How does the trumpet play soo many notes with only 3 buttons 

I was curious about this at 4am, thanks for answering!

Strings musician here. Always wondered about how trumpets work, so thanks for this. I imagine trumpet players are always doing a lot of “musical math” in their heads to know which note they’ll be hitting with any combination of valves, and that it becomes more intuitive over time. I played cello in high school and college (mainly play guitar these days, but have learned several other stringed instruments too) and find that on when I was playing, I was often thinking of the actual notes as I played them, whereas on something like guitar, I just go by positions more often (1, 3, 5, etc.) and only really think of the notes when I’m thinking about the theory side of things. Is trumpet an instrument where, like a piano, you are always thinking of the notes you’re playing (as I imagine you would need to do to know which note to “mouth” along with which valves to press in order to achieve any given note in a passage of notes), or do you just do it all intuitively at this point?

Holy shit! Not that I thought trumpet was easy, but you're basically vocalists, too! That's so nuts!!

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Amazing! Thanks for answering, I was wandering about that for a while

Thanks very helpful. And sounds so nice!

very interesting, thanks for making this video

Thanks again brother

Very insightful 😮

Thanks brother

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Finally, a video that makes sense. Using a valve should increase the length of the pipe that the air travels through, and therefore lower the tone. But every other video seems to show learners that their first 5 notes will be ascending, and that pressing the buttons accomplishes this. I just don't get it! I'm planning to buy a trumpet and have a go at this!! I'm also confused as to why they call the first note low C, when it sounds like Bb?

Thanks

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong but I think that all notes can be played without the use of any valve, the valves come in handy when the player wants to quickly move through notes in a phrase, so for instance instead of paying C then D using the mouth/lips technique one would play C then press the corresponding valve to play the whole tone above.

play us a tune with all 3 buttons!

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What is the relation between the open notes?

Yes that is also my question. thanks. But this was what I thought the probable combination of the 3 keys is 9 (3x3) which makes up one octave+. And then with some hidden key, the octave will change. But I saw you playing one scale just by pressing 1 key (After the fourth minute). Didn't get how that is possible.

I am first time playing trumpet not touched trumpet yet …

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We change the speed of the air? How did you measure the speed? The speed where? The LIPS posture and firmness control the pitch played (which you didn't mention), not the air speed or mouth shape.

So , can you answer this question? I will ask again. How did you measure the air speed? WHERE in the system did you measure rhe air speed? Or, can you show the study where air speed was measured accurately and shown to correlate 100 percent for all pieces played regardless of loudness of tone?

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