F/F# below the high note, but the tone control and seemingly ease he has to get there is truly amazing
@esp ele Not everyone can have that tone, so no, you're wrong. The sound we hear is from the trumpet, but how that tone comes out of it is all the man. Don't discredit real skill. I would also appreciate it if you stop talking to people in such as condescending way. It's ignorant when you yourself have no idea what you're talking about. And seriously? "Stop flattering yourself?" Like it's some privilege to be talked about by the great and mighty "esp ele."
My ice skating hero told me that, too. He redeemed himself, had wings, looked like the Dwayne Johnson, pulled my teeth out. Might have fallen asleep watching "The Tooth Fairy" come to think of it. Then Lady Gaga took a shit on my chest. Yeah, prolly a dream..
At that point fingerings really don't matter and it's all embouchure. That man has amazing control of his face muscles. I would have gone beet-red and passed out...
Awesome. No idea why this popped up into my feed but I love it. My favorite part? The audience knew what a badass performance they'd just enjoyed and started cheering well before the end.
I am genuinely impressed by this guy. I'm shocked nobody has pointed out how the scale pattern in quints sounds like midi just due to how cleanly it was played. It's damn mpressive.
My first thought when I heard it. Before moving on, I went back and listened to that three times and just followed the notes with my finger as he played and my jaw just dropped lol
It's not just that it's so high, it's that it's so consistent too. It's not too hard to squeeze a few ledger lines off the stave, but to hold it, and to make it sound nice, and to do all that under the pressure of performing in front of an entire stadium a song that nearly every single one of them know off by heart, THATS what makes this so incredible to me.
and it was at the Orange Bowl too, a huge crowd. after playing trumpet for almost his whole life, winning first in area, then district, then state, and qualifying for nationals in PA, and then getting a masters in trumpet performance, the highest note my dad could hit was this one, a double high c, but he could never keep it going for that long, not in a million years. it's insane.
The fact that this man, a Grammy winning jazz musician, took what looked like the largest breath of his entire life to play those high notes should tell you how incredibly hard this is. That is the best trumpeting i have ever heard.
Not just that, but he needs to hit those notes perfectly or not hit them at all. Can you imagine how much pressure this is and how confident he must be in his abilities to absolutely nail it?! Astounding!
@@chrismullaney9042 Agreed. I'd also add you should check out James Morrison from down in Australia. He is a high note trumpeter, but down in the mid and lower registers has tremendous tone and expression. I think he's the top virtuoso trumpeter currently gigging. And he can also play both the trumpet and piano at the same time, something I've never seen anyone else do on stage.
I think anyone would be. You don't have to be a musician to know thats not normal for a trumpet, and you can kinda see the pain on his face lol but yeah as a former trombonist its extremely impressive
@@AdvosArt of course it's impressive to anyone. but it's hard to grasp and scale just how hard it is to pull off what he did unless you have done some winds instrument
Flutes can technically go an octave higher with special fingerings. But that doesn't diminish the fact that that's friken high and extremely impressive.
Stunning. I played the trumpet for 14 years and had no idea it could hit notes that high. Even with specialized mouth pieces designed to increase pitch range, I would not have believed that was possible if I hadn't just heard it.
I hate to say this, because I don’t mean to sound like I’m correcting you and his performance is insanely damn impressive, but it’s actually in concert Bb. trumpet music is written a whole step higher than concert pitch, so while the music is written in C, he’s playing in Bb… as a trombonist and pianist I’ve always hated how instruments are in different keys like that.
@@willkinney5051 Thanks for saying something. I completely forgot about transposition when writing the comment. It just blew me away so much that I apparently lost my basic music theory knowledge.
@@potetew4510 no worries! It's a stupid thing about instruments imo. When I used to arrange for fun, it drove me crazy trying to figure out who calls what note what name lol
If you've never played an instrument like that before, here: Imagine a Usain Bolt is running the 100 m dash and just starts sprinting upwards into the sky halfway without missing a step. Or a painter is painting your portrait and starts using ultraviolet colors and somehow you can see them. This goes from "That's a crazy run!" to "What am I watching?!" really fast. My lips hurt for him. Brilliant.
