I agree....why are high notes so important...what ever happened to tone? Ask any professional trumpet player, and they`ll all say the same thing. Tone is the most important. I`m a professional trumpet player, and that`s what I say.

hey jermy wats up its jake i agree with your concept you must be good at tone and articulation before you try to play higher I am learning the hard way from that beacause my tone is not that good!
peace easy!!
jake

hey! ive been playing trumpet for about 5 years now and i have a pretty good range, but what`s the point of having good range if you sound like crap? Screaming is good, but totally overrated.

I play the F Horn and the trumpet for marching band and what really bugs me about the trumpets at my school is that they think that they are really cool because they can play high so they SCREAM the notes when we`re setting up. Then when we`re playing, they miss their cues and laugh about it. High notes aren`t everything.

i agree that playing high isn`t the best thing
you can do...but i do think it is awesome...

woot woot for Wayne Bergeron and Doc Severinsen. I like to scream but the mouthpiece switching gets on my nerves and i hate it when people that are young think that just because you can make the pitch come out of your trumpet means you hit the note. I like to scream to show off that i can scream and play with a big sound unlike most other trumpeteers who scream and sound like chipmunks on parade. I use a bach 1.5c for jazz and i can play up to a double c with a good sound that is something that if i heard someone else do... i would be impressed

i forgot to mention onmy last post that i can play legit music. i made all state this year for alabama and i can play hard passages and scream so i think it`s fine to scream because i also work on playing music AND using the screaming in really hot jazz songs but not in everything

well lets here it derek copy it over to me and illsend you my dubble c that is IF you have it ofcoares

hey I`m a sophomore trumpet... just wondering if anyone has any good tips on range... see I just changed my embrochure (long story but basically I was playing too far down and to the right) so now my mouthpiece is centered again, which is a good thing. See the problem is that before I switched, I had a high E, maybe an F if I really stretched, however now i`m struggling to get the B out... I`ve tried playing with more air, i`ve tried tightening my lips more, and just about everything I can think of but my range wont go back up... Granted it`s only been 3 weeks or so since I switched and my trumpet teachers says my range will go up, but still it`s frustrating... just wondering if anyone else has gone through the same thing or has any tips... Thanks!

Question, why is it so hard for yall trumpets to play long easy notes when like the clarinets and saxes could play long notes all day and sleep at the same time.

And ya they can go higher than trumpets to. Initaily, they can only go as high as thier instrumnet can, but then they can actually hit the dam notes and sound GOOD hard idea for trumpets I know. But like the pros with them can go like 5 octaves into overtones its crazy. Of course the good trumpits can to???

you want a recording of me playing a c or the e? Let me get out my recording equipment and once i get it set up i"ll do it. might take a few days. haven`t done any home recording in a while and i`ll have to find my crap. lol

a note on range... for the Concord Blue Devil`s Audition requirements on their site, the highest you need to have in an audition for lead player is an F above the staff... that should say enough about needing those doubles and triples.

woot woot for the blue devils too. they`re awesome. but just because that`s all they need doesn`t mean that that`s all anyone will ever need. for example... Blast! their lead trumpet needs to be able to walk into an audition without warm up and be able to hit an f above the staff with out any bobbles or notes before it. and that`s just the audition. they`ve got lots of higher stuff. especially for the baritones. they`re playing the same pitch as a trumpets double c which means it`s their triple c. that`s awesome

well, they`re audition scale (you can find it on their website) is a chromatic scale up from first space f to f above the staff. But yea, range is definately a plus, nohting against it

i recorded the high e and now i`m trying to find out how to put the clip online