How To Write Brass Music (like a pro)

Want to get better at writing for your brass players? Our trombone player and resident composer, Soren, has some tips for how to write brass music like a pro.
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In this video, Soren breaks down some of the considerations that you should make when writing for brass players. From clefs, notation, articulation, and even how long you should have your brass players playing, this video is chock full of tips for aspiring arrangers and composers.
Timestamps:
2:21 Clefs
3:53 Ledger Lines
5:32 Rhythm and Articulation
7:37 Dynamics
8:38 Chops
11:19 Instrument Pairings
Musical Examples (performed by The Lakes Brass Quintet):
William Tell Overture (Freddy Maresca)
Mahler 1 (Freddy Maresca)
Misty (Samba)- • Misty - (Samba) - Bras...
Concierto de Aranjuez- • „Concierto De Aranjuez...
Spanish Flea- • Spanish Flea Brass Qui...
A Bug's Life Suite- • A Bug's Life Suite Bra...
End Credits from The Bad Batch- • EPIC STAR WARS BRASS C...
Mando v. Rocky- • The Mandalorian x Rock...
Jimmy Buffett Medley- briansadler.org/arrangements-1
Grim Grinning Ghosts- • Grim Grinning Ghosts B...

[@renanjohanncotamendes8352]

Thanks for the hints, you guys are the goats

[@TeethToothman]

Awesome stuff!

[@jeffphillips1063]

Yes! We trombones play all clefs and even….transpose! Just know that we can’t actually glissando between every pair of notes that exist. Forgot to mention trumpet mouthpiece selection in relation to transposition and humidity.

[@thelakesbrassquintet]

Transposing?! We’ll have to see if our trombone player is up for doing a video on glissandi 👀

[@joshdollard3186]

Mr. Phillips is this one of your students?

[@CheukTheGreatestOfEverything]

As a celesta player in my orchestra, the last image looks identical to mine

[@sorenallen]

No way, you play the celesta? That’s so cool!!!

[@jakethesyndicalist132]

As a bass player I don’t get why tubas don’t transpose like us

[@oskarboman]

Mostly for the sake of preferance. Personally, i feel that non tranposed gives a clear reference to where in the register the tubaist is playing. Especially when taking into consideration that tubas are thought of as a deep instrument, therefore being well bellow the f clef is "natual". There is probably a true reason why, some prefer sections transposed with "vb8" others prefer it just written out. I myself prefer written out, but could easily read both as I often play String Bass parts

[@freddymaresca5417]

Doth mine eyes detect orchestral excerpts transposed to sounding pitch??? My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[@thelakesbrassquintet]

To be fair, you did play them on C trumpet. If you were a REAL trumpet player, you would have played William Tell on E trumpet, just as Rossini intended.

[@freddymaresca5417]

@@thelakesbrassquintet You're right... I'll go return my degrees