Welcome, trumpet players! This page is a work in progress, and eventually hopes to be your one-stop-resource for learning School of HONK tunes, passing along tips for beginner and intermediate players alike, and laying out some general trumpet knowledge for your consumption!
News from the Treehouse Lookout
2024-07-20
Videos for Tightrope and JB Shout are posted!
Learn Our Tunes
Click the images below to view videos of fingerings for each of our songs, or the text links to view charts with fingerings written in.
Practice Improvising
Click the links below to access audio tracks featuring the rhythm parts that play during each song’s solo section! We will eventually have all of our songs up in these two formats. Big thanks to Rosalie Norris, Joanna Vouriotis, Lilia Volodina, Johnny Saylor, and Amanda Hope for laying down the following tracks! (long form recordings feature the rhythm section playing the backing part for about 1:30, for freeform solo practice)
Carinito – actual length solo // Carinito – freeform
Eye Know – actual solo length // Eye Know – freeform
Funkytown – actual length solo // Funkytown – freeform
Ghostbusters – actual length solo // Ghostbusters – freeform
Green Onions – actual solo length // Green Onions – freeform
Groove Is In The Heart (melodic)- actual length solo // Groove Is In The Heart (melodic) – freeform
Groove Is In The Heart (part 5) – actual length solo // Groove Is In The Heart (part 5)- freeform
Guaglione – actual solo length // Guaglione – freeform
La Murga de Panama – actual length solo // La Murga de Panama – freeform
Lady – actual length solo // Lady – freeform
Let’s Go Get ‘Em – actual solo length // Let’s Go Get ‘Em – freeform
Push It – actual solo length // Push It – freeform
Respect – actual length solo // Respect – freeform
Rock Anthem – actual length solo // Rock Anthem – freeform
Rock Lobster – actual length solo // Rock Lobster – freeform
Soul Bossa Nova – actual solo length // Soul Bossa Nova – freeform
Stay Human – actual solo length // Stay Human – freeform
Uptown Funk – actual length solo // Uptown Funk – freeform
We Got That Fire – actual solo length // We Got That Fire – freeform
You Really Got Me – actual solo length // You Really Got Me – freeform
Trumpet Fingering Chart
Interested in learning or brushing up on trumpet note names? See below to find note names, where the notes live on a musical staff, and the corresponding trumpet fingerings!
Chart credit www.normans.co.uk.
