All I need is my trumpet, and my mouthpiece, and my mute, and my….wait. Why do I need all this stuff? Am I going to spend a fortune on stuff I don’t need? Every trumpet player will need a few things to support their playing. Yes, a place to practice where you aren’t disturbing people is great. More important, is keeping your horn performing it’s best and accessories that help you perform your best.
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How to choose a flugelhorn mouthpiece A trumpet mouthpiece and a flugelhorn mouthpiece are different beyond the depth and shape of the cup. The biggest difference is that trumpet mouthpieces from every manufacturer will fit most any trumpet. Nice. Not so for flugelhorn mouthpieces. That would be too easy. The shank or taper is the narrow
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Just starting out with the cornet? If you or your child is just starting out you can often use a school’s instrument. That’s a goodness. The only thing that’s needed is a cornet mouthpiece. If that’s where you are, congratulations and welcome to the band ! If you’ve been playing for a while and looking
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Trumpet Music Online Trumpet Scales. Lip Slurs. Arpeggios. Pedal Tones. Arban. Clarke. Schlossberg. Exercises, drills, studies. Yawn. Don’t those sound like fun? Don’t you just love to practice those? Don’t get me wrong, if we want to get better, develop our range and endurance; we have to practice our trumpet with exercises like these. We
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How To Play Trumpet Down the bunny trail. Hippity hoppity. The “fix trumpet embouchure” bunny trail. Or is it the “how to make a trumpet embouchure” bunny trail? Does it feel like I’m stuck here? Well, yea. I had such high hopes of a “comeback”. To be able to play the trumpet at least as
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Welcome to the band ! This site is for new cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn and comeback players. For those just starting out, and those coming back. This site is about cornets, trumpets, and flugelhorns. You’ll find trumpet playing tips, instrument reviews, and accessory reviews. Doled out how we wished it was when we were starting out.We
We’ve collected various sources of trumpet sheet music and trumpet songs that you can use to see, hear, and play along to. You can play these with your cornet and flugelhorn too as some of these trumpet songs have softer melodies that sound better with a cornet or flugelhorn.
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Also known as “How to play trumpet at home – Episode 5” How To Play Trumpet Everyone is doing it and it sounds so easy. Learn a new language, like Latin. Learn to prepare gourmet meals with a can of beans and Spam. Rebuild your car’s engine. Learn to play an instrument. I took that
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How To Play Trumpet Well, here we are, end of the third week. Practiced everyday. Positives? By resting as much as the horn is on my face seems to let me practice longer. Sucky things? Found I have bigger problems than just relaxing my face. Something with my embouchure that is hard. Like never did
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How To Play Trumpet Comeback or Beginner Trumpet Player? 14 days in. Total practice time: 351 minutes. That’s about 25 minutes per day. I tried to break up my practice time into two sessions because I get tired so easily. But the afternoon sessions isn’t really worth talking about. That sounds like a total beginner player.
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