Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C

adc

Since high D and F can be played open, I assume A and maybe B can be played open? I was just amazed that high C,D,E,F, G are all open.

djeffers78

That’s what I hate about the upper range. Fingerings barely mean a thing. Seems all notes can be played with any combo or none.
Although it does marginally help to center the notes

Dr GO

@adc said in Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C:

Since high D and F can be played open, I assume A and maybe B can be played open? I was just amazed that high C,D,E,F, G are all open.

I find A is best played with the third valve. I keep the B at 2.

ROWUK

Upper range? Considering the standard repertoire for trumpet, up to E or F above high C is pretty much „standard range“.

In any case, one (and I do) can use the same fingerings as an octave lower. Then the transitions sound clean. F above high C is not in tune or centered in pitch when played open. It is almost F#.

Now, with the natural trumpet, the melody range starts with that high C (albeit, due to the much longer instrument, it sounds an octave lower). With that instrument, you have to learn a new „vocabulary“ with no valves to help.

A Former User

@Dr-GO said in Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C:

I find A is best played with the third valve.

Yes!

Vulgano Brother

Chase would use 123 for high A.

Seth of Lagos

@Vulgano-Brother said in Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C:

Chase would use 123 for high A.

Isn't that the nineteenth harmonic? (18th is G#, 20th is A#). Interesting.

Wonder whether the deciding factor in this choice is pitch, timbre, or testosterone.

Dr GO

@Seth-of-Lagos said in Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C:

@Vulgano-Brother said in Alternate (lack of) fingering above High C:

Chase would use 123 for high A.

Isn't that the nineteenth harmonic? (18th is G#, 20th is A#). Interesting.

Wonder whether the deciding factor in this choice is pitch, timbre, or testosterone.

For me it's convince. Using just one finger, and a very flexible one at that makes an otherwise temperamental note to sound so much easier to play. Especially if playing in a rapidly passing phrase.