Product Description
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Trumpet Trio
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 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.
Its 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.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.