Category: Intermediate Trumpet
Trumpet playing instruction for intermediate players
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Trumpet Tuning and Intonation
This post is “in progress” more than most of the other ones. First off – You can spend as much money as you like and your Trumpet will not play in tune by itself. Second – Your Trumpet was built just a little short on purpose so your main tuning slide will have to be…
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How to Improve Trumpet Tone
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…
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Playing Second Trumpet – The Art of the Wingman
The second trumpet player, the wingman, has a special role in any group and there are some things that make it more difficult than playing the first part. The first player usually plays more, higher and more soloistic notes so it’s more physically demanding. The second (and/or third) player isn’t just a passenger, though. Any…
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Trumpet Embouchure: How to Recover from a Long Break
This post is getting too too late so its going out unedited – Laugh if you like. J Taking a Break from the Trumpet Oops! Did you perhaps take a day off from playing that turned into a week or a month or the entire summer? Life has a way of filling up our time…
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Trumpet Transposition: A Beginner’s Guide
It is the best of skills, it is the worst of skills. If the thought of trumpet transposition drives you to the winter of despair fear not – the spring of hope blah blah blah. That reminds me … it’s Spring here and the first Trumpet shoots are popping up through the snow! Introduction to…