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 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:50 pm
biggrin Here is my list. Dont have to love. Just what i think helps me when i was a begainer.
My teacher is always complementin me on my awsome tone. Try to arrange your lips differently inside the mouth peice and it should sound different. If you sound fuzzy keep trying try to get rid of all of the fuzz in your tone. Play low to start of your day. We play something called Rimington. Have you played it? Its pretty much just starting at g and taking half steps down. you know G 2 F sharp then go back up G 2 F Natural And keep going down to the low G. It warms me up with out hurtin.
Then I slur from Low C to Middle G to High C To High E. Witch are all open. Then i try to tounge them. It may be hard to slur at the begaing if you are a begainer like it was for me but if you keep tryin you will get really good and have a awsome range. Right now im in marching band and am in highschool. Hope you like my tips. sorry its long haha. But it should help feel
Feel free to add me if you have anymore ?'s i love to get comments and make new friends!
Peace and love,
Geeksmileitsme (Katie) heart
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:41 pm
Hey Hey! I have a question! So, I got my trumpet at the begining of the school year, but the thing is, I just cant seem to make myself practice. I want to, but.... I just dont have the will. I am busy at home so dont yell at me too much. I just a wittle middle schooler. Do you have any tips for me? sad
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:53 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:04 pm
try to make it a competition with something good as a prize. tell the other people in ur section that you are having a contest with a prize. whenever someone practices, they have to get their parents or some adult to sign that they did. who ever practiced the most in a week or somethin wins. if you could win something good, then you might wanna practice more.
but idk if thats good....
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:09 pm
byakuya_legend Hey Hey! I have a question! So, I got my trumpet at the begining of the school year, but the thing is, I just cant seem to make myself practice. I want to, but.... I just dont have the will. I am busy at home so dont yell at me too much. I just a wittle middle schooler. Do you have any tips for me? sad i have that problem too. for some reason when i read La Corda D'oro(manga) i wanna go practice. sadly my trumpet is usually at school when i do. try that. plus it's a good manga.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:08 pm
Furuba fan101 byakuya_legend Hey Hey! I have a question! So, I got my trumpet at the begining of the school year, but the thing is, I just cant seem to make myself practice. I want to, but.... I just dont have the will. I am busy at home so dont yell at me too much. I just a wittle middle schooler. Do you have any tips for me? sad i have that problem too. for some reason when i read La Corda D'oro(manga) i wanna go practice. sadly my trumpet is usually at school when i do. try that. plus it's a good manga. A good thing to have (a doubt many begginners would have this but if you can pull it off go for it) 2 trumpets. Of course your nice trumpet would stay at the school. Go out and buy a piece of s--mediocre trumpet that doesn't cost much. That is what I have. Some kind of begginger yamaha. It doesn't sound good and can make it hard to hit higher notes, but if you have a trumpet at the house you will be more willing to practice. Another thing is not to take your trumpet home, but take only your mouth piece and stick it in your pocket or somewhere near you at all times. That way you can buzz. (Stick your pinky alittle infront of the whole on the opposite of the mouthpiece to create alittle resistance and just play without the buttons.) You will learn that you can hit every note, but will have to practice because you have to hit it with your lips and not your fingers. If you buzz though and practice that way you will notice an immediate advancement to the sound when you play on your horn. Oh. And practice slurring for those that want to play higher. Right now I am a junior in high school and can play the "F" concert (Which starts on low g) chromatic 3 octives. Just 3 more full steps and I will be able to hit super C (two octaves above the staff c)
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:50 am
DarknessAssylum A good thing to have (a doubt many begginners would have this but if you can pull it off go for it) 2 trumpets. Of course your nice trumpet would stay at the school. Go out and buy a piece of s--mediocre trumpet that doesn't cost much. That is what I have. Some kind of begginger yamaha. It doesn't sound good and can make it hard to hit higher notes, but if you have a trumpet at the house you will be more willing to practice. Another thing is not to take your trumpet home, but take only your mouth piece and stick it in your pocket or somewhere near you at all times. That way you can buzz. (Stick your pinky alittle infront of the whole on the opposite of the mouthpiece to create alittle resistance and just play without the buttons.) You will learn that you can hit every note, but will have to practice because you have to hit it with your lips and not your fingers. If you buzz though and practice that way you will notice an immediate advancement to the sound when you play on your horn. Oh. And practice slurring for those that want to play higher. Right now I am a junior in high school and can play the "F" concert (Which starts on low g) chromatic 3 octives. Just 3 more full steps and I will be able to hit super C (two octaves above the staff c) no. having two separate horns is not good. at least not in the way you imply to use them. you should practice on the horn you will perform on. you shouldn't leave your good trumpet at school and your "crappy" trumpet at home so you can practice on it. if you do that, you will sound better on your "crappy" trumpet than you do on your "good" trumpet because you practice on your crappy trumpet. if you try to perform on a different horn than you practice with, your sound will be greatly diminished because you're trying to either compensate for something that isn't there, or you're not used to compensating for something that is there.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:55 am
