Forgeting Fingerings

[themacintrasher]

In band a lot of the brass players that have been playing since fifth grade will forget their trumpet fingers. As a tenor player, I have to remember a lot more than that. Is this common or are they just losers?

[hakukani]

I vote losers. They have a one in seven chance of getting the right fingering.

[Reedsplinter]

Sometimes even when they get the "wrong" fingering they can get the right note (like Bix).

[natewat]

Tell them to do more scales, especially chromatic 2 octaves C-C2 and back down! I can't think of a note that I don't know the fingering for on trumpet. I have been playing for over 25 years though.

Since taking up sax about four years ago, I have found myself messing up my sax fingerings trying to use trumpet fingerings for my right hand when improving!

It becomes second nature, just like sax.

[SuperAction80]

Any musician who doesn't play the saxophone is a loser. Come on let's face it...saxes are cool.

[gary]

If you're willing to call these other kids "losers" it makes me wonder, first and foremost, what your reason is for starting this thread. To make you feel superior?

If they are trumpet "players" who have been "playing" for several years and they can't remember their fingerings, they are not losers...they're lazy. The way to remember fingerings is to use them regularly, that means practice and playing.

[Eeviac]

Hm, it's actually possible to be thinking a note, on trumpet, and you finger something different but your lips will make the note, or try to. Weird! You find yourself thinking, "I shouldn't have been able to get that note" lol.

I saw it said somewhere maybe here, that trumpet's like singing or whistling, I'm a newb at it and I am already seeing that this is true.