His mellow trombone tones are great! However, imo in trumpet imitation Tom Thum is the best. He even does the growl and imitates the different trumpet timbre matching the trumpet dynamics (more brassy and more mellow tones), pretty accurate legato transitions and a matching vibrato
No joke, for the first 30 secs of the vid I was rubbing my eyes so I couldn't see the video, but during that time I 100% believed that guy was playing the trumpet. The musicianship here is astounding
Errr no you can. For example to gliss from an Eb to a Bb (above) you'd go 3 2 1 5 4 3 2 1, you quickly jump to the 5th to play the Gb of the gliss and continue up. There's always gonna be a lil stop but if you get good it still sounds like a gliss -source: 8 years of trombone
@@cashsi5843 If there is any break between two parts of the gliss, then you have 2 glissandos, that's why they're called impossible. Btw when you play an impossible gliss, instead of stopping, bend the F into a flat Gb when you move from 1 to a little beyond 5 keeping the airflow constant. If you go straight from 1 to 5 you'll lose all the microtones between F and Gb which is noticable and if you stop or change your air for any amount of time that's also noticable. but that's beside the point, you can't make the break between glisses completely unnoticable, and that's just a limitation inherent to the instrument. -souce: 11 years of trombone
Wait, this is the guy that sings that really low note, the subharmonic C or what you all versed in music theory call it? He also mimed instruments this perfectly?
Its actually not too hard to slide from Ab (3rd position) to Eb (7th position + lip bend down half step), but good luck sliding 2 whole octaves on a trombone haha
@@Snookbone it comes up a lot in this type of music since that 1-5 or 5-1 gliss is common, but people dont usually care about tone as much for this stuff its mostly improv anyway
Amazing, you hear 3 sustains, and a beautiful bass gliss all the way down and everything just forms together perfectly when the bass hits his finishing note . I love sounds so much.
There’s a big difference between being a singer and a musician… yall other musicians probably know this and as a vocalist I will 1000% stand by that statement. This man is a musician, and a mindblowingly talented one at that
This makes perfect sense, a singer, pianist or whatever might be someone who just plays it but a true musician is someone who puts their heart and soul into their instrument, and the instrument is a part of them
@@joelpandess2346 no. Any singer and instrumentist is a musician. There are terrible musicians, bad musicians, mediocre musicians, good musicians, great mudicians... But all of them are musicians.
@@Ignasimp Well, anyone can sing or play an instrument. Arguably, talking normally can be considered singing, and hitting your head on the wall can be considered playing an instrument, but obviously neither are musical. It can be strongly debated what constitutes "music" or "musicianship," but I like to say that music is an emotional performance of cleverly-layered audio, and that musicianship is the artistic application of emotion in the context of music. Then, a musician is simply one how applies musicianship to music. Whether you agree with my definitions or not, they do distinguish music from artistic sound effects; I think we can all agree that in most contexts sci-fi laser sounds aren't to be considered music. Applying my definitions to this conversation-and assuming my definitions are "good" definitions-musicianship doesn't actually have anything to do with caliber. Since musicianship is the artistic application of emotion, I argue that you can sing off-key, out-of-tune, off-beat, and otherwise terribly and it still be considered musical. (On occasion, singing in a manner that is typically considered poor may in fact be an artistic expression of emotion, and it may even be intentional.) Rather, what I think the other commenters are arguing is that often times, professional or popular "musicians" often think of music more as something they have to do for a living than as a passion for expressing themselves. In my opinion, mainstream music is terrible about this; they often care more about the popularity of being a celebrity than their music. By my definitions, this is not "music," and this is not "musicianship;" therefore, those singers and instrumentalists do not meet the definition of being "musicians." Whether you agree with me or not is entirely up to you, but this is my argument for why not all singers are musicians.
As I was told glissando is a transition That goes like That G#2 - G2 - F2 - Eb2 - C#2 - C2 - Bb1 - G#1 (switch between chest and subharmonics). In this case Ken does a portamento switch. So it's an unnoticable switch between chest and subs, while continuing going down.
What's really incredible about this is you can hear him add a small "bump" where a trombonist would typically have to change partials in the middle of those glissandos. Listen to the difference between the E natural -> Ab gliss VS the Eb -> Ab gliss. It's such a minute detail for a vocalist to recognize but he did and executed it excellently.
