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  • Ha ha, don't like this version. This song should not be played this way.

  • I would love to hit these notes on my trumpet!!! Although I've only been playing for 3 1/2 years and highest I can hit is the high E. But that's pretty good considering I'm a freshman in highschool!!! And only playing on a beginner trumpet. Next week I'm getting a Benjamin trumpet. Is that a good one or no?

  • @dylandavis24 I would recommend that you play on a few trumpets before you chose to get a new one. Buy the trumpet that you feel most comfortable on. Right now, I am playing on a Yamaha Xeno 1935RGS. Make sure that you do lip slurs and long tones when you are comparing trumpets to buy.

  • @chrism4n14 All I need is your e-mail

  • @chrism4n14 All I need is your e-mail

  • I always play this at our football games lol

  • I have a question... what would happen if you gave one of the screamers (maynerd, wayne bergeron, etc) a piccolo trumpet? and i mean after they get used to one if they havent played one already, would everything be an octave up or so? cause they sound like theyre already hitting the notes in the impossiblely high range.

  • @chrism4n14 If you gave Maynard a piccolo trumpet it would shatter the sound barrier, only problem we wouldn't be able to hear it.

    I have the sheet music for this (even the solo trumpet part)

  • @Branon5 Could you say.. I don't know.. Send me a link to your copy maybe? :D I'd love to play this(Even if it would be down 2 octaves but still)

  • Don't you miss the days when you could hide comments?

  • the ABSOLUTE

  • The range this guy had is absolutely beyond words. Like, I've been playing trumpet for 9 years, I'm a pretty solid lead player, probably with about a high F to high G range, hit a double C maybe 3 or 4 times in my life, but the fact that Maynard could do that and more every time he picked up the horn is unbelievable. He's one of the best ever, will always be one of my idols as a lead player. RIP, Boss.

  • @trumpetguy3039 I'm in the same position as you, though only having played for 4 years. I can't quite reach it yet but I plan to get it around summer time. Especially with the progress I've been making. At the end of last summer, the highest note I could reach was probably a high E. Over that time, I've worked my way up to Double G, which I've only reached about 2 or 3 times. I've got to say that this is possibly the best comment I've seen on YouTube ever.

  • @TehDevl That's actually really good- just make sure you don't rush it too much =) and avoid using too much lip/mouthpiece pressure (I used to have this issue).

  • @themeleed I've been able to reach the GG on multiple occasions, just never when I'm playing in band which makes me really sad.

  • @TehDevl yeah. My suggestion is work on getting the best tone and intonation for all the high notes as you can, try practicing them with a turner. If you can hit *insert high note here* at home, it's mostly useless unless you can hit it well in a performance. Definitely keep the instrument up, and keep listening to great trumpet players.

  • I always did like his version than the original (Bill Conte)

  • @liggleguy257 I can actually play one of his songs almost as written, Admirals Horn. If you want the music I have all of the parts including a crazy high solo

  • Maynard looks a bit crazy lol. But he's awesome

  • No human can come remotely close to his supreme register I mean his solos where crazy the highest I can hit is an E above the staff or ocassionaly an F above the staff.

    Wish I had the music. By the way if anybody wants the parts for Maynard Ferguson's Admirals Horn and a recording of it just let me know and I can get it to you.

  • @Branon5 If you can hit an E above the staff, you're pretty good. I've played trumpet for 5 years, this is my 6th, and I can barely hit a C above the staff.

  • Pablo Aimar on 1:31 :D

  • Maynard was the reason I started playing the trumpet.. He left us a month after i first felt the trumpet in my hand

  • where was this, looks like buffalo

  • Liked the high note at the end!

  • Its just a collection of really bad haircuts

  • Long live MF, the greatest trumpet player in the history of American music.

    Peace

  • omg circus and Benny Hill :)

  • Absolutly wounderful coming from the point of view of another trumpet playin. Very good MF!

  • 15 people had their computers upside down....

  • @tpstrat14 I think the epiciness that was played in this video by Maynard might have messed with your hearing, because you are hearing wrong if you think this sucked

  • just click 2:05 over and over. He just got shot

  • HAHAHAHAHAHHA look at the guy with the drums x'D

  • that keyboard solo was so fucking tight. Way to save the piece, dude. Maynard TRIED to ruin it with his mouse-sounding SHIT, but that keyboard solo was AWESOME!!

