![]() ![]() The conductor gave me the hairy eyeball but wasn’t quite sure what to say so he started again. I was pretty sure that I was playing great and yet the opening to Meyerbeer’s Coronation March from “The Prophet” sounded all kinds of wrong. I was enjoying playing the loudest instrument in the group at that first rehearsal until things went terribly wrong. My high school band director had sent me there – probably to bring me down a peg or two (see Trumpet Jokes). ![]() My introduction to transposition came in our city’s youth orchestra. Let’s assume that you’ve looked at the Types of Trumpet page and read the paragraph on transposition there, and that you’re here because you want to know more about it or perhaps because you’ve been hit in the face with it. Given that pretty much everyone starts on a Bb Trumpet (or Cornet) we’re all transposing right from the start anyway.ĭepending on what your teacher said to you in those very first days you might be aware of that fact, you might not. ![]() Eventually everyone with a trumpet will find that they have to play what they know to be wrong notes so that they sound like right notes. Some of us stumble into transposition accidentally and others are hit with it in the face. You’ll be glad when your conductor drags you through something high and long for the umpteenth time. If you start this early in your career you will only have a few notes to think about – do it. When you are faced with a note that is higher than you can comfortably play you should force yourself to play it down an octave rather than forcing yourself to squeak it out. It might be the first good reason to learn the note names. The ability to look at a part and play the notes down an octave is a crucial survival strategy that virtually all Trumpet players use. Some composers, some arrangers and definitely some band teachers don’t seem to understand just how difficult it can be for beginning Trumpet players to play higher notes. We have to start with the easiest and most important transposition for all Trumpet players and the only one most players will ever need – down an octave.īy the time you hit your second year in school band some of you will need this transposition. While we’re fooling around with Bass Clef I feel the need to tell a Viola joke. ![]()
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