Trumpet Sound Effects (5): The Doit

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The doit (pronounced "doyt") is a technique used in jazz and contemporary music. When you do a glissando upward after sounding a note, you've done a doit. The half-valve technique helps a lot with this sound. In fact, it's essential. Use lots of air and blow even harder when you've got the valves halfway down or the sound won't be heard well.

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[Cinnabond]

You rock my world...your videos (this one and the ones on mutes) got me into a select jazz band and helped me learn this effect so I don't look like an idiot in a very advanced group. :) Thanks so much!

[jharnum]

@Cinnabond

aw, thanks! you made my day. Always glad to help someone avoid looking like an idiot. ;-)

[ibelongtomysax13]

thanks needed help with this

[jharnum]

@ibelongtomysax13

glad to hear it. thanks for the thanks!

[wkzh]

"...close to an octave, not quite..." Not quite indeed, it's a tenth.

Great vids! Awesome when your trumpet pals aren't around to give you the heads up on "what-to-write-what-not-to-wri­te-and-what-it-would-or-wouldn­'t-sound-like" part of writing.

[jharnum]

@wkzh

thanks. And thanks for the interval identification...

[ThatsaCryinShame]

i love ittttt

[jharnum]

@Awshbuscus

hmm, never thought of it that way, but yeah. In fact if you flip the written symbol for a fall, you'll get the symbol for a doit.... However, if you do a fall on the other side of the planet, it is not a doit on this side of the planet. ;-)

[Awshbuscus]

So it's pretty much an inverted fall?

[jharnum]

@SJCSmusic

:-)