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Historical Trumpet
Routines and explanatory videos for my natural trumpet students
I will keep adding our routines to this page, but use what we cover in lessons as extra to playing through the standard repertoire.
If you are practising alone, get a tuning device to sustain a middle A (if you are playing in D major). If not, remember it goes sharp up top, and flat at the bottom, so the 2nd trumpet is most likely to be the most in tune player out of the three of you (well, let's hope).
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Hear the difference between a truly natural trumpet and a "vented" baroque trumpet.
Although no instruments exist from the 17th and 18th century with holes, the concept is based on mention of such a device in the treatise by
J.E. Altenburg in 1785
2.
Fantini style lip-bending
Best used as passing notes, this is good training for general intonation, lip strength, flexibility, and tone control
3.
Credo from Bach's B Minor Mass
Don't judge people by their ability to do this on YouTube short clips, go and hear them live, it's much harder.
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