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CJceltics33 Veteran Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:16 pm Post subject: Top Tones by Smith |
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Thinking about getting this one. Has anyone tried it? |
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Ed Kennedy Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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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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Don Herman rev2 'Chicago School' Forum Moderator
Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 8951 Location: Monument, CO
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Great book. Play it musically. _________________ "After silence, that which best expresses the inexpressible, is music" - Aldous Huxley |
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timothyquinlan Veteran Member
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 267 Location: Victoria, BC
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Check out qPress for the largest selection of trumpet books on the internet. |
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JoseLindE4 Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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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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solo soprano Heavyweight Member
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Dayton Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:01 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | 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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Craig Swartz Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 4:38 am Post subject: |
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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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Trompette111 Regular Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2019 Posts: 41 Location: Germany/UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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This is great information, now I search for this book to study |
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mafields627 Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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There are some really good preparatory exercises at the beginning too. _________________ --Matt--
No representation is made that the quality of this post is greater than the quality of that of any other poster. Oh, and get a teacher! |
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Trompette111 Regular Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2019 Posts: 41 Location: Germany/UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:41 am Post subject: |
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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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trumpetmike2002 New Member
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:07 am Post subject: |
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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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