Fingering Chart for Brass Band players

I did a quick search for a fingering chart just to provide some information for a student, and was amazed at the array of information that became available.  There are so many fingering charts that have pictures, colored dots and other ways of showing which fingering is possible for certain notes, but I found many of them to be quite confusing and only covering a fairly limited range.

Fingering for Trumpet

Here are the fingerings for the notes you’ll be playing on your trumpet for at least the first few months. The first valve is the one closest to you, the second valve is the middle one, and the third valve is — you guessed it — the one farthest from you. The notation “0” means no valves at all.

Common Music Time Signatures

In music, a time signature tells you the meter of the piece you’re playing. Composers decide the number of beats per measure early on and convey this information with a time signature.
The two numbers in the time signature tell you how many beats are in each measure of music. A piece with a time signature of 4/4 has four quarter note beats; each measure with a 3/4 meter has three quarter note beats; and each measure of 2/4 time has two quarter note beats.