Ken Turner. WOW. I discovered this legend from this channel’s “When you hit puberty twice” series; Ken’s subharmonics are truly eargasm-worthy - and it seems he can also do trumpet and trombones! 😂
I love you're transcriptions, keep them coming! It impressed me on you previous transcriptions, but you have incredible hearing to hear those last notes :o
I can't help but imagine him practicing this before he got good at it and everyone around him being completely dumbfounded by why he would do something like that only for him to finally preform, leaving everyone in complete shock
What Mr. Turner does with his air trumpet is astounding. What he does with his air-trombone can't be put into words. Every nuance of his trombone is emulated perfectly. If you close your eyes, you would assume there is someone holding and playing an actual trombone. It is scary! Not to mention his pristine glissando that ends with a seismic shock that likely registers somewhere on a richter scale. What a talent!
To be honest his trumpet is not bad but you can hear him strain his voice, but his trombone is simply perfect, even if you know that this is his voice you can't even distinguish it from the genuine instrument. That is simply unbelievable...
![Bass singers subharmonic compilation [Bb1-B0]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-XTQJbKdfyY/mqdefault.jpg)
yes thank you for pointing it out, i dragged the wrong key signature over, this is of course in Ab so four flats!
Or the singers are tuned differently lol
Stop changing titles of videos or we can't find them again. Really annoying. Pick a title and deal with it.
@@dominicgervasio2548 you deal with it +ratio
@@j5g5c28 try that sentence again?
@George Collier are you Jacob's brother?
That is probably one of the best fake trumpet and trombone sounds I have ever heard
fake?
@@123482625 fake as in it didn’t come from an actual instrument it came from his mouth
His mellow trombone tones are great!
However, imo in trumpet imitation Tom Thum is the best. He even does the growl and imitates the different trumpet timbre matching the trumpet dynamics (more brassy and more mellow tones), pretty accurate legato transitions and a matching vibrato
@@123482625 you’re an npc
I mean, Queen did a good job on Seaside Rendezvous
This guy has a better sound than I do, and I play trombone
xD
Same 😥
Idk how that guy made those sounds but wow. And same, I also play trombone and this guy sounds just like I was playing. WITHOUT AN INSTRUMENT
@@korakes me too
no tongue starts gave him an advantage haha
No joke, for the first 30 secs of the vid I was rubbing my eyes so I couldn't see the video, but during that time I 100% believed that guy was playing the trumpet. The musicianship here is astounding
As a brass player myself, the trombone was even more impressive!
@@fruitnationalist Earl Okin also does a great mouth trumpet. Check out "Mango" or "Bessie".
@@fruitnationalist WOW that's impressive
@@fruitnationalist wow thanks for that link that was amazing
His trumpet it is alright, but his trombone is way better
The best part about his trombone impressions is that those glisses are not possible on a trombone
I wouldn't know, I've never played with an F attachment. 😔
You need to practice more
@@reubena7854 it's a limitation of the instrument. you can gliss between any note within a partial, but not notes between partials
Errr no you can. For example to gliss from an Eb to a Bb (above) you'd go
3 2 1 5 4 3 2 1, you quickly jump to the 5th to play the Gb of the gliss and continue up. There's always gonna be a lil stop but if you get good it still sounds like a gliss -source: 8 years of trombone
@@cashsi5843 If there is any break between two parts of the gliss, then you have 2 glissandos, that's why they're called impossible. Btw when you play an impossible gliss, instead of stopping, bend the F into a flat Gb when you move from 1 to a little beyond 5 keeping the airflow constant. If you go straight from 1 to 5 you'll lose all the microtones between F and Gb which is noticable and if you stop or change your air for any amount of time that's also noticable. but that's beside the point, you can't make the break between glisses completely unnoticable, and that's just a limitation inherent to the instrument. -souce: 11 years of trombone
His mouth trombone is actually nuts
It‘s actually just his mouth
(sry for the bad pun)
@@phrogstan9584 lol 😂
Ken Turner is the vocalist we all aspire to be
And will never be🥲
Oshit, that’s the guy
I wondered if that was him
in 'rainbow of love' with the crystal river boys, his lowest note literally opens a portal to hell, chilling to see and hear
Wait, this is the guy that sings that really low note, the subharmonic C or what you all versed in music theory call it? He also mimed instruments this perfectly?
Everyone here talking about the trumpet and trombone sounds. The gliss at the end was like falling off a cliff. Absolutely mind blowing.
Yes that gliss made my feel something in my stomach lol
I legit thought I was hallucinating when I heard it
I was expecting the empire to say You may fire when ready after that bass drop
A rainbow of love, one might say.
@drumdude10
🤣
0:34 the look of joy/laughter he gets spotting someone in the audience either laughing or applauding or both at his air trombone is just everything.
I just had the same experience as you, 2 years later!
More Ken Turner? Don't mind if I do!
This epic bass glissando helped me understand who created the sound of the Death Star laser loading for launch.
You may fire when ready
My first thought exactly.
Commence primary ignition
God it's that guy xD not only can he sing so low, he also imitates the trumpet! Awesome!
