How to Play an E Minor Scale on a Trumpet

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Part of the video series: Trumpet Lessons for Beginners: Scales

Summary: Play an e minor scale on a trumpet; learn how with tips from our expert trumpet player and teacher in this free trumpet video music lesson on brass instruments.

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How to Play an E Minor Scale on a Trumpet

And now another sad, sad scale: the E minor scale. There are some very interesting minor scales that you will find and E minor is another very popular minor scale. (Plays scale.) And to make a minor scale, you take the third note and the sixth note in the scale and you play them half a step lower; you flat them. Flatting and sharping are things we will get into in a more advanced series, but it's basically making a note a little higher by sharp or a little flatter. Just like a balloon: higher or flatter.

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