<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nFingerings For Pedal Tones<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
It turns out there isn’t a standard set of fingerings for pedal tones–this is because the trumpet isn’t designed to slot at these tones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of that, different trumpets will play pedal tones easier with different fingerings from one trumpet to the next.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis means that some trumpets you can play pedal C (C3) with all valves open, while some trumpets you’ll need to have all valves closed or perhaps 1,3 closed, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have to experiment with your trumpet to see which fingerings make it easier to play a particular pedal tone. You might find success with holding all the valves down just to get used to playing down there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat About C Trumpets?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As you may know, some styles of music call for C trumpets (sure makes writing music easier). It turns out that <\/strong>the C trumpets have a slightly different shape to accommodate the two semitone difference between Bb trumpets and C trumpets.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis means that the bottom of a C trumpet range is two notes higher than their Bb cousins, so their bottom range is simply Concert G3b\/F3#, while a Bb trumpet range goes down to Concert E. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a huge difference<\/strong>–but something to keep in mind. Just consider the range to be the same for C trumpets and Bb trumpets and that should do enough for you in 99% of situations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trumpet is not chosen for pieces because of its low register but because of its exceptionally strong mid and high register. You can never listen to a song and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":7,"label":"Trumpet"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/C-going-down-to-Gb-1024x442.jpg",640,276,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Mitchell","author_link":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/author\/thesoundadventurer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":7,"name":"Trumpet","slug":"trumpet","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":13,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":7,"category_count":13,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Trumpet","category_nicename":"trumpet","category_parent":2}],"tag_info":false,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}