  • i had some doubts weather or not he could make it to the end. good job Mr M

  • I seriously like the guy on the keyboard. Really funky.

    :)

  • Honestly, I am a trumpet player and Fergi is a Legend. But here he did something I do not really like. High register blowing, the rhythm does not work, the feeling is poor.

  • Man if he isnt careful, he's gunna pop a nut

  • @VoughtF4U1A or my ears... yuck... he sounds so bad. I don't understand why playing high is some kind of virtue if you can't do FUCK else...

  • @tpstrat14 I find it interesting that you choose to voice your hatred of Maynard Ferguson on multiple videos. Is it so important to everyone hear about your very singular hatred of his superior control in the upper register? I would advise you spend more time finding what you do like than criticizing what you don't. I'm sure you appreciate all the negative attention you're getting, but the rest of us would like to listen to this music undisturbed by your acrimonious commentary.

  • WOW Wayne looks a lot different.....

  • Chuck Norris was killed by Rocky... 13 times.

  • goosebumps

  • my band played this version two years ago and I freaking loved it....but then the seniors graduated and my band director chose to have us play the original. Not nearly as fun.

  • ahaha lmao @ 2:04

  • @goonarf u need to calm down dude its a youtube comment

  • lets all admit it. Maynard Ferguson was a showboat. but, he had a right. He was in my opinion the best trumpet soloist ever. high notes, vibratro, rips, falls, he could do everything and make it sound great while doing it.

  • @goonarf you're a moron Ferguson was having fun that's what he did and he was a great player better than you could ever be and certain better than Watson if you don't like this video then don't listen to it or comment.

    BTW the best trumpet players of all time were Bix Biederbecke and louis armsrtong go ahead and try to throw out names who you think are better tahn them

  • Is that Wayne Bergeron i see in the trumpet section. :) I like it

  • It's David Crigger on drums, right? Such a bad ass ^^

  • Maynard......so sorry, you're gone now :( , who´s the drummer in this set up? Is it David Crigger?

  • It ain't vibrato dick-wod - they're lips trills - please understand the instrument before coming on here and dissing the Boss ?

  • Wtf? Mike Portnoy?

  • ugh... could this arrangement be more annoying? Maynard put so much vibrato on the high notes. I understand it's hard to hit those, but still. James Last's arrangement is much better, more symbolic, and the trumpet soloist Derek Watson or whatever his name is is much better.

  • @goonarf Watkins*

  • @goonarf I'm pretty sure he could hit the notes quite a bit easier than you make it sound, but Maynard loved having fun while playing his music. I guarantee it was on purpose every time.

  • @goonarf You're a fuck nut. It's called a shake. and You wish you were half that good.

  • @MrDrDuck Maybe the fact that I don't even play a fucking brass instrument has something to do with that. So shut your goddamn Mouth. You don't know who I am or anything about my opinions. I play the fucking saxophone and the piano, which is about as far as you can get from trumpet. I was simply stating that someone with as much talent as Maynard should realize that this song probably shouldn't be played with. It's MY OPINION. So kindly, get the fuck off my case.

  • @goonarf Well leave your stupid comments in your pocket next time.

  • @goonarf SAx IS a BRASS instrument IDIOT what a liar you are....sax is in the BRASS section

  • @mjw9363 Well I am just about to blow your mind. Sax is a woodwind instrument. You play it by blowing across a reed. Likewise, piano is a string instrument, contrary to popular belief that it's a percussion.

  • @SuaveTito Thank you. So much.

  • @mjw9363 really? your obviously very music illiterate

  • @mjw9363 No, saxophones are a woodwind instrument. You are retarded, sir. They are played with a wooden reed. WOOD wind.

  • Listen to those chops of steel, they are amazing!

  • @BeowulfVids IVE GOT LIPS OF STEEL -Duke Nukem.

  • maynard i think is a show off my opinon

  • 2:05 over and over. click it. you dig?

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  • @ 1:13, what is the drummer doing?! look at that face!

  • @revoltingmexican Either yawning or about to get sick. Noticed he turned his head to the left. lol

  • Can anyone tell me what that last note is? Those were my last three notes in my very brief career as a solo trumpet player.

  • BTW. This is not Circular Breathing, Maynard has the ability to hold high F#´s more than 20 seconds because of his immense lung capacity!

