Question and Answer (performance)
Lesson time: (2min 52sec)
Kay Charlton performs Question and Answer on the trumpet
Course preview
This lesson is part of the course Are You Ready part 2: 7 more tunes to learn the trumpet
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Lesson transcript:
Lesson: Question and Answer
This is the last piece in our course. It's called Question and Answer, and it really brings together all the things we've learned over the course.
Key Points:
- Uses five notes
- You have the option of adding in the others as well
- Focuses on asking questions and trying to get the answers
Structure:
- It starts off with some long notes.
- You can choose a C, an E, or a G at the beginning.
- Entirely up to you.
Timing:
- Ready? Off we go.
- Count: 1, 2, 3 (8 bars to count).
Practice:
- I'm going to play a question and then an answer phrase.
- Four more. Here we go. Get ready.
Question Prompt:
- One. What is the question?
- I don't know.
Improvisation:
- Now, this section, as always, you can improvise or copy me.
Copy Backs:
- Here are some copy backs for you.
Your Turn:
- It.
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