Here's A One Note Tune (performance)
Lesson time: (3min 19sec)
Kay Charlton plays through 'Here's A One Note Tune' on trumpet, a beginner piece built entirely on the note C. Play along to work on your tonguing and timing.
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This lesson is part of the course Are You Ready part 1: 5 tunes for beginner trumpeters
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Lesson transcript:
One Note Tune Practice
Hi! So we're going to practice C in this song. It's called a one note tune. You only get to play one note.
Don't worry if you don't hit C every time. Just practice putting the notes in the right place.
- Use your tongue with a T on the beginning of every note.
Singing the Tune
We're going to sing the tune first to learn it. That way, we will play it later.
- You can play along with me, and then I'll do some copy backs, which is where I'll play something and you can copy me.
So have a go at joining in on:
Here's a One Note Tune
- There's our pulse.
- We've got eight bars of disco tune, so nod your head in time with the tune.
Four more bars and we're going to sing the tune first.
Singing the Tune
Here's a one note tune.
- Sing along!
Here we go.
Here's a one note tune.
Here's a one note tune.
Aha.
One more of those. Here we go.
Aha.
Great! Sing the tune one more time:
Here's a one note tune.
Here's a one note tune.
Aha.
One more. Here we go.
Aha.
Chorus Time
Now we're going to sing along. This is the chorus:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Aha.
One more of those. Aha.
Get Ready to Play
Trumpet ready! Going to play the tune. Here we go.
- Make sure you use your tongue: T.
Here we go. Brilliant!
Same again from the beginning. One more. Aha.
Now we're going to sing the chorus:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Aha.
Get your trumpet ready now.
Copy Me
Me first. Here I go.
Your turn.
Last O. Hit the chorus:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Aha.
About the instructor
Kay is a trumpet player, composer and teacher of brass and curriculum music, specialising in primary classroom teaching - KS2, First Access/WCET (whole-class ensemble teaching, where a class learns an instrument together) and teacher CPD (continuing professional development). She completed a Masters in Music Education - 'Teaching Musician' at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2018. Kay plays trumpet with the Bollywood Brass Band, a 9-piece band of brass and drums whose 2017 CD Carnatic Connection was nominated for a Songlines Magazine 'World Music Award' and given a 5-star review in the London Evening Standard. Kay composes and arranges for the band and leads on their education work, founding the Bollywood Brass Academy in 2017. Kay has presented her research into whole-class teaching at the Music Education Expo and the First Access Forum. She has designed and led CPD for LSO Discovery, Trinity College London, Music Education Solutions and the Bollywood Brass Band, and is an education consultant for Warwick Music. Kay's book of beginner repertoire, 'Are You Ready?', is published by Warwick Music; in 2017 Kay was commissioned by Warwick Music and Music Education Solutions to compose songs for a new KS1 scheme of work for the pBuzz, which was nominated as 'Education Resource of 2018' by the 'Education Awards'. Other publications include pieces for Trinity's Initial (2015/2018) and Grade 1 (2018) piano syllabus, Bollywood Blast! (Spartan Press) - a series of brass and wind tutor books with backing tracks in a Bollywood style - and Whole Class Bollywood Blast with David Rose (Bedford Music Hub), which is aimed at teachers of whole-class instrumental lessons and includes an Arts Award Discover programme. Her MusicGurus courses bring that classroom experience straight to you: from your very first trumpet lesson through two sets of tunes for beginners, Kay sets out exactly what to play and how to play it. www.kaycharlton.co.uk read more