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ButchA
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:45 am Post subject: German Oom-pa style music... |
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I had a great time last night at the Shriners, playing trumpet (the ONLY trumpeter!) with the group called The Sauerkrauts over at the Shriners Temple.
It's just a small ensemble, and the other trumpeters had prior commitments, so I was the only one. I was scared to death playing alone and trying to sight read unfamiliar music for the first time, but I did it! Some of the pieces I knew and/or heard of, so I handled those okay, but wow... Has anyone played German Oom-pa music before? Some of it, you're acting like a french horn, playing on the off beat with 8th notes. But other times, you have melody while clarinets play harmony the the accordion guy plays along doing the melody and chords. Fun stuff!
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Grits Burgh
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Sounds like fun.
What instruments do you need for an oom-pah band?
Warm regards,
Grits
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ButchA
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Trumpets
Clarinets
Accordion
Trombones
Baritones
Tuba
Snare drum & Bass drum
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RandyTX
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It's basically a polka band. A lot of people in Central Texas make pretty good money playing that stuff, especially around Oktoberfest, due to a lot of German immigrants in the 1800s.
I think it's actually more correct to use cornets/flugels for that instead of trumpets, but the audience is unlikely to know the difference, especially after a sufficient amount of beer has been consumed.
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kehaulani
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And if I'm not mistaking, a lot of so-called American "Oom-Pa" music is Bavarian or Egerlander, not general German.
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Brad361
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| RandyTX wrote: | It's basically a polka band. A lot of people in Central Texas make pretty good money playing that stuff, especially around Oktoberfest, due to a lot of German immigrants in the 1800s.
I think it's actually more correct to use cornets/flugels for that instead of trumpets, but the audience is unlikely to know the difference, especially after a sufficient amount of beer has been consumed. |
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Yep, and some of those polkas are not easy, try sight reading (and transposing) The Clarinet Polka, at a wedding reception where the father of the bride was INSISTING every third song be a polka....accompanied by groans from pretty much everyone else in attendance.
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| kehaulani wrote: | | And if I'm not mistaking, a lot of so-called American "Oom-Pa" music is Bavarian or Egerlander, not general German. |
lol  be carefull with saying Bavarians are NOT Germans.... 
That's like saying Texans are not Americans... 
just kidding 
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kehaulani
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| Johnny-Highnote wrote: | | kehaulani wrote: | | And if I'm not mistaking, a lot of so-called American "Oom-Pa" music is Bavarian or Egerlander, not general German. |
. . be carefull with saying Bavarians are NOT Germans.... That's like saying Texans are not Americans... |
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