Piano / Trumpet

[Pablotr]

Hello everyone,

This is a question for piano and trumpet players. Maybe it's a pointless question, but... How do you put your mind? I mean, I played the piano for years, and when I read sheet music I automatically see black and white keys... When I read sheet music for the trumpet, the same thing happens... Despite knowing that it is a transposing instrument... I don't know if I should avoid that custom.
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Yamaha ytr 8310z

[Robert P]

How long have you been playing trumpet?

You need to practice reading a lot and train your brain to respond with the appropriate fingerings.
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[AlanK17]

I have always done that, probably because I played piano from an early age and later took up trumpet when I was 11. The only down side I have ever perceived over the 50 years since is that my dislike of what could be considered "difficult" key signatures to play on piano has transferred to trumpet, even though in reality on trumpet no key is more difficult to play in than any other (at least in my experience). Nevertheless I still dislike playing in F#!
Aside from this I think you most likely work at an advantage, with an acquired knowledge of chords/harmony that anyone who just plays a melody instrument won't already have.
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1975 Selmer Paris Radial 99 trumpet
Phil Parker London Series 1 flugel

[delano]

It’s all caused by the fact that the b-flat trumpet is a transposing horn. I have the same problem but alittle different. I seem to read the Bflat trumpet parts a whole tone lower, so I read a C as a Bflat .Obviously I consider my Bflat as a C horn. My problem occurs then when I read piano sheets, I have really to reset my mind.
And I consider Fsharp/Gflat major and B major quite easy on a piano cause of the natural fingering. But concert A and B major on a trumpet are difficult on a trumpet IMO.

[Billy B]

When you read sheet music you should be hearing sound
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Bill Bergren

[delano]

Unfortunately different sounds on piano and Bflat horns

[JayKosta]

Recognizing the desired pitch, no-thought finger action, no-thought embouchure action.

'automatic mechanics' - the goal is to NOT need awareness of those items, just have them happen as a reflex to seeing the written (or visualized) notes.

"Just DO it" - but that usually only happens after a lot of thoughtful practice.
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Most Important Note ? - the next one !
KNOW (see) what the next note is BEFORE you have to play it.
PLAY the next note 'on time' and 'in rhythm'.
Oh ya, watch the conductor - they set what is 'on time'.

[Pablotr]

Thank you all for your replies and advice. You are absolutely right when you say that I should be thinking in sounds, since that is what this language is all about. But when I'm doing exercises in the twelve tones, it makes it much easier for me to visualize a keyboard. Despite the fact that, and this is where I find the problem, the C on the keyboard is a D in a trumpet score...
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Yamaha ytr 8310z

[kehaulani]

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[Trumpjerele]

If you haven't perfect pitch, I don't think it would be problematic to follow Kelahuani's advice.
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Trumpet: Yamaha 8310Z
Mouthpiece: the great Yamaha11b4

Sax tenor: Yamaha YTS 23
Mouthpiece: Otto link tone edge

[delano]

All the advice here is probably right but on a more individual level reality is different for bad readers like myself.
In a former life when I played slide trombone in several big bands I played all the books in fact by memory, using the sheets for keys and global orientation.