  • How come it stops playing at 1:20 for me, does this happen to anybody else?

  • to fast

  • Maynard rocks. He created some of the best songs in time. To me, he ranks up there with Glenn Miller and Brian Setzer.

  • Maynard is awesome--I play trumpet myself, and I could never go that high. I listen to this song every day. R.I.P. Maynard. We all miss you so much.

  • Holy Crap. How the heck can you circular breathe on a double F#?!

  • @Hades96681 where does he do that?

  • @IAmNinboy im pretty sure its at 2:22

  • @MusicMan161616 Holy crap, he is as well. That's actually.. amazing.

  • @Hades96681 go back in time, die, and reincarnate yourself as Maynard Ferguson. Then you can circular breathe on a double F#.

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  • @coolfoolroolz I guess that's the only thing to do, man.

  • Who's the keyboard player?

  • I never get old of this song. I love that keyboard solo. Mayanard, let alone the whole band, is amazing.

  • As a trumpet player, I'm getting a headache just WATCHING him SCREAM like a BEAST! Man he's an awesome screamer!!!

  • maynard ferguson is undoubtedly one of the best trumpet players to walk the planet

  • love it!

  • That was sick! One of the best!

  • Ferguson played for a total of 52 seconds in this song cracking on 20% of his notes, he's obviously not the best player in that band of professional musicians.

  • you realize hes not in his prime and also this want the first song in the concert right?

  • Dude, does Maynard look YOUNG to you? Think about it.

  • @ChangeWontWait id like to see you play that high without a frack

  • @ChangeWontWait screw you, maynard is amazing

  • @ChangeWontWait Hey dude--just shut up. You dont know crap about Maynard. You couldn't do that at all--let alone in the last years of your life. Have you ever even played trumpet, you conceited brat?! didn't think so. So just shut up, and dont comment on Maynard's playing--Long live maynard!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ChangeWontWait Your opinion is the weakest link, good bye. *a huge fireball engulfs your house along with you*

  • Who the heck dislikes this video?Screw them!

  • Who the heck dislikes this video?Screw them!

  • @Hades96681

    They are called trolls of the internets..its sad really. *sigh*

  • @Hades96681 LOL haters gon hate.

  • @Hades96681 Look in the more recent comments. There's at least one person who feels the need to express his utter HATRED of MF's playing.

  • @Hades96681 I think the only reason you wouldn't like it is sound quality I couldn't crank it loud enough!

  • @cutandweld67 yeah loud!

  • @Hades96681 the people who are mad cuz they cant play like that

  • Is that a young Wayne Bergeron in the trumpet section?

  • yup

  • @joejoejoejoejoe12345 it is lol and he's blonde !

  • Watching him play this just gets me pumped lol

  • ballsacks that was greatness

  • Love the kiss off!

  • Okay...that was really awesome!!! The drummer is so good!

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  • Sweet, Wayne Bergeron on lead. :)

  • @diaznutz i have his cell number

  • Cool, I'm playing with him in a couple months.

  • mf i dead.

  • @diaznutz do you mean the lead player or Maynard? The lead trumpet in this is still alive, but maynard died in 06.

  • MF Is DEAD!!!!

  • @diaznutz really?

  • the keyboard solo sucked. the patch the kb player chose didn't really fit with the feeling of the song at all.

  • @hemna - You know, I actually thought that it was trying to clash with the band, ut in a good way. I think it worked.

  • that whole keyboard thing was probably really trendy then, right?

  • You have to remember that people don't care about how fast or slow the music is going people just went to see Maynard!

  • Playing a synth in this kind of music is like using a flute in heavy metal music; doesn't work so well. Should've stuck with a guitar solo on this one.

  • The beat is too fast.. !

  • says...u???

  • Sounded like they were just rushing through it...Las vegas revue style. The song is there, but the feeling is not. That keyboard solo and flute solo just trainwrecked it for me.

  • everyone tht voted your comment up is a retard. mf makes the speed.

  • Hey, if you wanna call yourself a musician, you have to be able to hit all capable notes on your instrument clearly and in tune. Don't even think about making stupid excuses.

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  • im a begginer on trumpet but im getting there

  • That wouldn't actually be a big problem on a piano...

  • I know. I'm a horn player myself so I just wanted to point it out. That's all.

