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CJceltics33
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:16 pm    Post subject: Top Tones by Smith Reply with quote

Thinking about getting this one. Has anyone tried it?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent Etude book. One of Bud Herseth's favorites. My teacher Leon Merian studied with Smith in New York and was a guinea pig for the etudes.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great book. Play it musically.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you can get through these with a good sound and musicality, you are a MONSTER player. This book is hard, rewarding, amazing, all of the adjectives.

Its actually 20% off right now actually.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great book, but to be clear it’s an etude book, not some high note book. You’ll get more out of this than some high note book, but you’ll have to put a lot more into it as well. The etudes can be quite difficult. In my college life, I don’t think I got to them until I had made a pass through the Arban Characteristic Studies, Hering, Brandt, Balay, Charlier, Bitsch, Arban/Maire, and probably some other things as well. In a lot of ways they feel like a more taxing version of the Arban etudes.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Walter M. Smith -- Top Tones For The Trumpeter " 30 Modern Etudes ".

Once you have gone thru "Top Tones", I believe the culmination ..., the last one you should go thru, if you can play these your a pretty good player, and that would be Aaron Harris -- Advanced Studies for Trumpet & Cornet.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Once you have gone thru "Top Tones", I believe the culmination ..., the last one you should go thru, if you can play these your a pretty good player, and that would be Aaron Harris -- Advanced Studies for Trumpet & Cornet.


I can't think of a book that musically challenges both range and endurance in the way that "Top Tones" does.

Mel Broiles' "Studies and Duets" probably comes closest, though his studies tend to be shorter than Smith's. Allan Vizzutti's "Advanced Etudes" and the aforementioned "Advanced Studies" by Aaron Harris would probably be next on my list.

But if you work your way through "Top Tones" and want to keep challenging yourself in range from a musical perspective -- not just exercises -- clarinet etudes by Baermann, Cavallini, Jeanjean and others are terrific.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Besides being difficult etudes that run the player through the range of the instrument, there are etudes in every major and minor key. By the time you get into the second half of the book you'll be playing patterns in keys that most casual and even fairly decent players never have to deal with. I recommend this book highly. It does not use more contemporary-sounding melodic lines but the usage of difficult turns within them and the length and placement of the material is a real challenge for most of us. Good luck.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is great information, now I search for this book to study
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are some really good preparatory exercises at the beginning too.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A great exercise book is ASA by Rolf Quinque! It has many special exercises for improving tone and range. Many players in Germany are using this book. At the end some of the exercises go to double high C but I don't imagine playing those ever!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been a go to for me for years. Fun and melodic. Lots of good patterns and riffs that can be re purposed for improvisation.
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