I can buy it from another person or just get from AliExpress. But does this at least sounds as trumpet?
Hey! I’m in uni and will be having roommates with me for the upcoming year and pretty thin walls. I really need to find a really good, essentially silencing mute because I hardly practiced last year due to the same thing. I was thinking to maybe even join some community band thing to try and have a day or so where I’d be able to play without the mute.
So , I just found an old king tempo for like 50 bucks and the place to put the ring seem not connected to slide . However , the little knob seem to help sliding. Should I slide it using my thumb or theres an other way around ?
Edit for futur lurker : The answer is simple , some old trumpet dont have one. The knob i was speakimg is not the place for a lyre( hole where you can put a screw) but the small one on the side of slide but my english is trugling this morning lol .
I've been a lifelong 3C player, using a gold megatone for orchestra and a 3C/E3 Marcinkiewicz for Jazz or solo lit.
Anybody have experience with something that has a larger rim and a shallow cup? Like a 1/2 D or something odd like that? What about the other direction and going into a 3A or 2B? I'm feeling frisky and looking to get wild here, so any advice or experience would be appreciated.
Hi!
I got myself a trumpet and I'm doing a bit of self study for the time being.
I've been playing clarinet for 15 years and I decided to expand my skillset for fun. I teach at a local music school and atm I'm the only wind instrument teacher.
I've been watching some beginner videos on the trumpet, and one of the creators mentioned how 7c mouthpieces stunt early growth in students. Lo and behold, every trumpet in my school's rental has a 7c 🥲
I do feel like the mouthpiece is a little too narrow for my mouth. I can somewhat easily play low C and G, high C is a real pain even though Bb is okay.
One exercise I saw recommended to do every day was to take out the mouthpiece and glide around the same range I'm playing on the trumpet. I have not been able to do it. I can't get a full glide on it and I actually have a smaller range on it than with the full instrument.
Suggestions and exercises would be much appreciated!
I've been playing trumpet for a few years now (8?) and I've always struggled with my range, recently I've found it isn't that I'm not putting "enough air" or not practicing enough, but my buzz just tops out at a C and then cuts out almost entirely. I can play the notes above C (sometimes haha) for a split second, but I then feel my lips stop buzzing. (well sometimes life will be good to me, and I don't have those issues but most days my range tops out at the C above the staff)
I know it's technically the same buzzing as down low, but I have no clue how to "fix" this issue or what to work on to keep my lips buzzing up there
Any help? Any tips are appreciated.
Went to a flea market and found a trumpet that I assume to be from the WWII era and probably in E-flat. Y'all have some guesses to what this could be?
Hello fellow trumpeters,
I've Had my braces for about 1,5 years now,and in about a month i'll have them removed.The Problem is,I got a lot of performances lining up.Back when I got my braces,I had huge problems with playing for the first ~3 months at least.Does anyone have an experience they might want to share,cause I NEED to know if the switch from braces to no braces has the same effect as the opposite.
Thank you in advance
I can play a solid dub F -> G# (F and f# for reference, please excuse tone cuz this was after practice)
But i can play them good outside of band / context but whenever im in band i cant lock in the partials hear the note, or even if i can my endurance is stupid bad where i cram it into my lips
Im section leader now, and for next band camp I dont want to increase my range, but rather to solidify my double F and G to be stupid loud in the band and assert my dominance (i can already do that with E and F in some cases but D and C are guarenteed)
Any tips to help me get to my goal and beat this problem? I also want to know how to keep these notes thrughout the WHOLE performance / game. I reallly want to lock in so I can for lack of better words flex on ppl that i AM a screamer (one more thing,i need help locking in the partials / accuracy so i can hit it and not feel my way around yk)
Edit: I also play on a yamaha 11b4. Know this doesnt matter but I def have the chops to be able to utilize a proper lead mp. Any suggestions for one? (Warburton preferred and bob reeves not necesarily bad but to thin for my lips if that makes sense)
Valves were stuck had to oil them with valve oil they would not move the front one sometimes gets stuck down and goes back up slow I think this trumpet has had a hard life i had to throw out the original case wen I got it it smelled terrible and one of the latches was broken on the case I think it has had some repairs as mouthpiece looks different from original and the where it attaches to the trumpet i think was soldered on and missing fingers ring on tuning slide and the top one has been removed i play it left handed even though it’s made for right hand playing sounds pretty good for a $50 fb marketplace trumpet that probably wasn’t played in years maybe even decades
I have been finally letting myself practice some higher ranged notes like C D E above the staff. I can hit consistently on all three, but it sounds less like other players high notes and more like screaming. I don't really feel like I'm struggling to get the note out either, any tips?
(edit: oops the title was supposed to be sounding like I'm screaming)
I bought my first trumpet today, but I cannot seem to play normal/higher notes. the highest note im able to play is the low F and that literally hurts my mouth. Also, when I try to buzz in the mouth piece I cannot physically go any higher. why is this? How do I train myself to play the normal/higher notes??
As far as I know, 5th overtone is approximately 13 cents off so it's basically out of tune for sure. Does trumpet players play in 5th overtone too?
I’ve been playing for about 5 1/2 now and it’s becoming more and more apparent that my trumpet sounds not like a trumpet to me. none of my friends have really brought it up to me so it might just be in my head. or theyre all just being nice about it. I’ve looked all over the internet and subreddit but every single video I found sounds like a trumpet. so I’m trusting a bunch of internet strangers to hopefully have any sort of idea on what I’m doing wrong.
This was sitting in a pawn shop for a year or so and they put it on clearance. Got it for a great deal.
I haven’t played with any regularity in 5+ years, but I have about a month to get ready to play Taps for a close friend’s funeral. I’ve played Taps a lot in the past and was pretty good at it. Any tips on what to do? Long tones, range exercises, etc? TIA.
Hi all,
I'm looking for a new case for my trumpet... I don't like the soft case that came with it, so I'm currently using the one that came with my first trumpet, a cheapo Eastar... but that case doesn't have any room for scores, mute, etc.
I can't really splurge hundreds of euros (I'm in France) but would like something solid and capacious so I don't have to carry a backpack everywhere as well!
Thomann is probably the best 'proper' place I can buy from that will be available in different languages, or if there is something actually decent on Amazon..
Cheers!
I always loved the sound of the trumpet but am intimidated by the technical aspect.
I am a jazz guitarist and play on a decently high level. That means timing, improv and harmony/theory are second nature already, so it would really just be a technical hurdle.
Can anyone give an estimate on how long it would take to play reasonably freely if I practice 1 hour a day? Improvising over easy tunes like Donna Lee, Cherokee, All the Things You Are etc.
Thanks for any guidance
this is my sister's trumpet, she recently complained about the valve slide moving when she's not pressing down on the valve. is it supposed to do that? and is there any way to fix it?
I saw this cool looking trumpet in a video featuring Wynton Marsalis’s birthday present. But I can’t find anyway to identify it.