toco clarinet DarknessAssylum A good thing to have (a doubt many begginners would have this but if you can pull it off go for it) 2 trumpets. Of course your nice trumpet would stay at the school. Go out and buy a piece of s--mediocre trumpet that doesn't cost much. That is what I have. Some kind of begginger yamaha. It doesn't sound good and can make it hard to hit higher notes, but if you have a trumpet at the house you will be more willing to practice. Another thing is not to take your trumpet home, but take only your mouth piece and stick it in your pocket or somewhere near you at all times. That way you can buzz. (Stick your pinky alittle infront of the whole on the opposite of the mouthpiece to create alittle resistance and just play without the buttons.) You will learn that you can hit every note, but will have to practice because you have to hit it with your lips and not your fingers. If you buzz though and practice that way you will notice an immediate advancement to the sound when you play on your horn. Oh. And practice slurring for those that want to play higher. Right now I am a junior in high school and can play the "F" concert (Which starts on low g) chromatic 3 octives. Just 3 more full steps and I will be able to hit super C (two octaves above the staff c) no. having two separate horns is not good. at least not in the way you imply to use them. you should practice on the horn you will perform on. you shouldn't leave your good trumpet at school and your "crappy" trumpet at home so you can practice on it. if you do that, you will sound better on your "crappy" trumpet than you do on your "good" trumpet because you practice on your crappy trumpet. if you try to perform on a different horn than you practice with, your sound will be greatly diminished because you're trying to either compensate for something that isn't there, or you're not used to compensating for something that is there. Yeah, but to add on to what Toco said each horn plays differently. Notes can be sharp or flat because of the instrument, not because the whole instrument is out of tune, and it will only be one note. The out of tune notes are diferent for every instrument. For example, my open g is cnstantly flat, while my friend's is rarely flat, and my Eb is sharp, while my friends is flat. This doesn't change if we switch instruments. My instruments g would be flat and hers wouldn't, etc. So you have to practice on your performing instrument in order to get better. If you practice on a different instrument, then it is likely you will not "know" this instrument well enough to know all the sharp or flat notes. Also, every isntrument feels different. The way an instrument feels can influence the way you need to play it, so again you need to use your good performing instrument to know the feel of it ad know how to play it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:35 pm
ClarinetGoddess toco clarinet DarknessAssylum A good thing to have (a doubt many begginners would have this but if you can pull it off go for it) 2 trumpets. Of course your nice trumpet would stay at the school. Go out and buy a piece of s--mediocre trumpet that doesn't cost much. That is what I have. Some kind of begginger yamaha. It doesn't sound good and can make it hard to hit higher notes, but if you have a trumpet at the house you will be more willing to practice. Another thing is not to take your trumpet home, but take only your mouth piece and stick it in your pocket or somewhere near you at all times. That way you can buzz. (Stick your pinky alittle infront of the whole on the opposite of the mouthpiece to create alittle resistance and just play without the buttons.) You will learn that you can hit every note, but will have to practice because you have to hit it with your lips and not your fingers. If you buzz though and practice that way you will notice an immediate advancement to the sound when you play on your horn. Oh. And practice slurring for those that want to play higher. Right now I am a junior in high school and can play the "F" concert (Which starts on low g) chromatic 3 octives. Just 3 more full steps and I will be able to hit super C (two octaves above the staff c) no. having two separate horns is not good. at least not in the way you imply to use them. you should practice on the horn you will perform on. you shouldn't leave your good trumpet at school and your "crappy" trumpet at home so you can practice on it. if you do that, you will sound better on your "crappy" trumpet than you do on your "good" trumpet because you practice on your crappy trumpet. if you try to perform on a different horn than you practice with, your sound will be greatly diminished because you're trying to either compensate for something that isn't there, or you're not used to compensating for something that is there. Yeah, but to add on to what Toco said each horn plays differently. Notes can be sharp or flat because of the instrument, not because the whole instrument is out of tune, and it will only be one note. The out of tune notes are diferent for every instrument. For example, my open g is cnstantly flat, while my friend's is rarely flat, and my Eb is sharp, while my friends is flat. This doesn't change if we switch instruments. My instruments g would be flat and hers wouldn't, etc. So you have to practice on your performing instrument in order to get better. If you practice on a different instrument, then it is likely you will not "know" this instrument well enough to know all the sharp or flat notes. Also, every isntrument feels different. The way an instrument feels can influence the way you need to play it, so again you need to use your good performing instrument to know the feel of it ad know how to play it. Ahh. I am sorry. I didn't mean that you should only practice on that Trumpet. I personaly take my good trumpet home with me to practice. I should have reworded that, but thank you for fixing that for me.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:15 am
Adding on to the two horn discussion, I'd like to say that I've only got one trumpet but playing on other horns using my mouthpeice has seriously messed me up. It took me three days to get used to one trumpet while mine was sent off, and another time it took two competitions (counting the practices that morning, the warm ups, and both preformances for one, and then all the semi-finals stuff and such) to get used to a trumpet so similar to mine.
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