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How to Play a B Minor Scale on a Trumpet

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Summary: Play a B minor scale on a trumpet; learn how with tips from our expert trumpet player and teacher in this free trumpet video music lesson on brass instruments.

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By J.D. Keating
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J.D. Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the music industry. In 2003 he...read more

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mattj7686 said

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on 3/30/2009 why are you only playing the flat 3? what about flat 6 or 7? this isnt natural or harmonic. What are you playing?

snowpeak said

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on 8/2/2008 very nice I'm a beginner and I allready play those scales as good as he is !!! Thanks but I want more something advanced :)

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"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."

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