In this video, I help you learn how to play the chromatic scale on the trumpet through a simple practice technique. You can also use this technique to learn any new scale that you learn.

Jazz Trumpet Lick #6 by Marquis Hill on "Straight No Chaser".
This jazz trumpet lick by Hill this week is very acrobatic...but extremely fun to execute. In the beginning it features daring leaps going to and from an A above staff. Then descends from there landing on a C below the staff. It's amazing that he executes this at a tempo either 30 or 40 clicks faster than where I can play it. I didn't provide the chords associated with this. ​

Jazz Trumpet Lick #5 by Dexter Gordon on "Second Balcony Jump".
This week’s lick is a short ii-V by Dexter Gordon. I enjoy the shape of this line because of Dexter’s use of back to back enclosures leading to chord tones. 
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Jazz Trumpet Lick #4 by Wynton Marsalis on "All the Things You Are".

​Here's another jazz trumpet lick by Wynton Marsalis that I’m working on this week. It's is a ii-V-I (in C major) that clearly outlines the harmony with variety of rhythms and syncopation. Man! Practice and listen how slick he emphasizes and uses altered notes in the V7 chord going into the one-chord. ​

The Jazz Trumpet Lick of this week is by Wynton Marsalis performing "All the Things You Are". 
The lick I’m working on this week is a two-bar passage by @wynton_marsalis : V7#5 (for one bar) to I major (for one bar) in 4/4. I copped it from a YouTube Video of him playing “All the Things You Are”. ​

This jazz lick utilizes the major bebop scale along with an arpeggio and some other scalar motion. ​

The jazz lick I’m working on this week is a two-bar lick in 4/4 time. It can be played in two harmonic situations: ​

I demonstrate and show you the fingerings for the concert Eb major scale, our F major scale.

In this trumpet lesson, I teach you how to play the F major scale on trumpet by ear.  We'll play two notes at a time until we finish this major scale. ​

I demonstrate and show you the fingerings for the concert Bb major scale, our C major scale.
In this trumpet lesson, I teach you how to play the C major scale on trumpet by ear.  We'll play two notes at a time until we finish the scale. ​

First I'll demonstrate then I invite you to play a long with me.

If you're not familiar with reading music, no problem! :) I walk you through a step-by-step process where you first learn the note names, the trumpet fingerings and right sound that goes with each note. Then you get to see what each note looks like on the treble clef staff. I believe this is a very efficient way to learn how to play notes on the trumpet.

​I show you the two skills you need in order to improve your trumpet sound.
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When trying to imitate your favorite trumpeter's sound from a recording it's important that you need to balance and blend to their trumpet tone. Doing this on a daily basis  awarded me with a characteristic trumpet tone early in my trumpet career.

Goal: Try to imitate how it feels to play like your favorite trumpet players with and  without the recording.

I show you how with a three step process:
1) Sing it
2) Buzz it
3) Play it