Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
This just popped up on my YouTube feed. It’s a local concert I did at a church a few years ago.
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TBT: This week's Throwback Thursday post is a duet titled All Tied Up. A couple years before I published the first duet book (Celebrations), I started posting a PDF that I was updating as I went. I called it, The Stack of Trumpet Duets. Originally, there wasn't going to be a duet book. But The Stack kept growing.
Each of the duets in The Stack was dedicated to someone I knew. Some were dedicated to my teachers. Some were dedicated to my friends. Others were dedicated to my students. This week's TBT post was originally dedicated to John Durban, who was one of my students at the time. John is now the trumpet player for a band called The Suffers. He also plays locally with a band called the Free Radicals.
This duet is one of my Spider compositions. There are three different ways to use the spider chords. One of them is to use the rows raw, with no separate use of the chords. All Tied Up is one of the only compositions I ever published using the spider chords this way. Most of the others I use the chords and not the actual tone rows.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the All Tied Up. It's one of the most dissonant of all my duets.
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We are happy to announce that we sold a copy of this piece, Stand Firm in Christ, to our good friend in Finland.
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TBT: Today's Throwback Thursday post is the last of the canons I'll be posting as a TBT. This is a bitonal canon. The first part is in E flat, the second part is in G. The imitation is exact, displaced by only one beat.
This is duet number 69 in the Celebrations book.
I have always enjoyed writing polytonal compositions. However, my take on writing these pieces is apparently different from what other people do. The first time I presented one of these polytonal pieces to my composition teacher, Joseph Packales, he said that my choice of keys does not emphasize the dissonances you would expect from polytonal music.
I have a tendency, like with this canon, to put the keys a major third apart from each other. And Packales is correct, this is not very dissonant. To me, each key grouping has a different sound. And since they each have a different sound, they each have a different purpose. I think polytonal composition built in keys a major third away from each other make the piece sound dreamy.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this, the last of my cannons that we will share as a TBT post:
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TBT: This week's Throwback Thursday post is another canon, but this time it is a crab canon. What's a crab canon? That's when the first part reads the music forward, while the second part reads the exact same music, but reads it backwards, starting at the end and stopping at the beginning. https://youtu.be/sn0Mf_HnOgk
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TBT: Today's Throwback Thursday post is another canon, but this time the rhythms are based on a clave pattern. I hope you enjoy it.
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TBT: This week my Throwback Thursday features another fairly traditional cannon, High Speed Trumpet Chase! Next week I will start posting some of the less traditional, more experimental cannons. This one is also from the Celebrations duet book. Number 79 in the book because it's in the key of F#. I hope you enjoy it.
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TBT: This week we are going to start posting our Throwback Thursdays here on YouTube too (we already started this last week on other social media). This is the 38th duet from my Celebrations trumpet duet book. This is a canon in two sharps. I hope you enjoy it!
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Hello everyone. Thank you for your patience. I stopped doing the Q and A's when my mom went into hospice. I also stopped a lot of other things as well, so it wasn't just the Q and A's. Her funeral is on Tuesday, so we will either start the Q and A back up again next week (6/2/23) or the following week (6/9/23). Thank you for your patience.
By the way, if anyone lives in the Phoenix area and want's a lesson while I'm in town, please contact me through my website at www.EddieLewis.com/ thank you!
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Last year (2021) I was posting a video every day for over six months. I think this caused many people to miss some of what I was publishing. Some of the most important videos I published from that time have very low view counts, so I thought I should re-share the play-lists of those videos.
This first one is about stage fright. It's a series of five videos. I strongly recommend it if you struggle with stage fright (performance anxiety).
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk...
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