Category: Beginner Trumpet
Trumpet playing tutorials and tips for new beginner trumpet players
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Trumpet Spit Valves
… referred to as “Water Keys” by more polite folks. Let’s get that one out of the way right now. It is true that the vast majority of the liquid that comes out of those things is water. It was just moisture in your breath before it condensed on the cooler (probably room temperature, not…
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First Easy Tunes for Beginning Trumpet Players
If you’re new to this site WELCOME! Here’s a jumping off post for beginning Trumpet players looking for some easy melodies to play. These are mostly close our old friend – the Concert Bb major scale but there will be the odd one with a different note or a key signature just to keep you…
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How to Hold a Trumpet: A Beginner’s Guide
This topic is covered in my YouTube Lesson #1 at around the 5 minute mark but I’m happy to write about it too. If you’re watching Trumpet players you’ll see all kinds of ways of holding their instruments. Whatever way you grab the thing it requires that you be able to: The grip that I…
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Quick Mispitching Test for Beginning Trumpet Players.
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…
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LOW NOTE MELODIES for Beginning TRUMPET Players
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…
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How to Play a Note on the Trumpet (Fix a Low, Grumbling Sound)
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…
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Trumpet Notes: How to Play Notes on a Trumpet Right Now!
This is the emergency panic version of a much longer explanation of playing trumpet that lives on this other page. Relax, if it was easy everyone would be a Trumpet Hero! Read on to learn how to start playing some notes on the trumpet (quickly!). Leave the valves alone. Put the mouthpiece in the middle…
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How to Read Trumpet Notes: A Beginner’s Guide
Congratulations on a great choice of instruments! Now comes the work. There are lots of places to learn music theory and your school’s music teacher is going to help with that as well. If you got a band method book or access to a website from your school then start there so that you’re on…
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Learning Trumpet: Problems Getting Started
Here are some of the most common problems when getting started learning trumpet: Learning Trumpet: Common Problems Air won’t move through the trumpet at all. My valve is “wobbly”. Something is stuck in my Trumpet – I ‘m sure of it. I have braces. I can’t make a sound. It hurts to play. Air won’t…
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How to Play the Trumpet: A Beginner’s Guide
This is the place to start if you’re absolutely new or nearly new to the Trumpet. You can be a Trumpet Hero in your school’s beginning band class, in a marching band, in a jazz band or in a symphony orchestra. While this page is intended for beginners the idea is to get you off…