How to Use a Fingering Chart
You can learn how to play almost any note on the trumpet if you can read a fingering chart. Your band book has a small fingering chart each time it shows you a new note. There is also a master fingering chart in the back of your book.
Reading a fingering chart is really simple. The chart has circles for each valve that you press. If a circle is colored in, you press that valve down. If the circle is NOT colored in, that finger stays up. Remember that your LEFT hand goes around the vavle casing and your RIGHT thumb goes between the first and second valve. Make sure you make a triangle with your hands, wrists and elbows.
Here are some examples of fingering charts:
Reading a fingering chart is really simple. The chart has circles for each valve that you press. If a circle is colored in, you press that valve down. If the circle is NOT colored in, that finger stays up. Remember that your LEFT hand goes around the vavle casing and your RIGHT thumb goes between the first and second valve. Make sure you make a triangle with your hands, wrists and elbows.
Here are some examples of fingering charts:
What do these notes sound like???? |
The notes on the trumpet sound different than the same notes on the piano. If you play the note E on the trumpet it sounds the same as the note D on the piano. D on the trumpet sounds like C on the piano and C on the trumpet sounds like Bb on the piano. Do you see the pattern? Each note on the trumpet sounds the same as the note ONE LETTER NAME LOWER on the Piano!
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