O Come All Ye Faithful Trumpet Trio

O Come All Ye Faithful

Trumpet Trio

MTR 0333 4151

By John F. Wade, Frederick Oakeley, F.W.

Arr. Eddie Lewis

Celebrate Christmas with this festive arrangement of O Come, All Ye Faithful for trumpet trio.

O Come, All Ye Faithful is one of the most popular of all the Christmas carols. This original arrangement of the carol is majestic and has fanfares in the second verse, announcing the birth of Jesus with great bravado!

The first verse introduces the melody in a sostenuto style. There is a modulation to a new key in the second verse, where all the fanfares begin. The last half of the second verse is in a maestoso style.

Trumpet Pro Skill Level

We put the skill level for O Come, All Ye Faithful at the Trumpet Pro level because of the range and flexibility. The fanfare section is also technical in nature with sixteenth-note arpeggios.  

Practice Recommendations

Most of your practice time should be invested into the fanfare section of the arrangement. We recommend triple tonguing the sixteenth-note triplets with the T-T-K pattern and not T-K-T, for stylistic reasons.

We also recommend practicing from Eddie Lewis’ Trumpet Chops Pro book so the first part will present no problems. A few weeks of practice from that book and this arrangement of O Come, All Ye Faithful should be no problem at all.

About the Trumpet Pro Skill Level

The Trumpet Pro skill level is the fifth skill level in our system. This skill level has exercises and music up to high C. There are many other considerations in this skill level but that is the most obvious.

To find more music for this specific skill level, search our other publications for the word “Trumpet Pro” in the title or descriptions. We publish books and compositions for students at the Trumpet Pro level that we believe you or your students will truly enjoy.

O Come All You Faithful Free Trumpet Play-Along

We have a free trumpet play-along for this trumpet trio arrangement of O Come, All Ye Faithful in our You Play First Chair video series. The original purpose of the series is educational. Trumpet students from around the world are using these play-along videos to practice their sight reading. But the videos also offer a wonderful opportunity for trumpet players to try these sheet music compositions and arrangements before they purchase them. To access the play-along video for O Come, All Ye Faithful, please click on the following link:

https://youtu.be/ElefD4ybKkY