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Comment on Most Common Trumpet Beginner Mistakes by TrumpetHeadquarters

TrumpetHeadquarters — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:03:26 +0000

In reply to Ed Bartholomew. It's so helpful and really changes your mindset over time. Good luck!

Comment on Most Common Trumpet Beginner Mistakes by Ed Bartholomew

Ed Bartholomew — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:15:27 +0000

Will be starting warmup with a middle C from now on..!

Comment on How to Improve Your Upper Range on the Trumpet by Larry Peltz

Larry Peltz — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:39:12 +0000

Estela,
I love how you write and teach. Your solid information delivered with a great wry sense of humor, which I appreciate so much. I think of many of your great images, and can’t help but laugh. Also, I very much appreciate when you share about your own struggles, like four months to get tongue arch for upper register notes. Gives me hope.
😉

Comment on How To Build Endurance So You Don’t Get Tired Fast When Playing Trumpet by TrumpetHeadquarters

TrumpetHeadquarters — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:57:57 +0000

In reply to Mhmd Tarefi. Awesome! I'm glad you found the info helpful! -Estela

Comment on How To Build Endurance So You Don’t Get Tired Fast When Playing Trumpet by TrumpetHeadquarters

TrumpetHeadquarters — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:57:33 +0000

In reply to Michael. I'm glad you found it helpful Michael! -Estela

Comment on How To Build Endurance So You Don’t Get Tired Fast When Playing Trumpet by Mhmd Tarefi

Mhmd Tarefi — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:12:34 +0000

very very helpful article ! !
Thanks, Great tips

Comment on How To Build Endurance So You Don’t Get Tired Fast When Playing Trumpet by Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:16:29 +0000

It was helpful to me

Comment on What is Concert Pitch? by Larry Burriss

Larry Burriss — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:43:51 +0000

The original post from a few minutes was missing a line. It should read

but the sheet I got said Bb cornet / concert pitch / C = C.

This missing part was originally in brackets, and somehow was deleted from the original message.

Comment on What is Concert Pitch? by Larry Burriss

Larry Burriss — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:37:12 +0000

For years I’ve thought this transposition thing is unnecessarily confusing. Middle C on the piano is 261 Hz. The sound of Middle C on a Bb trumpet is valves 1 and 3, 261 Hz. But I don’t know how many trumpet players have told me, “No, that note on the scale you think is Middle C is actually Bb, 220Hz.” When I ask why, I’m told “because it’s a Bb trumpet.” But it doesn’t matter what the instrument is, a C is 261 Hz.

I’ve been told, innumerable times, that if I’m going to play with others, I’ll need to transpose the music. No, I won’t. I just played in a quintet at church: My Bb cornet, a Bb trumpet, an alto saxophone, a euphonium and a clarinet. When the minister (the Bb trumpet player) was arranging a variation of the standard “O Come All Ye Faithful,” I told him I wanted my sheet to be in concert pitch. He looked at me a little funny, but the sheet I got said . Low and behold, when I played Middle C on the score (valves 1 and 3), my C matched everyone else’s C Middle (261 Hz).

On several occasions I’ve taken a piece of music, lowered it a couple of steps to make it more comfortable to play, given a copy to my pianist, and guess what: my Bb cornet Middle C (valves 1 and 3) sounded just like the Middle C on her piano, 261 Hz.

I’ve also been told this kind of thinking will mess up all of the method books. No, it won’t. Suppose the lesson is a series of quarter note – eighth note – sixteenth note patterns, with notes C – D – E. The fingering will simply be 13 – 12 – 2, rather than the needlessly transposed 0 – 13 – 12.

Comment on Playing High Notes On The Trumpet: Reality Check by TrumpetHeadquarters

TrumpetHeadquarters — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:00:48 +0000

In reply to Ken Saul. ABSOLUTELY!