Just so you know, his name is Ken Turner!
Certainly a great live performance by Ken in his early years!
Damn I just knew this guy as being insanely good at subharmonics, didn't know he could do mouth trumpet and trombone so well too
He played the trombone better without one than I ever did with one.
A lot of people don't know that this guy is also the dude who does the insanely low subharmonic bass singing in the song "Rainbow of Love"
I can't stop listening to that song bro
J D Sumner?
@@horseman4now no his name is Ken Turner, but he does kinda look like JD Sumner! Also can sing sub harmonically just like JD sumner
I knew I recognized him!
Ironically, most of those glisses aren't possible to play cleanly on a trombone
Its actually not too hard to slide from Ab (3rd position) to Eb (7th position + lip bend down half step), but good luck sliding 2 whole octaves on a trombone haha
@@hotdogskid I mean I'll try
@@hotdogskid that would kill the tone quality and so wouldn't be clean
@@Snookbone it comes up a lot in this type of music since that 1-5 or 5-1 gliss is common, but people dont usually care about tone as much for this stuff its mostly improv anyway
Especially the very last one.
Amazing, you hear 3 sustains, and a beautiful bass gliss all the way down and everything just forms together perfectly when the bass hits his finishing note . I love sounds so much.
Wtf is this even possible? I forgot people can be so good at things
The mouth. You'd be surprised of what sounds can come out of it
Wtf the trombone sound is so authentic the he somehow figured out how to do the subtle breaking sound that a trombone makes going between slides.
Please do a “you can’t play lingus on a banjo” some named Matt played Cory Henry’s solo and it’s real sick
Here's the link.
ua-cam.com/video/UbTMmFjig_c/v-deo.html
i love lingus and matt is a real legend
Thanks for making me discover such a weird and awesome musical moment :D
Holy crap, that was dope
Drop this submission in the discord
That Glissando at the End is 100% what the death star sounds before firing.
What an incredibly talented man, and as I've heard, a lovely one too.
This demonstrate that musicianship is in the person not in the instrument.
For sure.
Ken turner is a blessing
I just love how stoked he is about performing.
I love how he's always like that. Nobody has ever enjoyed singing as much as Ken Turner.
"Damn, I forgot my instruments!"
This guy: "Hold my beer..."
That is the most bad ass glissandi that I have ever heard
Seeking single man, well dressed, close with his friends and has an earth shaking low register. Ability to play fake instruments a +++
I’m honestly kinda jealous as a trombone player because trombones can’t gliss between partials, so an Ab to an Eb like he did would be impossible.
and on top of that he's an amazing bass
I’m crazy happy cause I requested this transcription like two weeks ago ☺️ mr George lowkey made my day
When your band director tells you to sing your part
Can we just appreciate his face when he starts on the trombone? He's having the time of his life
Ken Turner, the best bass ever, but also the best trombonist
That low caught me off guard
I love how you expect the last gliss to end an octave higher than it does
Once again proving that the human voice is the pinnacle of musical performance capability
Once again proving that God created us. Praise God!
idk, there are some incredible birds out there.
me and my homies love ken turner round here
There’s a big difference between being a singer and a musician… yall other musicians probably know this and as a vocalist I will 1000% stand by that statement. This man is a musician, and a mindblowingly talented one at that
This makes no sense.
This makes perfect sense, a singer, pianist or whatever might be someone who just plays it but a true musician is someone who puts their heart and soul into their instrument, and the instrument is a part of them
@@joelpandess2346 no. Any singer and instrumentist is a musician. There are terrible musicians, bad musicians, mediocre musicians, good musicians, great mudicians... But all of them are musicians.
What
@@Ignasimp Well, anyone can sing or play an instrument. Arguably, talking normally can be considered singing, and hitting your head on the wall can be considered playing an instrument, but obviously neither are musical. It can be strongly debated what constitutes "music" or "musicianship," but I like to say that music is an emotional performance of cleverly-layered audio, and that musicianship is the artistic application of emotion in the context of music. Then, a musician is simply one how applies musicianship to music. Whether you agree with my definitions or not, they do distinguish music from artistic sound effects; I think we can all agree that in most contexts sci-fi laser sounds aren't to be considered music.
Applying my definitions to this conversation-and assuming my definitions are "good" definitions-musicianship doesn't actually have anything to do with caliber. Since musicianship is the artistic application of emotion, I argue that you can sing off-key, out-of-tune, off-beat, and otherwise terribly and it still be considered musical. (On occasion, singing in a manner that is typically considered poor may in fact be an artistic expression of emotion, and it may even be intentional.)
