Category: How to Play Trumpet
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Trumpet Lesson #3
This post is just a place to put the print music for TrumpetHeroes Trumpet Lesson #3 so that you can read it in a larger format or print it so that you can play along with the tunes.
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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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Music Teachers’ Corner
(This Post is nascent and will fill out as time and topics permit.) This Post is intended for school Music teachers – mostly those who might have Trumpet players in their classes. Some of the topics are specific to dealing with those Trumpet students and others are more general but I felt the need to…
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Trumpet Learning Resources: Helpful Links for Beginner and Developing Trumpet Players
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…
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Trumpet Lessons: Finding a Trumpet Teacher for Private Lessons
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…
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12 Things I Can Do to Improve My Trumpet Playing
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…
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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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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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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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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 Practise: What to Practise When There’s “Nothing to Practise”
“Nothing to Practise” on the Trumpet….? …Pants on Fire? If you are an interested parent and the young player in your house claims that they don’t have any trumpet practise to do, be patient. It’s not like your child is lying, it’s just that they’re wrong. There is always something to practise and once their…
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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…
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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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Trumpet Fingering Chart
There are three Trumpet Fingering Charts here because we’re doing this on a “need to know” basis. The third one is where you’re headed but don’t start there if you’re a beginner. You should need the second one pretty soon if things go well. Start with the first one so you’ll understand what you’re doing.…
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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…