@@kyupin1075 because you usually buzz your lips and blow at the same time to play a note (i play the trombone and trumpets have a smaller mouthpiece so its even harder) and trumpets only have three different buttons, which will satisfy the requirements for some notes but for higher notes that the three buttons wont get you you need to put your lips closer together and use more force to blow (kinda like pushing out poop when youre constipated and the higher you get the harder you push) and those note are REALLY REALLY high for a trumpet which means usually a person would have gone purple doing what he did, or just not be able to reach those notes conpletely. Or pass out. So the fact that he managed those notes with a fair amount of ease(? And even then some of the notes he found difficult so you know normal mortals can’t manage those) is really amazing. Like the commenter said. Usain bolt running brilliantly then suddenly running into the sky without missing a step.
@@kyupin1075 Playing brass is very physical. To play louder/in a more extreme range it takes both physical strength as well as technique. To play like he did here takes an enormous amount of talent and hard work. Think of it as comparable to Freddie Mercury showing off his vocal range while still maintaining power and sounding artistic.
I believe that the crazy part about his talent and skill is the fact that he played that c loudly and he was still able to play afterwards! Remarkable!!
Most people are in awe at his impressibly high note, but keep in mind he's not only able to do it, he's such a talented musician he's confident enough to do it in front of a stadium, being aired in national tv, playing the national fricking anthem. Failure was not in his plans
first line: “oh that’s not bad” (pretends to finger it) second line: “oh that’s high” third line: “I’m 99% sure he made up fingers for that line and they just happened to work”
That's actually not far off. When you're above the C above the staff notes turn into "most fingerings work for it" and some have "all fingerings work for it". You kinda have to figure out what fingerings work best for helping you play in tune (although most people just duplicate the fingerings of the octave below it)
@@ericvandenavond8748 Verified. I've routinely had to play up around double-high F, G etc. Depending on your instrument's tune, certain fingerings work better than others to stay in tune without having to bend notes.
I don't consider myself patriotic or a trumpet fan, but this performance brings tears to my eyes at the end. Just something about the sliding notes, the echo, the extension of a familiar song, it just all comes together beautifully.
As a trumpet player I would have probably pissed myself, cracked a tooth, passed out, blew a hole out the side of my jaw and ass! This is absolutely impressive.
Yeah this is quite amazing. Those are what I usually call squeaky tire notes but he made them very un squeaky and nice and squeaky clean. If you are a band kid you understand my band kid talk
There's a subsection in one of the codes of the Laws of Physics that specifically prohibits Arturo Sandoval from cracking notes in the Star Spangled Banner. Yeah, oddly specific but there you go.
Idk what it is about this that also just sounds beautiful. Like, yes, the performance of those high notes is one of the most impressive I've ever seen, but it's also just magnificent too
friend, i know shit about music other than listening to it and saying how much i like it and this has my mind blown to another reality, it was beautiful...
i tried playing trumpet once and couldnt even get a sound out of it all i know about music is some melodica and piano i learned during covid this is fucking impressive you dont have to know anything about music, you just have to look at his face
I’m currently learning trumpet, and I can read music. Assuming I’m reading that correctly (as that high note is no where near what I read normally) that is a C6 (on instruments like a pianos, a Bb). Again assuming I’m correct that is a whistle note, like Mariah Carey stuff. I can’t really think of any other way to explain how impressive it is aside from this takes months of preparation. The face that he stayed basically the same color means he had great breathing to support the note. I can’t think of a comparison for that. His tone was and note quality was also very good, also because of air. This isn’t done often Edit: sorry for typos
Here’s one for you that still gives me shivers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mmzYFHWtAzk.html (it’s the 49ers-panthers nfc championship star spangled banner if the link doesn’t work)
@@94jdawg that's a pretty good performance, but I like Arturo Sandoval's better. the one you linked seemed like he slide into most the notes, like he started lower and bent the pitch up to where it should be. I like Arturo's precision in his notes, there's no glide in his trumpet playing.
i was sitting here thinking "this is nice, but theres no way hes crushing the whitney houston note"... then not only does he do it, but he yolos himself up an octave before. seriously impressive
ah man, probably not even a hot take but i wish wherever i went they would play any edition other than her cover of the song. no hate to her, but shit enough is enough. probably doesnt help that it was always playing on the radio at the start of my 12pm shifts in hellll lmao
The Whitney version is my absolute favorite, but even for the high note of the song, she barely squeaks it out, and with the help of a little grace note lift .. certainly doesn't hold it like this chap does for three full beats... good times...
