Canadian Brass - Amazing Grace

Music video by Canadian Brass performing Amazing Grace. (C) 1991 Rhombus Media Inc.

[@lanaurban5730]

The original Canadian Brass is so amazing

[@briang530]

For sure. It's actually hard to find much original info on their back-catalogue these days. As an example my favorite Canadian brass arrangement of this song is their jazz version which the internet says is from 2008, but is on my parents wedding tape from 1979 somehow...

[@daboilegends770]

No wonder one of their albums is called amazing brass

[@torretje29]

The best formation CB ever had! With Ronald Romm, Frederick Mills, David Ohanian, Gene Watts and Chuck Daellenbach!

[@johnswoboda9809]

This is absolutely beautiful and brilliant. I grew up listening to you guys as my father, John P. Swoboda, was an instrumental music teacher for nearly four decades in the Old Bridge, NJ, public school system. We actually saw you live at the NJMEA convention at the Sheraton in East Brunswick, NJ in the late 90s and I'll never forget how sweet Canon in D sounded live in that beautiful atrium. This arrangement is exactly the sort of classic New Orleans Ragtime version Dad would've loved. He was an amazing man and instilled a deep and abiding love for the beauty of so many different styles of music in the literally thousands of students' he touched over his long and dedicated career, even inspiring some of his best and brightest to become music teachers themselves.

[@drew32904]

I want this played at my funeral.

[@edsonluiz5543]

Essa Maravilhosa Graça me alcançou: obrigado, Jesus!

[@timbrelman]

Nice Dixie Land New Orleans sound Jazzy. Love the Tuba solo.

[@MasterOfDisguise116]

lol the only place french horn and jazz actually go together

[@iandavidhenderson]

The Canadian Brass are the tops in brass ensemble playing. In fact they have set the standard that other groups have attempted to attain. Thanks for this super video. I hope there are more like it. Class all the way.

[@LiyAxolotl]

I really really like this

[@MsCheeseburger12]

3:18 best moment

[@Adriel-yf8rv]

Silly Denisa, the entire song was the best moment

[@Melsi1979]

we are lucky to have access to this video!

[@LOUDbariFTW]

I ABSOLUTELY LOOOVVVEEEEE the way they ended this piece.

[@Tbone0565]

Canadian Brass is so cool....

[@200378820]

I love the trombone in this song!!!! Being a trombone player myself.

[@RichChristensen-xr9yc]

Incredible!

[@aejb78]

I'll always associate their version of Amazing Grace to when I was in Iraq. This version was played at a memorial service I attended for some fallen soldiers. I love this song.

[@TheIGots]

Amazing grace. How sweet the sound of the Canadian Brass.

[@Draaiorgelvriendje]

Fantastic brass!

[@RedAssassin274]

these masters have amazing endurance!

[@firsthr]

the three good things that came out of canada were hockey, maple syrup, and canadian brass

[@arbie2]

Just plain old AWESOME!

[@Nick-ry4mk]

Just bought this arrangement for my quintet. Super excited to play it, but I’m afraid I’ll never live up to Romm’s performance!

[@BRassquintett]

our big idols!!

[@tomfong292]

Such a timeless performance. Love it.

[@Emma-ul3gz]

Oh god I love thisssss

[@MrParra8012]

I love the tuba solo

[@CathrynAnnPaul]

Lovely!

[@joan2860]

love u guys!:)

[@Bobfrey12]

absolutely amazing...wow

[@MartinMusic]

Amazing 😜

[@josetrmpt94]

Magnífico!!

[@christiancaputo7602]

Could've sworn i heard i heard a clarinet, none of the less, this us great!

[@Lucas1746]

Essa musica já é linda, com essa interpretação ficou mais linda ainda... Muito bacana.

[@firsthr]

damn... this is awesome

[@MrSidney9]

Amazing indeed

[@thiagojesustavares6363]

toca muitoooo.

[@timano]

All I can say is -- I wish I could play like that!

