

Play the sound clips below and compare them to the sound that your trumpet is making.ĭon’t get worried about learning the note names today, just get started by identifying the notes and then playing some simple bits of tunes. Let’s figure out what note is coming out of your trumpet. Next: Figure Out What Note You Are Playing If you still don’t get a sound jump over to this other post and then come back here to learn some melodies. It’s a bit like kick-starting your sound. The idea is to let the air-pressure out by removing your tongue from that position. If you didn’t get a sound at all do it again but start with your tongue in the place behind your teeth where you would if you were saying “T” or “L”. If you got a sound, check below to see what that sound was. Take a big breath and let it out through the Trumpet.That same squeaky sound gets a whole lot better with a mouthpiece and a Trumpet attached to it. That grip requires some tension at the ends and some flexibility in the middle. Your lip is meant to vibrate like a wide blade of grass in that grip that some people can do with their hands.Use the muscles at the ends of your lips to keep your lips together (but not puckered out) and place the mouthpiece in the middle.

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How to Get Any Real Note Out of a Trumpet That’s a frustrating experience for you and the mission here is to shorten the time it takes to get those right notes coming out. Most school band methods start with learning a note on the trumpet that the teacher wants to call “Concert F” or “Concert Eb” …but you’re here because those notes are not coming out of your instrument.

If words like grumbly or flabby or gross are good descriptions of how you sound on the trumpet right now read on – we’re going to fix that. 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. It’s time to learn how to play a note on the trumpet.
