Welcome to the Trumpet Guy Full Trumpet Course. This course contains everything that you will need to progress on the trumpet. If you are a total beginner, start from the very beginning of the course and then progress through the lessons in order. If you are more advanced, feel free to bounce around to lessons that you feel you need more work on.
Modules
Fundamentals
Lessons
- Choosing Your Trumpet and Mouthpiece
- Holding the Trumpet
- Tuning Slides
- Posture
- Basic Breathing
- Forming an Embouchure
- Buzzing and Making a Sound
- Developing Your Sound
- Tonguing
- Slurs
- Learning Scales
- Intonation/Matching Pitch
- Reading the Staff/Treble Clef
- Notes
- Basic Rhythms / Counting
- Dynamics
- Warming Up
- How You Should Practice
- Caring for the Trumpet
- Practice A: Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Practice B: Ode to Joy
- Practice C: Frere Jacques
- Fundamentals Summary
Intermediate Techniques
Lessons
- Intermediate Techniques Introduction
- Intermediate Breath Control
- Basic Double Tonguing
- Building Your Range
- Advanced Rhythms
- More Finger Dexterity
- Vibrato
- Going from Low Notes to High Notes
- Using and Tuning Mutes
- Chromatic Scale
- Preparing for an Audition
- Playing in Front of a Crowd
- Intermediate Play Along
- Intermediate Summary