Welcome to Are You Ready
Lesson time: (1min 17sec)
Kay Charlton welcomes you to part 2 of Are You Ready and introduces the seven new trumpet tunes you'll learn step by step.
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:
Welcome to the Course!
Hi, everyone. Welcome to the course! 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 all different styles of music, and traveling the world playing Bollywood music, Latin American music, and all kinds of music that you'll encounter throughout this course.
Course Overview
We're going to learn the music step by step, one note at a time and in lots and lots of different musical styles.
- In the course, I've used my P trumpet.
- If you have a regular brass trumpet, you can use that too; they're both exactly the same.
Have Fun!
I really want you to have fun with these songs. I encourage you to experiment with improvising and making up your own ideas.
By the end of the course, you'll be able to:
- Play all of these fun tunes
- Improvise your own ideas
- Play 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
- Create a buzz
- Blow through the instrument
- Hold it properly
If you complete that course first, you'll be well-prepared to tackle the Are You Ready? Trumpet Course.
Let's Get Started!
So, are you ready? Let's dive in 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