![]() We teach the chromatic scale at the second beginner level. The second scale we learn in my method is the chromatic scale. We are talking about Tonalization Studies over those scales. So please keep this in mind as you read through the rest of the list. We practice ALL “scales” using that same system of patterns. The Tonalization Studies are not only for the major scales. ![]() To read a blog post about all the benefits of practicing the Tonalization Studies, click on the following button: The Tonalization studies are just as important for ear training as they are for technique. These scale pattern studies are better for your musicianship because they train you to think in the different keys and to hear the keys better. Instead, we practice a system of scale patterns that I call the Tonalization Studies. Keep in mind that in my method, we don’t practice “scales”. This is because a great majority of music is written in the 12 different major keys. This is a very big part of the accumulative philosophy. We are very organized about the way we learn the scales and how we continue to grow them after we learn them. Something else worth mentioning here is that scales, in my method, are part of the overall “Art of Accumulative Practice” philosophy. But the important scales on trumpet that you need to know are all covered here. There are more scales than just these and some of my most advanced students may learn them in their lessons. So here is the complete list of scales on trumpet, according to my method. It is my hope that, by the time you learn the major scales and the chromatic scale, using the expansion studies as an introduction, you will understand the concept well enough not to need a book for the other scales. This concept works for ALL scales on trumpet, not only the scales for which we have published expansion study books. Please keep in mind that ALL of the scales on trumpet are best learned when you introduce them first via the expansion study approach. But in this post we are going to talk about what order to learn the other types of scales. You can get to that post by clicking HERE: Best Order to Learn 12 Major Scales. I recently published a post that talks about the order that beginners should learn their major scales. Most trumpet students begin with C major scale because it has no flats and no sharps. Chromatic scale trumpet how to#The field of competition was STRONG, including Craig Morris who later played first trumpet in the Chicago Symphony for two years.Scales are an important part of learning how to play the trumpet. She tied for first place at the Competition, but in my mind, she was clearly the best trumpeter there. Michelle had paid her dues - she told me that while she was at the University of Illinois she played the ENTIRE Clarke Technical Studies EVERY DAY for TWO YEARS! I asked her how long that took - she said about an hour to play all 49 pages because she didn’t take all the repeats. ![]() After all, what is a piece of music? It’s scales (or scale fragments) and chords combined with different rhythms. Michelle told me, “I agree with Rafael Mendez - if you know all your scales and chords, it shouldn’t take you long to learn the music.”īrilliant! And so obvious that I never saw it. I didn’t really understand what I’m telling you until 1995 (I was 34 years old and had been playing trumpet for 24 years) during a conversation with Michelle Kaminsky at the Moscow International Trumpet Competition. ( Piano practice of scales and chords is just as helpful as playing them on trumpet, particularly playing them from memory: you can see what you’re doing and it doesn’t make your lip hurt!) If you identify the scale/chord but haven’t practiced it, there are no practice memories for you to access.
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