[@TheBrassyFive]

great playing

[@AVarshaAndersonss-ys1kq]

Good tribute for amazing grace

[@holton345]

I cannot believe the hardheadedness of some of the kids in here, commenting on instruments that they obviously have never seen or played. Fred Mills plays a Bb cornet with a Shepherd's Crook bell throughout. Ronald Romm plays the first half on a Bb piccolo trumpet. He uses a Bb trumpet for the second half of the arrangement. There are precisely zero pocket trumpets in this video, and in the many years of the Brass playing live I have never heard of them using *any* pocket trumpets, which are generally very low quality *novelty* instruments. (I used to own and play one in a quintet when they were a new thing in the late 1980s.) The 1st and 3rd slides of pretty much all pocket trumpets cannot be adjusted for pitch via triggers or saddles, but they make a surprisingly broad tone for such a small bell and super-tight wrap. A pocket trumpet is a normal 4'6" (roughly) Bb trumpet that is wrapped up with extra loops in the main bugle to make it very small, or "pocket-sized" (which, of course, it isn't) and because very few makers of high end instruments or even major manufacturers of pro-level horns bother making them no one has properly worked out the acoustics, so they stay firmly in the ranks of novelty instruments. The pocket trumpet uses a bore profile very similar to a small bore trumpet similar to what a lead player would use in a jazz band. A piccolo trumpet is a completely different idea of tone and style. It is super pinched and lightweight in tone, even nasal. NOTHING sounds like a piccolo trumpet except for a piccolo trumpet. It is absolutely distinctive in timbre and delicacy. A Bb piccolo is only about 27" long in the main bugle. It is super short, one octave higher than the normal Bb trumpet. The bell throat it very small, as is the bell rim diameter. It is the horn of choice for many works from the Baroque as it is believed that it emulates the trumpets of those times. Ron Romm was well known as a master on the piccolo. Actually, both men were, but Ron could do something unlike anyone else I have ever heard: He could play traditional jazz on it and make it sound like a clarinet above the break. Uncanny. This gave the Brass the ability to play this style of music and sound more or less authentic. If you study the recordings of these guys (like all their excellent Fats Waller stuff) you will hear lines on the piccolo trumpet that really sound a lot like that high clarinet. Not even close to sounding like a pocket trumpet. Sorry, guys. That is just incorrect, "un-information".

[@redfive2008]

I played a pocket trumpet once, and I'll admit I thought it would sound like a piccolo trumpet at first, because I'd never even heard of a pocket before a couple of years ago. I've also dabbled in standard trumpets (I am a trombone player, but I sometimes fiddled around with my brother's trumpet), and my sense is that the pocket needed more lip and air pressure to produce a decent sound compared to a regular trumpet, but also that it seemed louder and perhaps harsher than the regular trumpet. As Holton said, the small trumpet in the video is a piccolo; the CB to my knowledge have never used a pocket, ever.

[@collinpetry1161]

I love your note about how Ron Romm plays the piccolo trumpet. At times it just doesn't sound like a brass instrument, it's piercing above the group as a clarinet in a New Orleans band. That's partially why I like this quintet arrangement so much, it pays tribute to a classic jazz sound you just can't help but recognize and enjoy.

[@drbranham]

Actually, you have the trumpet players reversed. Ron Romm is playing the cornet.

[@LtGerbal]

Ive never seen someone get so worked up over a kid missing a cornet for a pocket trumpet.

[@chrisgroth8521]

drbranham I was gonna say Ronald Romm has the iconic mustache haha

[@LoLRaider]

i had goosebumps in the end

[@ohtayukiho6444]

すごい、世界最高レベルの演奏です。美しい・・・。

[@mauriciofernandes7917]

Very good sound liked

[@raymondweaver8526]

Goosebumps

[@joshgomes5939]

+raymond weaver 2 spooky

[@p22709489]

very...................very good !!

[@rbustamante16]

ron ron... sonido natural de esa trompeta.

[@robococknballs]

"Amazing" indeed

[@luizohm]

Sensacional

[@FenceHorse]

i think one of the secrets to being awesome at music is having a sweet beard...

[@bladedspokes]

Man I miss Fred.

[@kelltrumpet]

RIP Fred Mills

[@geniumxuepin4838]

:D i love it~ hope can learn tat skill.. :D

[@OhMyGodItsJc15]

@MrCaryu the always amazing Ronald Romm :)

[@Jacqueline031311]

im a tuba player XD and this sounds absolutely wonderful!!!!!! even though i like the tuba ALOT,

[@egmardealmeidamiron]

muito bonito

[@robaphone20]

It also takes a lot of dedication and practice

[@Rudger]

2:12 FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@koss121]

no the bead comes from making awesome music!

[@SuperBabyStudios]

The big one is a cornet and the small is a piccolo trumpet.

[@WillHammerhead]

the french horn guy looks like the bad guy from titanic. and i love this quintet!!!

[@zikietseka2353]

how may Canadian brass bands are called Canadian Brass because I keep seeing more than one when I search on youtube

[@ProdigyStepper]

1:15 Oh there they are....

[@TiagoDaniel30]

Maravilhoso! Quando virão ao Brasil ?

