How to Play a B Minor Scale on a Trumpet

Video Transcript

"We're playing some more scales, and now we're going to be talking about minor scales. Major scales and minor scales are different. They sound different, and they have a different feel. A minor scale has kind of a sad feel, and it's made for making, I would say melancholy sounds, sad sounds. If the person who is writing the music or playing the music wants to make it sound a little sadder, you play a minor scale in the key that everyone else is playing. This is a common minor scale; it's a B minor scale, and it's going to be played on Trumpet. (Plays scale.) Now you can see that sounds a lot sadder than, say, a major scale where the scale, where the notes are not flatted in certain areas to create a sad feel. (Plays scale.) That would be the B minor."