If you aren’t adjusting some notes with your 3rd valve slide (and 1st if you have one) the it’s time to start. If you’re working for speed – and eventually you should – make sure that you are snapping the valves down hard and letting them up fast. There is a lifetime’s worth of notes on this page if you get creative. When you have a scale under your fingers and sounding good try a variety of articulations: tongue every note, slur all of them, slur groups of two or four notes etc etc etc. That’s when it really helps your playing get “next level”. If you can get any scale moving steadily, try to memorize it. It’s a really useful scale for warming up and working on finger agility.Īlso see this Blues Scale sheet for Trumpet. By the second year of playing most band teachers want to hear you play the one that appears on the bottom of the sheet. Trumpet minor scales will be added if there is a lot of activity on the Major Scales.Ī Chromatic scale is pretty much playing the fingering chart and you can start it anywhere. If it doesn’t sound like the old “Doe, a deer, a female deer” kind of Do Re Mi major scale then you’re missing something. Some of these keys might seem unlikely to appear in your Concert Band, but if you play in a group with string players or singers you’re going to need them. If you haven’t yet learned any music theory you might want to take note of those key signatures and how they relate to the starting notes (tonics). The major scales above are in order of key signature, so you’ll probably want to start in the middle and work your way out into the sharps and flats. You’ll have to scroll way down to the heading “Concert Pitch”. If that’s confusing then you haven’t got the business of being a transposing instrument figured out. You’ll also see, in a box above each scale, what they are called in the real world (of your band teacher’s mind). So, the first scale on the sheet is your Eb Major scale. Scales are referred to by their starting notes. Major Scales for Tpt Download Bonus Fun Facts About Scales on Trumpet for the Keen Reader.

Concert c flat major scale trumpet