Rather, what I think the other commenters are arguing is that often times, professional or popular "musicians" often think of music more as something they have to do for a living than as a passion for expressing themselves. In my opinion, mainstream music is terrible about this; they often care more about the popularity of being a celebrity than their music. By my definitions, this is not "music," and this is not "musicianship;" therefore, those singers and instrumentalists do not meet the definition of being "musicians." Whether you agree with me or not is entirely up to you, but this is my argument for why not all singers are musicians.
This man was and still is insane.
Ken Turner, an absolute treasure.
i think a transcription of the OG polyphonic singing video by anna maria hefele would be a good video
That's a great idea! Such an iconic video
@@KingTurnell "You can't sing two notes at once"
Who needs actual instruments when you have this guy
Can we all just appreciate Ken Turner for a minute a absolutely perfect bass voice and now this
Ken turner is one of the best bass singers I’ve heard. Never thought he could also do this lol
This guy is an amazing talent AND hilarious, what a performer
I love how even though you can't quite hear him, the bass still sticks around.
Ken Turner... One of the Deepest voices of all time!!
As I was told glissando is a transition That goes like That G#2 - G2 - F2 - Eb2 - C#2 - C2 - Bb1 - G#1 (switch between chest and subharmonics). In this case Ken does a portamento switch. So it's an unnoticable switch between chest and subs, while continuing going down.
Ken Turner has been getting a lot of coverage on this channel, and i'm all for it
I love how old videos can so perfectly mesh irredeemably corny with incredibly talented.
The first 808 bass drop
Ken Turner is a sacred music monster
man these old songs are true gold… gives you good vibes
What's really incredible about this is you can hear him add a small "bump" where a trombonist would typically have to change partials in the middle of those glissandos. Listen to the difference between the E natural -> Ab gliss VS the Eb -> Ab gliss. It's such a minute detail for a vocalist to recognize but he did and executed it excellently.
The vocal tank himself, love Ken Turner.
Ken Turner was amazing, always a smile lurking and always having fun on stage (:
His trumpet was good, his trombone was wow! and that glissando was perfection.
when choir plays your instrument better than you, and they don't even play the instrument
Damn talented dude that Ken Turner, also with the crazy bass voice.
Ken Turner. WOW. I discovered this legend from this channel’s “When you hit puberty twice” series; Ken’s subharmonics are truly eargasm-worthy - and it seems he can also do trumpet and trombones! 😂
I literally played this for Mardi Gras this year. It was a short version for marching band but it was so fun to play!!
Ken Turner is always fun to watch as well as listen to.
ive seen alot of vocal tricks in my day, but this is just so well done !
I love ken turner so much. He has so much fun performing
At first I thought "is that Ken Turner??"
Then the last note hit
Classical Beatboxing
When you leave your instrument at home
Thanks for video. It's a the best buzzing I watched!
Woah..................
GOOD GOD THATS SO WONDERFUL
Wow... that's just amazing
Do yo play the trombone?
This guy: Well yes, but actually no.
Trumpet sounded so cute!!
The title of your videos is restoring my faith in humanity
I was playing this in my loving room and my mom looked over from the kitchen and said, "He's really good at trumpet."
This is what we've been waiting for
I love you're transcriptions, keep them coming!
It impressed me on you previous transcriptions, but you have incredible hearing to hear those last notes :o
I actually love your channel so much
i would believe that the world is finally healing when this kind of mastery gets the praise it deserves.
The original beatboxer
He's the guy that hits the incredible low note in another video
So this guy hit puberty twice and then decided to become an instrument himself. Damn.
BEST BASS DROP AWARD!!!!
That guy is having some serious fun rn
I did not know of Ken Turner until I found your channel. Now I respect the man immensely.
And a moustache so crisp that is probably the comfiest ride in town
Ken Turner is an actual legend
I can't help but imagine him practicing this before he got good at it and everyone around him being completely dumbfounded by why he would do something like that only for him to finally preform, leaving everyone in complete shock
Ken Turner never ceases to amaze me.
I love how the sound fades and phases
damn! I was already very impressed by the beginning of the vid!
I bet his fake fart sounds are amazing.
What Mr. Turner does with his air trumpet is astounding. What he does with his air-trombone can't be put into words. Every nuance of his trombone is emulated perfectly. If you close your eyes, you would assume there is someone holding and playing an actual trombone. It is scary! Not to mention his pristine glissando that ends with a seismic shock that likely registers somewhere on a richter scale. What a talent!
this channel has become a Ken Turner fan page and I'm totally here for it
To be honest his trumpet is not bad but you can hear him strain his voice, but his trombone is simply perfect, even if you know that this is his voice you can't even distinguish it from the genuine instrument. That is simply unbelievable...
The slide to the A1 is so clean, what tone too
Depression cured. :)
Hats off to all the amazing talents out there that I've never discovered.