I was curious if you fellow trumpet players think that memorizing all the major and minor scales and learning to play them to the point of muscle memory is important? Should I make this skill a necessary part of my regimen? I love to play but that stuff is very boring to me. Do you guys know it to the point where if someone says to play that piece of music in a different key you know automatically what to sharpen or flatten?

The scales and chromatics keep appearing in alot of music, and if you memorize something, you can play it alot faster, and a bit easier.

I can play 10 major/minor scales and can chromatic up to 3 octives, and after alot of trained thought,it can get pretty easy to just state the exact notes in any key. (alot of thought)

I agree with the person above me. Although they are not a necessary skill, they are a tool to help you know exactly what to do when you see that specific key. if it is boring try memorzing one or two scales a week until you have them all. Then go back, and try two octaves, or faster, or transpose a short exercise to that key and try to play it. Just remember, a tool to help you, not something which you absolutely need.

Andrew and Joseph are right, it does help 2 know the scales, but if u r not extremely serious about it son`t bother.

I think it is very important to know them ALL! Especially in Jazz improvisation. You want to be able to look at a chart and the chord changes and have the nesscisary tools at your fingers (scales, patterns, ect..). Also this helps in sight reading.