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“Bop Duets,” written by Bugs Bower and edited by Steve Bulla, is my favourite jazz duet book of all time! It included thirty-eight duets in the bebop style to develop feeling for jazz phrasing and rhythms, independence in ensemble playing, and range. Written for intermediate to advanced players, these duets have a wealth of wonderful …
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Twenty-two stylistic studies for all treble clef instruments. This is a wonderful place for beginning improvisors to start to understand the building of a cogent and thematic solo within the chord changes. Each study is constructed in or close to the A-A-B-A form, as is much of the American Songbook, and each relies on the …
Bop Twenty Two Stylistic Studies For All Treble Clef InstrumentsRead More
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Develop Sight Reading establishes itself as a vital contribution in music literature. This study material, technical in nature, is indispensable for it stimulates, coordinates and stabilizes one’s mental and physical reflexes. A strand of musical genius is weaved throughout these musical passages of unusual originality. By tuning one’s approach toward expressing each phrase as a …
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First published in 1971, Roy Steven’s Embouchure Self-Analysis and The Stevens-Costello Embouchure Technique (Complete) is considered to be the authoritative text on embouchure analysis incorporating physical laws, scientific principles and muscular physiology in establishing a consistent embouchure for the brass player. This revised second edition by the original editor, William Moriarity, reflects the timelessness and …
EMBOUCHURE TROUBLE & SELF ANALYSIS (STEVENS-COSTELLO TECHNIQUE)Read More
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Chris Gekker’s Endurance Drills for Performance Skills has a simple mandate – not unlike Herbert L Clarke’s Technical Studies – to play with ease in all registers, keeping the embouchure fresh and pliable. Clarke called endurance “90% of cornet playing” and you can see here that Gekker agrees. His attention to detail in his own …
Endurance Drills for Performance Skills plus Five bach Transcriptions – Chris GekkerRead More
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Chris Gekker’s Articulation Studies is the most popular articulation guide for the trumpet on the planet. It’s used by the world’s foremost teachers and professionals, and when you follow the practice guide in the book’s forward, your improvement is absolutely guaranteed. Included are all of the articulation exercises transposed into all keys, a series of …
Gekker Articulation Studies- Exercises, Etudes, DuetsRead More
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The great Dr. Charles Colin referred to these solos by Hermann Bellstedt as “chestnuts”, such a lovely characterization for these rarely seen and undoubtedly overlooked cornet solos. Bellstedt was one of the finest cornetists of his generation, and as you can see by these solos, very technically fit and virtuosic on the instrument. I feel …
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The following Etudes are a first step to getting used to performing on the piccolo trumpet. The warm-up exercises in this book are the exercises that I use daily for my preparation on the piccolo trumpet. As the word ‘warm-up’ indicates, they are to be used to get your muscles into shape in a fairly …
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“Rhythms Complete” By Bugs Bower and Dr. Charles Colin is the most widely used primer in the world for teaching rhythm, syncopation and phrasing, employing a very melodic format of 82 exercises in rhythmic structures and combinations of rhythms. It requires time, practice and repetition to master, however once you can read this in 4/4 …
Rhythms Complete Treble Clef – Dr. Charles Colin and Bugs BowerRead More
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The Art of Trumpet Playing is a method by William A. Thiecke, edited and with a foreword by Mel Broiles. From the Preface “Students, it seems, invariably do not understand the principles of warming up correctly nor practicing wisely. It is largely a case of “Ve get too late schmart”. By this I mean that …
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The Saint-Jacome Method, in the eyes of many, was overdue for an overhaul. Today, it has arrived. Throughout the years the world’s most accomplished trumpet players have acknowledged and attributed much of their success to the teachings of Saint-Jacôme. Given their own individual musical talents, their natural gifts enabled them to navigate the “confusion”. The …
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“My basic philosophy is that every musician must find his or her own way of playing and execute it subconsciously. I believe strongly that if a player must consciously manipulate his face, tongue, or any other part of his anatomy for that matter, most of his effort will be directed toward that end leaving insufficient …
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