  • so are you saying miles davis isn't a musician? he didn't play high

  • Right, He "didn't." But that doesn't mean that he "couldn't" to play high.

  • it doesn't mean that he could either. and it carries no importance on the music he actually created, all within a pretty average note range. would his music have been improved by playing some notes like dizzy gillespie?

  • I don't think his range reflects his work. You have to master certain skills to make clear decision on what kind of music you want to persue. I bet he mastered everything before making his decision.

  • I don't think you need to master an instrument to be able to create music of worth. I appreciate your overall argument but don't agree. Talent only becomes an issue if the artist cannot conquer the skill required to perform their vision. If they can it doesn't matter if the artist can only play ten notes. Whether miles could play high or not is irrelevant - as someone once noted, he doesn't think up there. If the artist, due to their ability, has to change their dream, THEN it is a problem

  • Ok, I was talking from performer's perspective, so I can't disagree with you. This topic is really deep when you really think about it. I don't think there's no wrong answer to this so I'll take your argument into account and think about it more.

  • it certainly is deep, and interesting to think about. i do agree with you that the more control you have over your instrument the less you have to think about what you're doing and you can think more about why you're doing it. which can only be a good thing. good luck with it laerk :)

  • Dumb.

  • hahahah coming from a euph player. good luck, bud.

  • Ya that was a mistake i was commenting on a dumb comment. Youtube has been doing that lately.

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  • is anyone even supposed to be able to play higher i believe that's a no

  • Haha, omg you damn high school kids, there are a bunch of people that can play above double B, Maynard could play above that as well.

  • He can play 4 octaves about the normal range for a trumpet player. Which is incredible considering it takes like a month to add another note to your range

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  • I guess you don't play trumpet cause that is just simply not true. There is no set amount of time it takes to build range, that is that average range of someone that plays high but that is because after that it so hard to keep a full tone above it. And also his range expanded well above triple G, he just didn't play that high that often cause he knows it won't always sound good.

  • R.I.P maynard

  • I play a Holton Lt 302 Mf Horn and it is the best Trumpet you can play as a Leader....

    But Fergusons Trumpets are Monsters, you must have a really good airstream to play a trumpet like this....

  • its a large bore with A LOT of resistance in the tubing. Any trumpet maybe used for lead.

    I use a Schilke X3 which is a large bore with barely any resistance.

  • buenisimo

  • Video director's an idiot. Doesn't know which instrument is soloing at any given moment. Keyboard's doing his thing, but the camera's checking out the drummer or something. Same thing in the other videos of this event. Too bad... Another superb M.F. Band performance, as usual.

  • Even his backup trumpets sound like they can hit the high register... That must have been a good payday to play with this guy.

  • wayne bergeron man, check him out

  • I just tryed to play like this guy... my head almost exploded for real!!!

  • Yeah don't just pick up your horn and try to get up to the stratosphere....guys have ruined their careers trying to do that without training. Maynard could play that high because he developed a special breathing technique based on yoga.

  • also jeffbrister2004,

    he actually played his trumpet the wrong way. look at his throat. he wasn't taught how to play it right. I still respect him to be the best trumpet player ever. look at the previous videos and look at the progress of his throat expanding. Don't try to play like him. you'll lose brain cells trying to play like him. he's a pro

    if im wrong sry. i've just been observing

  • Or maybe everyone else plays the trumpet wrong.

  • Lol dude there is no right or wrong way to play trumpet in most cases, what ever works, everybody's mouth and teeth and lip muscles are different. and it isn't bad if his throat expands, I have seen a lot of people do that when they wail like that

  • "tried"

  • I can't believe I spelled tried wrong. :p

  • When and where was that concert?

  • Wow !! I guess the next time I watch "Rocky" the theme song will have more meaning!! What a Great Band!! LOL

  • the sax player is amazing and the mullet just makes it more epic

  • He is great and so are the rest ( esp. wayne bergeron, i have his horn) but i don't like how he had the synth playing all the time, it doesn't have as much power and meaning with all that electric crap. and is that ron pedley

  • I second Drag0ncl0ud's response it takes less air moving faster, I took a lesson with Roger Ingram at that was exactly how he said to play them, as well as Jim Manley, and Eric Miyashiro...

  • Marnard..the boss...I wish I could of seen him live.

    And whoever can shake a frikin High F# with one hand...then wow lol