Category: How to Play Trumpet

Here are some links to websites/videos that are helpful resources for beginning trumpet players: (I’ll try to keep adding to this list as I come across things.) Trumpet Scale Sheets There are several scales on this (trumpetheroes.com) site: A Concert Bb Scale (starts on C) Several major scales (and a Chromatic Scale) Some blues scales…

This article is all about finding a Trumpet teacher for private lessons. Why Bother With Trumpet Lessons? Have you ever noticed that some of the best players on a sports team happen to have a parent who’s coaching that team? I grew up playing and watching hockey and am old enough now that when I…

This is a copy of the Post: 12 Things I Can Do to Improve My Trumpet Playing which is directed at young Trumpet players. This version, however, has been edited for Band teachers. Some of the information here is presented differently but is essentially the same. If you’re an experienced brass player there might be…

12 Things that can make a big difference to how well you play the Trumpet in your Band. These are the things that I see and hear in schools all of the time and most of them are easy to fix if you want to play well. In most Band classes there just isn’t the…

There is a melody below with 24 notes in it. There are 16,777,215 ways to arrange 24 things, and notes can be all over the place. Granted, several are the same note so that cuts things down somewhat but you get the idea. To complicate things, though, there are some notes in the tune that…

This post is intended for students in their early years of Trumpet playing who want to make a better sound on their Trumpet. You might be here because your school music teacher said something about your tone or because you’re hearing something about the sound you make that isn’t as good as you’d like it…

Here they are … a few simple, short tunes written out for beginning Trumpet players who just can’t yet play those upper notes that the Band Method Book at school wants you you to play. The point of these tunes is to get you playing something that sounds like a melody while you’re just getting…

So, how do trumpet valves work? Let’s look at the mechanism that made the Trumpet able to play all of the notes encompassed in the player’s range. This also applies to valves on tuba, euphonium, a variety of Drum Corps instruments and so on. (The general principles also apply to rotary valves on French horns,…

This article lists trumpet part names, shows which names refer to which parts, and provides a description of each part of the trumpet. Here are the most basic parts of a trumpet: Mouthpiece Valves Bell While these are the main major parts of a trumpet, there are lots of little details and finicky parts to…

It’s time to learn how to play a note on the trumpet. If your Trumpet is working, you’ve tried hard and still can’t get anything good to come out of it, this post is for you. If words like grumbly or flabby or gross are good descriptions of how you sound on the trumpet right…

Here are the notes you need to play blues scales for trumpet. Some ideas about how to use them follow the scale sheet: B Flat Trumpet Blues Scales These scales are transposed for Bb Trumpet, or any other Bb instrument with similar range. The first one is your C blues scale, but it’s referred to…