Variations on the Carnival of Venice, 1st Place Trombone Solo Performed by Tynan McGee

Tynan McGee performs "Variations on the Carnival of Venice" by Jean-Baptiste Arban, revised for slide trombone by Bob McChesney, accompanied by Laurie Ketron. This performance received first place in the trombone category at the Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) state Solo and Ensemble Contest on Saturday, April 28th, 2018.
This is not the entire version of the song, I had to cut it down quite a bit as they will cut you off if you play for more than eight minutes. Notable cuts are every piano interlude (there should be one between every other variation) and the theme, which is normally played between the intro and variation 1.
This was my final solo at the state solo and ensemble contest, as it was my senior year. If you are watching as a future soloist at the contest, good luck! My only advice is to not play this song. There are numerous other, much easier and better sounding songs than this one. Other solos that I have played include the Morceau Symphonique, Antande et Allegro, the Sulek Sonata, and Ballade by Bozza.
Variations on the Carnival of Venice is in the public domain. I don't think I'm breaking any laws by uploading this. If I am, then I'll take it down.

[@daviboi808]

Playing that, and from MEMORY! This man right here is a legend.

[@oofmcdoof198]

when you practice songs like this, its all from memory imo. i played blue bells in hs and i remember playng it so much i did it basically from memory lol

[@cutieelise]

I don’t mean to brag, but I can play Hot Cross Buns... MEMORIZED Lol, jokes aside, this was an AMAZING performance! Great tone, your tonguing was articulate, and from MEMORY. Nice job, my friend👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 (coming from a fellow trombonist)

[@enriquethetrombonist1901]

Cutie Elise I’m in eight grade I’m trying to learn this, this guy played it good, I wanna play the full version thou, that’s insane. Edit: this insane too

[@mrnobody3122]

@@enriquethetrombonist1901how did it go, I’m 15 learning it on euph

[@TheSugarbooger]

@@enriquethetrombonist1901 Did you do it?

[@Overlycomplicatedswede]

a high schooler that can trill so cleanly? that is fucking impressive, im a bass trombonist that just graduated highschool and can barely trill at all lol

[@daddychill1027]

he used his trigger to trill

[@stephaniecurry45]

Pretty good for a high schooler!

[@CSRookie]

actually it was damn good for a high schooler

[@3mo2007]

I did this as an eighth grader🤘

[@FTFP1300]

On behalf of WIAA, WMEA, the dairy farmers of Washington, and Leschwab tires: I would like to present this comment as a momento of your participation in this year's state solo contest. Congratulations!

[@FanTrombone]

wow - its from memory!!!! congrats!

[@josephmasi6721]

Outstanding technique and tone. The fastest parts seemed to come easiest to us. Play it on a valve trombone and reduce the difficulty by half. Congrats, Tynan.

[@monkadelic13]

I played blue bells of scotland for my 1993 all nation, but i am familiar with this score sheet, and know just how fucking hard it is. it is NOT for the squeamish the 128th b flat octave jumps top to bottom is what destrpoys normal people. MIND you!!! THIS IS A TRUMPET PIECE, and never was made for bass clef trombone. but we managed to make it happen. never say never son... and looks like you play my exact horn, a Bach 42B stradivarious. You honestly could not ever go that range in octaves on this song without this.

[@anthonyandrade9399]

I'm starting to do A day Venice with my trombone but I think mine is more different and I am a middle schooler so let's see how I'll turn out

[@FR-oq1hy]

Spectacular! Great chops 😳👏🏻

[@thezestyxeno7884]

Are there any exercises you have for double and triple tonguing? I have almost everything down except for those parts

[@tynanmcgee8624]

The arban book is full of them if you're willing to dedicate yourself to those. I found the best way for me to get better at fast tonguing was to practice it alllll the time. In the halls at school, walking around, listening to music, just double/triple tonguing tricky lines can help a lot. It took me years to get to the level I'm at now

[@salt4858]

@@tynanmcgee8624 Second this. This changed me from not knowing how to multiple tongue to being able to play Rolling Thunder in a matter of months.

