Notes
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“…a welcome addition to any trumpet player’s library across all ability levels”
International Trumpet Guild Journal
“It is the best, simplest and sanest approach I have yet encountered”
John Wallace CBE, former Principal Trumpet, Philharmonia Orchestra, London.
“Highly recommended!“
Mark David, Head of Brass, Royal Academy of Music, London.
”Great exercises, inspiring to use“
Urban Agnas, Professor of Trumpet, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
“A really nice overview of all aspects of trumpet playing“
Raymond Mase, Chair of Brass, the Juilliard School, New York.
“This book has it all in one“
Kristian Steenstrup, Professor of Trumpet, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.
“I cannot recommend this book highly enough”
Jonathan Rees, The Brass Herald, 72/2018
“A must for for the 21st century trumpeter”
Dean Wright, Professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
“Inspiring to use”
Urban Agnas, Professor of Trumpet, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
“I’m thoroughly enjoying every minute”
Mark O’Keeffe, Professor of Trumpet, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
“A really nice overview of all aspects of trumpet playing”
Raymond Mase, Chair of Brass, the Juilliard School, New York.
“This book has it all in one”
Kristian Steenstrup, Professor of Trumpet, the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.
“Brilliant!”
Rex Richardson, USA, international trumpet soloist.
“Really precise and to the point exercises that cover the whole range of playing required these days”
Philippe Schartz, Principal Trumpet, BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
This book is for anyone from elementary to advanced who wants to learn to play the trumpet better. Some exercises and studies require a great deal of skill but most can be adapted to suit almost every level and every stage in a player’s development.
The exercises have all come about through a desire to find solutions, or sometimes just a different angle, to particular aspects of tone control on the trumpet, be it breathing, articulation, range or stamina, i.e. the essential basic tone-production techniques required in order to learn to master this wonderful but sometimes also rather awkward beast: the trumpet!
Some exercises may be quite new to you, others will be similar to existing material (we stand on ‘the shoulders of giants’, whether predecessors or great contemporaries!), but all exercises are here presented and developed in a way that I hope will encourage a new approach in your daily practice.
Only exercises that have proven again and again to me to be genuinely helpful have been included. I hope that they will be of as much use to you.
Thank you for taking an interest.
Special thanks to Michael Laird and Ellie Lovegrove for their invaluable and generous advice during the writing of this book.
