Thanks in advance
-Noah Fraser

Yes, some say that the pedal tones are important when improving high register. Personally I think that it's important to gently expand your register in both directions but not by sacrificing the middle register tone quality. That's the register you'll mostly use anyway. Long tones are good for this. If you're interested in improving your high register, you might want to check out the Carmine Caruso -method.

I use pedal tones mostly for recovering when practising. They relax the lips nicely.

These are only my personal opinions and the best way is to study the different approaches and choose the one that works for you the best.

Big salute!!!

- Greg

Yes, this is correct. As you kind of stated in the title your post, the trumpet is a bb -tuned instrument (there are others, but this is the most common). Here's a quite good explanation: http://library.thinkquest.org/10693/Bb.html

So, if you play from a concert pitch sheet, you'll have to traspose everything a whole step up.

Otherwise I can understand you very well.

I'm sorry, I didn't get the raspberry metaphor :)

Then I left for work missed anything from a few months I started to study assiduously, spurred by the fact that two of my grandchildren have started to study music, a trumpet and the other the piano, I play with them.

If you're a "comeback player", you might want to check Rune Aleksandersen's Comeback Trumpeters Guide (click here for the .pdf version).

I appreciate the effort and patience that you used to enter all this information in making your site public showings of your knowledge is truly a beautiful thing.

Well, this site is my thesis and my graduation is my reward :)

I hope you find the exercises useful, I'm planning to continue to maintain this site and adding new exercises every now and then.

It's been a while so I thought I'd share some of my thoughts with you (does anybody read these?).

As some of you may know, this site is my thesis, or a part of it, as mentioned in the about -page. Well, I have now finished the report part of the thesis so from now on this site is just a hobby of mine. I've had some very encouraging comments about the site in other trumpet discussion forums and I will definitely keep adding the exercises whenever I have the time for it. As also mentioned in the about -page, my goal was to create the world's largest online trumpet exercise database and it still is. There aren't many of those so this could well be achieved (but not by sacrificing quality to quantity).

Unfortunately my time is limited so I'd like you to tell what kind of exercises would you like to see here? A while ago I added some major scale mode exercises and I'm planning to do similar exercises for the melodic minor scale modes. Also, there are none of minor ii-V patterns, that's also next on my todo -list. Adding some more of the major II-V exercises wouldn't hurt either (btw, would you like to hear the chord progressions behind the II-V -patterns? There could be two audio examples, with and without the accompaniment). There are also still some empty categories (etudes, chord arpeggios, etc.) that need to be started.

We have a nice amount of members here (growing by few members a week). Still, very few of you have added any exercises here but that's ok. I'll take your membership as a support for this site so keep on joining! That way I know that people really use this site. There's one thing that you could help though: there are many (native) english speakers as members so if you see any grammar errors (I'm sure there are!), please correct them if you have the time.

• Updated the Welcome -page and moved the exercise -menu from there to its own page.
• The metronome now comes along when scrolling down.
• Added scales and chords sections. I'll add some exercises for beginners to get familiar with the basic scales. At the chords -section, I'm planning to do some leading tone -exercises for different chords etc.
• Discrete ads at the bottom of the page to cover the costs of custom domain. These will not be shown to the site members.

Edit: ads removed

When you add an exercise, a new page will be created and already existing pages won't be edited. Therefore you are free to experiment — if something goes wrong, the page can be easily deleted and you can try again.

If you don't have a sound example for your exercise, it can be added afterwards by you or somebody else. You can add a new exercise here. If you have any questions, mail me.

I'll do that. I'll also add the categories I listed above (the reason I was wondering whether to add them or not is that they're more general music theory than trumpet related exercises).

If a number of the pages in the other/misc section are related, I create a new section then and move them in. If they're unique, they stay where they are for the time being.