Scores for trumpet beginners.
I would like, need, some practice stuff for beginner trumpet.
Everything I have found so far just has too large a range.
I cannot reliably get past the first octave yet.
I am a bit lost. I've been to the 'groups' and found the brass group but apparently there's no discussions.
I was going to ask them.
I've been to 'scores' and searched but the system's idea of 'beginner' and my reality are very different.
Perhaps 'score' at this level is the wrong word? Maybe just 'sheet music' ?
Can anyone help with a link maybe or suggestions? Even a book I should buy maybe..
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You won't find them here on musescore.org
Hi, I have this score, it is not for beginner, but it is fine https://musescore.com/user/7245146/scores/14621260
In reply to Hi, I have this score, it is… by Raymond Wicquart
@ Raymond
Hi, and thanks much for that. Eye opener for me. Because I'd never seen a trumpet score before. Cripes, imagine counting all those bars before coming in with your dah di dahs.... :) I'd be sure to get lost.
Nice to have it. :)
You don't need music specially written for trumpet to get a feel for the instrument but you will need books later on. Start with some simple folk tunes as these are generally written in a range that most amateur musicians can manage on a variety of instruments.
In reply to You don't need music… by underquark
@ underquark
thank you very much for those.
Yep I play anything I can get my hands on. I've never been so limited on an instrument as here though - one octave makes it hard and I dislike having to break off halfway through a piece because I can't make the C5, say.
I have quite a lot of sheet music but I find it difficult to find any pieces that stay within my range or confine themselves to just making occasional call for an A4 or even the C5 which is the best i can do when I'm running hot. :)
So I guess what I was hoping to find was not so much pieces as perhaps exercises. I have a few books on the trumpet and they let me down, too. I'm using bugle call music as a makeshift.
Whole problem will go away once I can handle up to the D5,E5 I reckon. There'll be stuff everywhere I can do.
On top of old smoky and Land of hope and glory are two I have that work as a f'rinstance of what I'm finding. Got them from organ books. :)
p.s. I just now printed them out and looked at them. Wonderful little swag. Thank you. :)
In reply to @ underquark thank you very… by abrogard
"Whole problem will go away once I can handle up to the D5,E5 I reckon. There'll be stuff everywhere I can do."
Eh, no, you will be very limited until your range is C4 to G5. You need a teacher, and practice, for that. Then - depending upon your music genre - you will need to work down to a G3 (without sounding like a foghorn) and up to C6 with accuracy (without squawking out a Bb5).
On the bright side, if you're determined you will soon be playing more adventurous stuff. Bix Beiderbecke is said to have taught himself by listening to music from passing steamboat bands and to have become pretty proficient within a matter of months.
In reply to "Whole problem will go away… by underquark
I play whatever but I guess old standards would be main and the best way to put it. Massive amounts of stuff that doesn't get to the G I think.
I think Bix might be somewhat above and beyond anything I'll ever reach. :)
In reply to I play whatever but I guess… by abrogard
Don't underestimate yourself. I started playing (at age 9) because I went along to a brass band session with my brother because I had nothing better to do. They handed me a cornet and the first note I hit was a G5. I ended up playing soprano cornet (Eb, highest instrument in a British brass band). It was a long summer with no money and nothing else to do (apart from fishing) so I had transposition down by about the third week (I did "The Mallow Fling" in many different keys) and was performing with the band after about six weeks (3rd cornet, lots of multi-bar rests and notes below C4).
Key to success? - Obsession. Do nothing but read, play, practice (maybe bathe once in a while) for a couple of months.
In reply to Don't underestimate yourself… by underquark
Yep. I understand all that. It's what I see life as largely being and I see it as good. It is the way I live: according to my obsessions. I call them 'my enthusiasm' or 'what I'm into right now'.
I think I've got a good estimate of myself: a realistic one. I'm the born dilettante. I like to get into everything/anything and can generally make some sort of a job of it. But I am rarely good at it and never excellent.
And I have no specific talent I ever found unless that is it: to have wide interests.
You had/have talent. Good for you. Excellent. Transposition down by the third week. You mean transpose at sight I guess? And doubtless you were playing by ear almost from the beginning? My friend you ARE a musician. I fiddle with instruments.. and enjoy it..... but we're very different people...
hey... best regards, eh ?