TRUMPET & FRENCH HORN
On this page you'll find help with things such as putting your instrument together, taking good care of it, using a fingering chart, and a fingering review game!
"HOW-TO" VIDEOS FOR STARTING ON YOUR INSTRUMENT!
TRUMPET Step 1
Opening the case; naming the parts.
TRUMPET Step 2
Parts of the Trumpet
TRUMPET Step 3
Making your first sound ("buzzing")
TRUMPET Step 4
Holding the Trumpet
TRUMPET Step 5
First Note: How to Play E!
TRUMPET Step 6
How to Play "Hot Crossed Buns"!
Our 6th Note (G)
Our 7th Note
Our 9th Note!
Intro to Music Notation
Staff, Clef, Measures, Time Signature, Whole Notes, Whole Rests, Line and Space Notes, Br Lines, Double Bar Line
Half Notes, Half Rests and Repeat Sign
Review of Intro to Music Notation, and Half Notes, Half Rests and the Repeat Sign

Assembling the Trumpet
Assembling the F Horn
Getting Started on French Horn
How to Hold the French Horn
First Five Notes on French Horn
How to Play "Hot Crossed Buns"!
"HOW-TO" VIDEOS FOR TAKING GOOD CARE OF YOUR INSTRUMENT
Trumpet Care
Trumpet: Oiling Valves
French Horn Care
French Horn Care
How to Use a Fingering (or Slide Position) Chart
Watch this video on how to use the fingering (or slide position) chart in the back of your lesson book AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TEACH YOURSELF new notes!!!
MusicRacer is a FUN note name and fingering game...and it's FREE! This video explains how to use it.
This app helps you strengthen your ability to recognize notes on the staff and to remember the fingering (or slide position) you need to play those notes. Organized in 3 increasingly challenging levels. What level can you make it to?