Trumpet tablature
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Trumpet Tablature is a rather rare form of music notation that applies to all brass instruments, but is most commonly found written for trumpet. It consists of lines with partials, and numbers representing valve or slide positions.

Examples

The base setup is shown here, with P for pedal
Pedal
The word pedal comes from the Latin and relates to the foot.A pedal is a lever activated by one's foot. The term "foot pedal" is redundant, and should be avoided...

 and names of open notes. As well as counting on the top. Low range is shown by lowercase letters, middle range by capital letters, and high, double high etc. ranges by subscript. This method is impractical in the altissimo
Altissimo
Altissimo refers to the uppermost register on woodwind instruments. For clarinets, which overblow on odd harmonics, the altissimo notes are those based on the fifth, seventh, and higher harmonics. For other woodwinds, the altissimo notes are those based on the third, fourth, and higher harmonics...

 range however, because of fingering differences between horns.

1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E2___________________
C2___________________
G____________________
E____________________
C____________________
g____________________
c____________________
P____________________

Numbers are used to represent fingerings. For trumpet you may see true fingerings (chromatically down from 0, 2, 1, 1/2, 2/3, 1/3, 1/2/3) but more commonly with positions. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 1 is open and 7 is 1/2/3. Trombone tablature will always have slide positions. Here is an example of a two octave C major scale:

1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E2_______________________________________________________________
C2________________________________________________4___2___1______
G_________________________________________3___1__________________
E_________________________________3___1__________________________
C_____________________4___2___1__________________________________
g_____6___4___3___1______________________________________________
c_1______________________________________________________________
P________________________________________________________________

Four valve instruments are more complicates, as well as tenor trombones with F attachments and bass trombones. Four valve instruments use:

Tab number|fingering|played on trombone w/F attachment|note if played on C partial (treble clef Bb)|
1 0 1 C
2 2 2 B
3 1 3 Bb
4 12 4 A
5 23 5 Ab
6 4 F1 G
7 24 F2 Gb
8 14 F3 F
9 124 F4 E
(10) 234 F5 Eb
(11) 134 F6 D
(12) 1234 F7 Db

Positions 10 11 and 12 are in parentheses so they do not appear as two separate notes.

Some other symbols include:

1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E2_1!__________________accent
C2_1*__________________stacatto
G_%1___________________scoop
E_1%___________________doit
C_1-------____________ hold
g_1(tildes ~. Wikipedia doesn't like repeated tildes.)trill
c_1^^^^^^^2_1^^^_______slur
P_______________^^^1___slur
<<<<<< >>>>>>>> F P mp etc.
crescendo diminuendo dynamics

1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E2_1\________________fall
C2________1\2________fall to another note.
G___/1_______________smear
E__/____1z___________long fall/glissando
C_/_______z__________
g__________z_________
c____________________
P____________________
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