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Lesson time: (2min 32sec)
Kay Charlton plays 'Play That Bhangra Beat', a beginner trumpet tune built on just two notes, C and D. Watch the performance and play along with the interactive notation.
This lesson is part of the course Are You Ready part 1: 5 tunes for beginner trumpeters
Watch a preview of the full course below.
Lesson transcript:
Hi. This tune is called Play that Bhangra Beat.
Bhangra is an Indian style of music. In this song, we're going to use two notes: C and D.
Let's play the song, and in the next video, we'll break down how to play it and specifically how to play D.
Get ready! Four more.
Same thing on D.
This is the chorus we can shout:
Trumpet ready.
It's time: Make up your own reply. Your turn.
Here's the chorus:
I'm back to the beginning after this one. Here we go!
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
