r/trumpet

So my wife has been watching a lot of media where Mariachi players are shown. I love the sound of a Mariachi trumpet player and actually joined a friend who played in a Mariachi group way back in highschool. It was for a week and I learned a lot and had a ton of fun, didn't get the sound (I know a week isn't enough time)

I really wanna try and get close to that sound and since I'm an adult with some spare time I'd really like some tips or videos on how to get that sound. Plus when I'm paying in my jazz band it would be nice when we are playing latin pieces.

Also, I'm Hispanic so I kinda feel like I need to get in touch with that sound.

At 50, I decided to start playing the trumpet again after not playing it since I was a child. I bought a trumpet today and brought it home and couldn’t make a noise on it at all. Turns out that the guy who sold it to me had accidentally put one of the valves in wrong. I twisted it into the correct position and suddenly it wasn’t so hard to play.

I want to do a trumpet/flute duet with my girlfriend or a duet with my friend who play trombone. We're in high school, and I'm a bit more advanced than the two of them. I sound beautiful but my range isn't that great. Does anyone have any suggestions for duets?

I have a high schooler who's playing trumpet, she loves marching band, concert band and jazz band. I got her a used Bach Strad 37 from a friend of a friend for about 1k for her after 8th grade, she had been using a starter cornet up until then.

Current Situation:

My son is now playing trumpet (6th grade) as well, he's got her starter cornet and it's seen better days, so I assume he'll need an upgrade soon. And in marching band, my daughter's Strad just got some bell damage at the last marching band competition which really needs to be fixed. She's saying that everyone else has multiple trumpets, and she needs a 2nd, but I feel like the one she currently has should be "the nice one" and probably should get repaired and be kept indoors from now on, but I'm not sure what way to go forward, and what direction I should go to get different instruments for both of them without spending 1,000's of dollars. Any thought's suggestions? I know they don't need the best, but I don't want to hamper them by getting the cheapest things out there either.

I got this this shreyas flugelhorn from walmart because i wanted to learn a new brass instrument( i primarily play lowbrass instrument). now i know trumpet and flugelhorn are the same in terms of how the fingerings work and stuff but i have a hard time reading treble clef so i thought ill js read bass clef and figure out the fingerings as i got but then i discovered that while reading bass clef the fingerings were the same and the notes sounded the exact same as if i was playing euphonium/tuba if it was being read belowthe staff. like if i saw a B on the second line in bass clef and i hit 123 like i would on euphonium, it would sound the same. im js trying to figure out if thats normal or is this 80 dollar flugelhorn was made wrong.

I know this is a Trumpet forum, but im curious if anyone here has any exprience writing horn sections? I've done a lot of research on this topic recently but I still don't really ever like the result. I see some sources say to have the horn section play chord tones, some sources say stick to unison/octaves, some say do quartal voicings, some say add in extensions of the chord. I guess its a case by case basis, I feel like for big horn melodys, and stabs for Disco/Funk octaves and unison are probably the best way to go, but when it comes to voicing a horn harmony, I always end up going to chatgpt to ask for advice on which notes to have the horns play. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but just thought maybe some people here might have some widsom to share.

All of us at some point probably thought that “hitting the notes” was all there was to playing the trumpet well, but as we develop and we refine our attention to detail, we start to realize that playing the right note at the right time is just square one. What are some common issues you might expect from someone who can hit all the notes but doesn’t refine their sound any further? I’m hoping to get a list of things that wouldn’t otherwise appear on the sheet music — I see a lot of people get lazy with note lengths or doing the correct articulation, but the sheet music already tells you that you played it incorrectly.

I think intonation is an obvious answer, but it can be pretty hard to ignore that problem if you’re playing with other people. I think articulation clarity is a pretty big one. I have heard a lot of players who have decent chops but always have this crunchy sound at the front of their notes. For me personally, I’ve been trying to work on make my slurs a lot more smooth — I used to make it sound like I was crushing into the next note when slurring any somewhat wide interval instead of making it sound smooth and connected.

I’m very.much a beginner. I guess I’ve been learning about —10 months. I can play the right notes, at roughly the right time. What I really struggle with is the dynamics. predominantly controlling the volume. when I try and go quiet I just lose everything too easily, when i try and go louder I all too easily go up in pitch too.

Any tips/exercises that might help?

I'm a bassist, who really only plays classical bass at a very band heavy school. However, I keep getting asked to play in jazz ensembles even though I only practice classical, and I'm not very good at jazz. I've always like the sound of trumpets in jazz, so I figured if I start learning it and join a beginner combo, I'll stop getting asked to play jazz bass (or maybe i'll actually like it after learning trumpet).

I was wondering if there's a shop that sells used beginner instruments? Maybe in the like 200-400 price range? Thank you guys so much!