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Three trumpet books you must have!
Trumpet players are “different”! We have a different set of “rules” when it comes to practice. We have a whole set of fundamentals we like to hit on a daily basis. Those fundamentals include; warming up, lip buzzing, breathing, mouthpiece buzzing, long tones, tone, lip slurs, scales, tonguing, multiple tonguing, range, endurance, intervals, etudes, repertoire, etc. When I was in college, I played with an amazing concert pianist, I asked him what he did to warm up and he said he would play some lyrical piece by Chopin or some other composer from the Romantic period and I thought, wow, how cool would it be to just pull out more horn and start playing pieces!? Of course, he wasn’t only playing repertoire, but, for the most part, I believe he was. Trumpet players always have their “routine” which usually consists of playing/practicing in a certain pre-determined order on daily basis. Not that any one player decided we should do this, it’s just how we are taught generation after generation. The next question is, “what” do I/we practice?
Here are my “desert island” must haves for practicing everything needed to play the trumpet.
The first is the trumpet players “bible”, “Arbans complete method for trumpet”
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This book contains pretty much everything including all of the fundamentals and etudes etc. listed above. I don’t know of any trumpet player alive who hasn’t gone through, at least one time or another, the entire book (or most of it). And the best part is that it is FREE!!! Yes, public domain has rendered this gem downloadable to most if not everyone. Be sure to check with your state or country for the legality of the download. I always use imslp.org to find pieces that are public domain.
The second is “Clarke’s Technical Studies for trumpet”.
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Technical Studies for the Cornet (English, German and French Edition)
This one is full of exercises and a few etudes that will most definitely get you “around” the horn. It is interesting to note that all the exercises are marked p or pp. And, this one is also FREE!!!
Lastly, Max Schlossberg “Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet”
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Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet
This book is filled with just that. I particularly like the layout of the book as it starts with long tones and then continues with lip slurs that “gently” get wider and more difficult. It also includes tonguing and intervals etc.
Even though two of these three books are “free”, many people choose to buy them for convenience sake and to save money on paper and printing. Also, it is popular to download them straight to a reader like an iPad.