O Come, O Come Emmanuel Trumpet Trio

Description

O Come, O Come Emmanuel Trumpet Trio

MTR 0343 4145

By Traditional French, John Mason Neale

Arr. Eddie Lewis

Entertain your Christmas audiences with this creative arrangement of O Come O Come Emmanuel. There are three verses and each verse has a different interpretation. The first two verses are over a sustained tonic. The last verse utilizes cascading sixteenth note patterns.

You can use this arrangement anywhere that Christmas music is performed, mall concerts, church Christmas services, school concerts, and events of that nature. This can also be used on gigs as background music at Christmas parties.

Trumpet Christmas Music Requests?

Each year we add a little more to our growing list of trumpet Christmas music pieces. We are always open to hearing from our customers as to what kind of music they are interested in. If you have any special requests for trumpet Christmas music pieces, then we invite you to contact us to share your ideas. Many of the pieces Eddie arranged this year were the results of requests from customers, just like you!

Trumpet Pro Skill Level

We put the skill level for O Come, O come Emmanuel at the Trumpet Pro level because of the range and the maturity of the phrasing. There are changing meters that stretch the phrasing a bit. The sixteenth notes also require some agility to make them sound like embellishments of the original Christmas carol.

Practice Recommendations

Spend most of your rehearsal time working on the sixteenth notes in the third verse and the overall phrasing. The sixteenths are mostly tag-team style. One part has four sixteenth notes and then another part has them, then another. Making this flow smoothly will require the ensemble to practice with a metronome.

It’s also a good idea to work on the intonation. When Eddie recorded this arrangement for the demo, he put a D concert drone in the background for the first to verses. Then he recorded scratch tracks over the drone, to help him with the intonation. Then before he laid down the final “takes” he removed the drone.

Maybe consider practicing the first two verses with a drone app or a similar device.

About the Trumpet Pro Skill Level

The Trumpet Pro skill level is the fifth skill level in our system. This skill level has exercises and music up to high C. There are many other considerations in this skill level but that is the most obvious.

To find more music for this specific skill level, search our other publications for the word “Trumpet Pro” in the title or descriptions. We publish books and compositions for students at the Trumpet Pro level that we believe you or your students will truly enjoy.

O Come, O Come Emmanuel Free Trumpet Play-Along

We have a free trumpet play-along for this trumpet trio arrangement of O Come, O Come Emmanuel in our You Play First Chair video series. The original purpose of the series is educational. Trumpet students from around the world are using these play-along videos to practice their sight reading. But the videos also offer a wonderful opportunity for trumpet players to try these sheet music compositions and arrangements before they purchase them. To access the play-along video for O Come, O Come Emmanuel, please click on the following link:

Demo Video

We try to have demo videos of all our compositions and arrangements. We want you to hear what the composition sounds like with real musicians performing them, instead of computer generated sounds. That is also why we do the videos, because we want you to see what it’s like to play this music. That way you can tell how natural a piece of music is. Music that sounds good on the computer doesn’t always work so well with live human performers.