Welcome to Are You Ready
Lesson time: (1min 17sec)
Kay Charlton welcomes you to her beginner trumpet course, where you'll learn five tunes one note at a time across a range of musical styles.
Course preview
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:
Welcome to the Course!
Hi, everyone!
You've made a great choice! My name's Kay Charlton and I'm a trumpet teacher and musician. I've been playing the trumpet for many years, teaching various styles of music, and traveling the world playing:
- Bollywood music
- Latin American music
- All kinds of music you'll encounter in this course.
Course Overview
In this course, we're going to learn music step by step, one note at a time, across lots of different musical styles.
Instruments
In the course, I've used my P trumpet, but if you have a regular brass trumpet, you can use that as well. They're both exactly the same.
Have Fun and Experiment!
I really want you to have fun with these songs.
- Experiment with improvising
- Make up your own ideas.
By the end of the course, you'll be able to play all of these fun tunes, including:
- Improvising your own ideas
- Playing a whole song structure for each song.
For Beginners
If you've never played a note on the trumpet before, don't forget to check out my other course, Introduction to the P Trumpet.
In that course, I explain how to make your first sound by:
- Making a buzz
- Blowing through the instrument
- Holding it properly.
If you complete that course first, you'll be well-prepared for the Are You Ready? Trumpet Course.
Let's Get Started!
So, are you ready? Let's get started with our first tune!
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