Damien Duffy

Brass fingering charts in all keys Damien Duffy

Brass fingering charts in all Major and minor keys. With transposition chart. For all valved brass instruments reading treble clef. (Does not cover a 4th valve for piccolo trumpet) . Learn your scales, fingerings and scale degrees/chord tones (highlighted) right from the start. Scales appear as Major/minor pairs, in order of increasing accidentals. Alternate and half fingerings are given where appropriate. A section at the end shows what notes can be played with each fingering so you can practice pitch aim. Range given is to C above the stave, with scales given from the lowest playable chord tone to the highest and scale degrees numbered. This book aims to be the best possible starting point for learning to play brass in any genre. Now updated with color coding to show the notes of the pentatonic scales, making it easy for beginners to improvise from the beginning in any key. The layout of the book is designed to impart music theory through visual representation, so that the relationship between the major and minor keys, how the chords are derived, the identity of the intervals and the make up of the pentatonic scales that come from them are all self evident.