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

Lots of scale exercises on this page. from a Middle School site.

Minor Scale pdf from this School site.

YouTube videos by other Trumpet Teachers/Players that I like:

(These are links to just one video or page of many by these Trumpet players/teachers. Start with one of these and explore.)

For Beginning Trumpet players:

215th US Army Field Band on getting the buzz going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvDMwxwNpEA

Blackwells TrumpetBasics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPjoKlo6K4

Adam Meckler at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5hZ5ombwns

Scott Moore about Embouchure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0c6X03iKqk

Allison Jensen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blaljv27V5Y

Adam Rapa teaching his nephew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFeWJFvOn4

For Trumpet players who’ve been playing for a while and want to work on harder stuff:

This Adam Meckler video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfnnM2t011k

Robert Slotte’s site: https://mybesttrumpet.com. There’s a good page on playing Trumpet with braces.

Jon Ruff’s embouchure video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9bGUqlwcKc

For more experienced players who are getting serious about their Trumpet playing:

Stan Curtis’ site https://www.trumpetjourney.com/

Bryan Davis’ Videos from AirFlow Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQkc2hkdhNk

“The Trumpet Prof” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuinKKWLPNo

Charlie Porter’s videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLE_-ly8hrQ

Adam Rapa’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1Sh5SkadpCNBjWzjaHMP

Chase Sanborn on Pedal Tones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fXwzc9LR4

Arturo Sandoval on Pedal Tones (which he calls “low notes”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fl-y9vgzRU

Brian Shook on Pedal Tones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Z4cWWE_Vk

David Hickman on Pedal Tones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxArz5gotGg

“The Trumpet Prof” on Pedal Tones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuinKKWLPNo

Orchestral Trumpet Parts

This site has a lot of Orchestral Trumpet parts – many of them transposed, and a lot of really good links: http://la.trompette.free.fr. You’ll find it easier to navigate if you read some French, but you don’t really have to.

More Orchestral parts in the public domain: https://www.brassexcerpts.com/trumpet/downloads/

Most Orchestral parts are copyright “intellectual property” and can’t be shared or duplicated. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of publications available in print but only some really old ones on sites like imslp (the Petrucci Library). Other parts you might find in excerpt books if you’re lucky. The old standard books were the ones by International Music and came in about 15 volumes. A quick look around and I’m not too sure what’s happened to them. I think there are some new versions of these collected into larger volumes. More on this later. There are some other excerpt books around now like the Royal Conservatory ones or these ones.