[@knowingyourmind]

[@poaling]

didn't know santa claus was an awesome cornet player ;D

[@julinha513]

Me emocionei🥲🥲

[@bassoon5175]

@Holton 345, pretty much right except Ronald romm was the one playing the solo

[@somegalfromcan]

lol @ the advertisement for LMFAO that preceeded this - bizarre!

[@smile0its0james]

@sogrungey its a cornet :)

[@16mmDJ]

@GrodSamson AUGH. You instigated the trollers.

[@marineswimmer222hawk]

dude thats so awsome were creating a group like that at our school and my teacher wanted me to watch them to see what songs to learn

[@jenna1094]

Gollycws012 the lager trumpet is a bach cornet and the smaller one is a piccalo trumpet

[@EhrenValme]

funky french horn lol

[@MrCaryu]

who is that awesome trumpet soloist?

[@shenn.annagins7176]

cant you tell by the beard? Its santa! 🙂

[@passwifjreiguru5325]

ka yu wan ronald romm

[@JoseAugusto-jh3gb]

hino CCB

[@aaronwhite6138]

3:56

[@Oberkapo]

@LankyKaiser May I point you to Rush, the Wonderbra, and Wolverine and Deadpool? Oh, and Tim Horton's.

[@user-ih5gx4cp7w]

This video was in an album and I watched this about 15 years ago. Anyone know the name of the CD? teribbly missing it

[@iljavalster7257]

+苏阳 cd: The Essential Canadian Brass video: Home Movies

[@austonbrady792]

does anyone know how to get sheet music for this plz!!!???

[@loganroyy]

Auston Brady buy it online

[@austonbrady792]

loganroyy thanks

[@squeezemyparticiple]

I'm also a trombonist! (I prefer to call trombone players "tromboners", though. You know, being in high school.)

[@ReaumWingblade]

mine's got Gangnam Style on it, I'm not complaining.

[@instrutorfan]

8 people listen Mnozil Brass!

[@stefanstephensen4708]

HornplayerAlancivil

[@mattio79]

it isn't a piccolo trumpet, it's a shepherd's crook cornet.

[@redfive2008]

Nope. Fred Mills in the back plays Bb trumpet and piccolo trumpet in this piece, while Ronald Romm plays Bb cornet.

[@TH3xB1LLY]

@GrodSamson 5 people did :(

[@RICDirector]

LOL I know who the FH player reminds me of...in the face and eyebrows, Captain Stanley from EMERGENCY..... :) Doubt Capn could play that well though. :)

[@alexmacarthur5136]

His name is David Ohanian, he's my friend's dad.

[@peepzstar]

wat are all theyre names? please put instrument then name. tuba players hot as always.

[@kontra93]

@theweirdguy99 Yes? Lol

[@lovelivelifeproceed]

Does anyone know what instruments are in the Canadian Brass?

[@redfive2008]

Tuba, french horn, trombone, Bb cornet, and the last player switches between Bb trumpet and piccolo trumpet.

[@mypinkjistring]

@TeamUberBeast lol we suck at baseball.

[@johohare]

7 people lost there mouth peice....

[@rushrockssa]

@BSAcamper2009 Why do you bash something just because you have no understanding of it? BTW, it's not improv. Its written like that.

[@FenceHorse]

i love how romm even knows when to use false fingerings to tune with the other 4 guys. :0

[@infocommon4946]

At 3:37 the fingering doesn't match the audio. I know it sounds picky because I adore these guys and their arrangements but it may be that they are miming here. It's just a technical point I noticed.

[@connorbagheri]

Three is a common alternate fingering for one and two.

[@totof543]

+Connor Bagheri yep but here B and Bb are played with only the first one, for both notes x) so guess what, that's not the good fingering :p

[@connorbagheri]

+Christophe Deblaton Actually the B is played using two, but he "rushes" the fingerings between the B and Bb (the only reason I used quotations is because now that I'm looking at this video again, it looks like they're fingering along to a recording. It still sounds like it could be real, but the fingerings make it look fake to me now).

[@patrick1580]

and/or a mustache :p

[@TeamUberBeast]

@LankyKaiser you are insane baseball and hockey dont sound good to you?

[@polkaholik]

What is Nicki Minaj????

[@flyfishjones]

Freakin gangnam. I WANNA HEAR SOME REAL MUSIC!

[@stuartbezant1714]

is that an e flat cornet hes playing?

[@GlobalHunt5]

I made my new guide go down just so I could cover at least part of Justin Bieber's face :)