Scale It (performance)
Lesson time: (2min 48sec)
Play along with Kay Charlton on 'Scale It', a beginner trumpet tune that walks up and down the scale from C to low B, with count-ins and room to improvise over the backing track.
Course preview
This lesson is part of the course Are You Ready part 2: 7 more tunes to learn the trumpet
Watch a preview of the full course below.
Lesson transcript:
Scale It: Music Lesson
Welcome to the lesson on the song "Scale It." This song is all about playing your scale.
Notes Covered:
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- A (a new note we'll discuss shortly)
- Low B at the end of our scale.
Visualization
Imagine you're scaling the side of a mountain and coming back down the other side.
Introduction
Let's begin with a 4-bar introduction.
- Get ready to start on C.
- Take long notes.
- Take a good breath.
Ready? Here we go:
Repetition
Next time round, we will play three times on each note.
- Same notes, three times.
- Here we go. Well done!
Repeat that section.
Creativity
You can, of course, make up anything you like over this backing track using all the notes you know so far.
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