[@jakej2680]

@@tynanmcgee8624 as someone who lived by Arbans in HS and stopped after, this is a huge throwback. Carnival was always favorite way to practice. You did a fantastic job!

[@RaspberryRockOffGridCabin]

Incredibly challenging piece. Great job, Tynan. In senior high school I did a solo with our band, very difficult piece, also ended on a stupidly high note. Do you think I could hit that note? Heh.

[@CSRookie]

The 11 dislikes are tuba players who wish they had this many notes to play

[@gustavohenrique2979]

Holy fuck this is amazing

[@CooperJAdams]

Memorized?😳

[@josephbongon8295]

Hey do you have any recommendations for any audition pieces?

[@thezestyxeno7884]

I can't play it but if you want to go all out, blue bells of Scotland

[@tynanmcgee8624]

I don't know about audition pieces, but other solos I have done are the morceau symphonique, andante et allegro, the sulek sonata, and ballade by bozza (I can send a link of myself playing that as well if wanted). Not sure how great these are for auditions but they're a lot of fun to work up and perform.

[@MrJosemedina2933]

joseph bongon yesss Morceau Symphonique

[@pixelator9002]

@@thezestyxeno7884 that one is amazing

[@isaacschmeichel]

@@tynanmcgee8624 I know I’m late, but did you get these from Jeremy Wilson? I know he’s happened to play all of them.

[@joseantonio73]

Muy bien bravo

[@tituscastillon3995]

That high note at the end.... Scary! How do you even play that??

[@tynanmcgee8624]

I practiced the run up to that note nearly every day for a couple months haha

[@lancegarcia8513]

Just relax all parts of your body, the speed of the air, and practice it with metronome, im from Philippines that note called [DO] in my country if you learned in concert key its a Bb

[@Spicy_Zach]

Pretty sure I sang in this room the year after this... terrible acoustics. but great playing sir

[@skatestuf]

Where can I find the piano accompaniment sheet music?

[@tynanmcgee8624]

I don't remember myself, but according to another comment here it's an arrangement by Donald Hunsberger that's included in the book Carnaval: 11 Solos for Cornet and Piano. I'm not sure if that's the exact one from this performance, but if it's not, it'll be close.

[@Chris-xs5oc]

What level is this

[@ace-rt2yp]

Where'd you get the sheet music

[@tynanmcgee8624]

It was quite the process; with the help of my parents we tried contacting Bob McChesney's agent and after some back and forth got a PDF of the sheet music from him along with written permission to use it at the state contest. If you want the PDF I can try and link it later.

[@ace-rt2yp]

@@tynanmcgee8624 jeez sounds like a lot for it, thanks dude

[@tynanmcgee8624]

@@ace-rt2yp No prob, before I got an "official" copy for the contest I actually just used the KZbin video McChesney uploaded which has screencaps of each half page of the music to practice. Also, another thing to mention is that the music for the piano part is completely separate and comes from a different book that I don't remember the name of.

[@ace-rt2yp]

@@tynanmcgee8624 why couldn't it just be for sale 😂😂😂😂

[@tynanmcgee8624]

@@ace-rt2yp Right? Would be way easier haha

[@Yoshi2x]

Not bad.

[@error_gaming2023]

bass troombone?? is that

[@tynanmcgee8624]

It's not, it's a Bach 42! Just a regular tenor trombone with an F attachment :)

[@tengu9045]

He skipped the theme

[@tynanmcgee8624]

I skipped the theme and all the piano interludes to fit the time constraint of 8 minutes for this performance.

[@santa7858]

Mire practice

[@Kodywit-AK]

This is under tempo

[@chrishernandez113]

Yes it is, maybe because he’s in high school and played it memorized but yes it is

[@Kodywit-AK]

Chris this was from a month ago lol

[@anthony-pj6xn]

Smiley Face ok

[@CSRookie]

what are you a kazoo player?