Baritone or Trumpet?

i have been playing baritone for a few months. I am in band and i am starting to like the trumpet. My grandpa use to play the trumpet in his band that he had so i have a trumpet to fool around with. I am very good at baritone but i sorta wanna switch to trumpet. My grandpa is dead now so it would mean a lot to me and my family if i played the trumpet. My question is, stick with what i'm good at, or go on to a challenge?





And i can't play both

Baritone or Trumpet?
well its your desision ... if you like challanges go for it but then again it may reminded you of your decised grandpa
Reply:well you can play the trumpet and be good because baritone and trumpet got the same notes Report It

Reply:Why not go for a challenge? Playing trumpet is very fun and you never know, you might turn out to be good at it as well. Since you already have a trumpet, I would go for it. The fingerings are not that different. The only thing that would be different would be the change in the size of the mouthpiece, and it might take time to get used to, but it won't be that hard. And if it turns out that you don't like the trumpet as much as the baritone, you can always go back! Good luck with whatever you choose!
Reply:I play the oboe, and sometimes I really want to switch instruments. Unfortunately, I can't. I think that you should switch instruments. Since you already know how to play the baritone, you could learn a different instrument. I love the trumpet (as long as the person playing it is good at it). Variety is like a pinch of cinnamon in the boiling soup pot of life.
Reply:I love baritone! But, it sounds like although you are good with the baritone--having only played for a few months--you probably haven't mastered it. I admire the desire to emulate your grandpa and to seek a new challenge. But, there is something to be said for sticking with something too.





If you truly want to learn the trumpet for yourself, then I would go for it. But, I would make sure it's what you want, whatever your motivation.





I don't recall how what keys the two are in. But, if they are in the same key--it will be easier for you to read the music and be able to switch back and forth on your own time. (outside of class?)
Reply:If you are truly very good at the baritone then the trumpet will be just as easy, AFTER you master the smaller embouchure.





It is nearly impossible to develope an excellent embouchure for both instruments given the huge difference in mouthpieces. You need to choose one over the other.





Factors you may wish to consider;





#1) Have your parents already purchased the baritone for you? Baritones are very expensive!





#2) you already have the trumpet and it seems as if you are drawn to it rather than the baritone!





Once you have mastred on or the other then you can proceed learning other instruments as well. The trumpet and the baritone are different in the fact that on is played reading the treble cleff and the baritone uses the bass of F cleff.
Reply:trumpet. it's pretty easy actually, and fun to play sometimes.
Reply:hey. i play the trumpet 4.. about a month now ,its real easy to pick up ,by the 2 week i could play a whole song not with help,but it wood be better if u had help probley learn it better,,,,i say trumpet
Reply:Think: if you continue with baritone, how badly will you wish you'd chosen trumpet? If you change to trumpet, how badly will you miss baritone?





If you learn a second instrument now, even though you can't play both, in the future you will have two skills instead of one and you will be earning your own money to buy both and play both or either when and where you wish.





Of course with any skill, a few months in there is a dull patch when you fall a bit out of love with the learning - kind of the novelty wears off - so beware that it's not simply this happening to you now, because if that's all it is, it will happen again with trumpet.





Clearly you are from a musical family and already in a band after only a few months. You would be able to pick up another instrument in the future when you can pay for lessons yourself.





I haven't given you an A or B answer, but hope i've given you more suggestions to get you closer to knowing what your own mind is. Whatever you play, you must enjoy it.
Reply:you ought to stick with the baritone. chances are you can get so much better on the one you are on now. if you switch you will just be mediocre at two instruments and not an expert at one. stick with one until you have it to an expert level.
Reply:i would go for the trumpet
Reply:I found myself in this very same delima.


I started out on french horn but wanted to swich to Trumpet.





I wound up swiching to Trumpet %26amp; I am way better at it!


It just depends on which you're better at.