@@zemanken honestly the Whitney Houston high note is very tasteful and should be in every star spangled banner interpretation. It just doesn’t feel complete without that high note, especially when it’s a trumpet doing it
I'm not trumpet player, but I've played the saxophone, and let me tell you... hitting those high notes on _any_ woodwind or brass instrument is a remarkable feat. The fact that he was able to hit them, and make them sound so clean is the kind of thing that would take _decades_ of practice.
I started trumpet 12 years ago and have cleft lip so it was super hard to learn and get good at , met this in person and he was genuinely happy to see a kid with a cleft lip playing trumpet . Seen him on this video when it first came out and still till this day and forever will always give me goosebumps and make me tear up. A God on the trumpet and the reason i got so motivated to get good despite the challenges i faced
A little word of advice from a washed up screamer: playing way up high *does* take pressure, unlike what some folks would have you believe. The key is being able to balance pressure from the horn with pressure from your air/chops. If you can keep everything balanced, you can still play musically up there. For some techniques, look up Roger Ingram teaching the "wedge breath" technique, as well as some stuff on tongue position. Working on those two things can really open things up for you above the staff.
@@raynamccleese7264 I don't play so much anymore, but I played through college for a good 13 years of being pretty dedicated to it. Played a lot of lead in jazz/marching
@@Jbr2005 Piccolo trumpets are notoriously finicky too. Playing this on a piccolo would still be very difficult, but would have a rather different sound
Mans deserved that Grammy! He must have eardrums and cheeks of steel to withstand the pressure it takes to play those notes, let alone make them sing so warmly like that.
True fact: he actually went higher during the rehearsal, but they asked him to turn it down a few octaves because he was playing beyond human hearing range.
As a flute player, I can confirm that we go this high, and that this dude is an absolute badass. The fact he managed to play some of the highest notes on a trumpet just leaves me in awe.
@@kimberly.z We do in fact go that high. In fact, we can go higher, but it is quite advanced due to the amount of precision in tone. He is only going (in concert pitch) to a B-flat6, whereas us flutes can go up to a C7 at the highest (according to most books), however we can actually go up to a C#7 or even a D7. Then there are the piccolo's
As a Alto Sax player, I am surprised he didn't blow shit out of his ears on those high notes. I remember when a fellow band member started to get into that range on a trumpet, and was as red as a crayon when done.
These notes are possible on alto sax if you cheat and use altísimo. This is coming from an alto sax player that could match and sometimes exceed a trump player who was playing double G.
it's because to play high, all the pressure comes from the abdominal muscles and some of the embouchure. the airways have to stay open and relaxed or else there's no air going through there = no sound. you learn not to clench your face to play high on brass instruments.
Man, every time I hear him, he never disappoints. I don't care if I've heard all of his music 50,000 already! You can't pay for greatness! #facts Definitely will always be one of my favorite trumpet players/arranger/musicians. #PERIOD
@@YellowFireIpad like that ascending part with the really fast notes, each one was played properly, and the notes that you just barely touch as a transition to the real melodic note. It’s the notes that give it humanity and a soul. Without them it sounds bland and lifeless, even those notes are played to perfection even if you only hear them for a minute fraction of a second.
Very very impressive I agree, but saying it was "pitch perfect" is a bit of a stretch. Human lips and the trumpet, or pretty much any wind instrument for that matter, aren't able to hold such a pitch so you can hear some faltering.
I quit my band because our school is like dead BUT when I was in band I played trumpet And f those even decently high notes I don’t know how he hit those other ones like geeez
@@samorymarshall5990 well it was in concert pitch. But he played a Bflat trumpet and it was transcriped for a Bflat trumpet. And when you guys play in Bflat major, us Bflat trumpeters play in C major
