Adult method/song book

matthew.mcginn · New Member Joined: 14 Feb 2016 Posts: 8

I'm a forced intermediate trumpet player, but a beginner at heart. I started in high school with only three months of practice. I've come far, now I'm in my second year in wind ensemble. I don't have a good foundation on phrasing and musicality. I'm looking for books that will help, but not childish nursery rhymes. Something that will progress slowly and not make me sound childish. Something old timey and musically interesting.

VetPsychWars · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 10:27 am Post subject:

I have bought very old method books from eBay. Lots of fun!

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teacherdad · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 10:47 am Post subject: Clarke's _Elementary Studies_

Clarke's _Elementary Studies_ or, the Technical Studies done slowly. Or, both!

Really, any of the classics, done slowly and correctly with intentional phrasing and human attention to dynamics and phrasing and such, are musical and fun to play, and don't sound like nursery rhymes. Including but not limited to Arban, Schlossberg..

But, yeah, the Clarke Elementary Studies book has some pretty melodies in it in Bb concert for many pages, and then moves on to concert Eb (written in F), etc, etc. When I was going through the book, I'd pick one exercise (~12 bars or more) from each "lesson" (~4-6 exercises per lesson) and transpose it to all other major keys on separate paper, and play the same.

Good luck, play musically, rest in between tunes, and have fun!

cheiden · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:04 am Post subject:

The books that I felt benefitted me the most, in the time before I ever had lessons, were the books by Allen Vizzutti.
https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Vizzutti-Trumpet-Method-Technical/dp/0739019414
Note that this is just the first of 3 different books. All are worth having.

These are not a progressive method per se, but a collection of exercises, that aren't very difficult but did a better job of rounding out my technique than any of the other books I had seen at the time. In later years I became a huge fan of other method and exercise books, but always with the guidance of a pro teacher.
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VetPsychWars · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:38 am Post subject:

solo soprano · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:27 pm Post subject:

A Etude is a bridge between pure exercises and music.

Sigmund Hering:

The Beginning Trumpeter
The Advancing Trumpeter
The Progressing Trumpeter
The Achieving Trumpeter
Fifty Recreational Studies
Forty Progressive Etudes
Thirty-two Etudes
Thirty-eight Recreational Studies
Thirty Etudes
28 Melodious & Technical Etudes
Etudes in All the Major and Minor Keys
24 Advanced Etudes
15 Characteristic Etudes
23 Orchestral Etudes for the Advanced Trumpeter

Hering's method books:

The Beginning Trumpeter", "The Progressing Trumpeter", "The Advancing Trumpeter" and "The Achieving Trumpeter".
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Rapier232 · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:14 pm Post subject:

The Arban.
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mafields627 · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:48 pm Post subject:

Getchell First Book of Practical Studies
Edwards-Hovey Method for Trumpet
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1jazzyalex · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:50 pm Post subject:

Craig Swartz · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:42 pm Post subject:

mafields627 · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:32 am Post subject:

I actually used Getchell Book 2 in my practice last night. One of my college trumpet professors used it to introduce me to transposition. There are some fun melodies in there.
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Craig Swartz · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 7:56 am Post subject:

I use Getchell Bk 2 all the time myself. I also should've mentioned the Art of Phrasing section in Arbans. Keep working on things that aren't really written on the page, those that come from within each individual. That's the power of music.