Let trumpet master Allen Vizzutti transform your playing with New Concepts for Trumpet. Including over 50 original etudes and 20 creative duets, this book will enhance your technique and musicality through innovative and enlightening studies. The expertly graded studies offer logical steps for quick improvement. The book also includes insightful articles on proven concepts for artistry and consistency in trumpet performance-as described by one of the world's most successful trumpet soloists.
The Second Book of Practical Studies is designed to logically extend the techniques already presented in the First Book and also to introduce and develop new techniques and rhythms that will offer a challenge to the intermediate student. Through the use of slightly more difficult and more extended studies, it is hoped that the material included in this book may more fully develop general musicianship and more feeling for style and interpretation and thus act as a foundation for solo literature.
There are many books written for the Piano, Violin, etc., entirely devoted to Technic. This Work is especially written to enable the Student, by practice and application, to overcome any obstacle which may occur in musical passages written for the Cornet. By controlling the Wind Power to play these Exercises as written, in one breath, the Student will acquire ENDURANCE without strain or injury. Train the Muscles which control the Lips, to make them elastic and strong, as only a slight pressure is necessary, and not brute force. The highest as well as the lowest notes can be played with equal tone quality if practiced according to the instructions that precede each Study. Every Cornet Player should have reached a degree of excellence before attempting to play these Exercises. To become an Expert on the Cornet, one should be familiar with as many Cornet Methods as possible, and so gain the experience of each. Every Exercise in this Book is possible, and not so very difficult if practiced slowly at first, and not too long at a time. I have used them for my daily practice for years, and they have been the means of my reaching the highest notes after playing a two-hour Concert, also of preserving my lips so that they never tire, and what has been a help to me is surely good for other Cornet Players. You cannot expect to attain the highest point of excellence without hard work and perseverance. Never be perfectly satisfied with yourself. Try to make some improvement each day, feeling that it is a pleasure to have conquered that which seemed an impossibility at first. Do not neglect to correct immediately the least fault you make. Bad habits are easily formed, but are difficult to remedy. There are few Celebrated Cornet Soloists, although thousands play the instrument. Most players abuse their practicing by not knowing the proper way, and neglecting to pay more attention to the elementary work. These Studies have been found to be excellent for Clarinet Players as well as Cornet Players. The Clarinet being a Wind Instrument also, all these Exercises will appeal to the Player of that Instrument by following the same instructions.
Most of the etudes in "Twenty Studies" were composed with very specific problems in mind. If you are an orchestral trumpet player working on the standard audition repertoire, this book is a must-have for your collection and should be worked into your practice regime at the earliest possible opportunity. To illustrate how the book provides solutions to very specific problems in the standard orchestral repertoire, consider the etude called "It's In There." This etude was composed specifically to address the issue of breathing in the famed Petrouchka excerpt. Practicing "It's In There" forces the musician to deal with breathing, because of the etude's length and range. When the musician learns and masters "It's In There", he or she is better equipped to handle the original etude, and returning to it (s)he will find it less demanding and not nearly as intimidating as before. Another example is the etude which deals with the intervals and phrasing of Mahler's third symphony. After mastering this etude, the challenges posed by the intervals and phrasing of the original excerpt will cease to be as formidable as many musicians originally experienced them. The book boasts several of these exaggerated etudes along with other, more generally challenging studies. All of the etudes are intended to help you prepare for your orchestral auditions.
Trumpet exercises for dexterity, strength and expanded aural proficiency. For intermediate to advanced players. Written by Booby Shew, one of the great jazz trumpet players of our time.
A complete pedagogical method for students of trumpet and cornet, this "brass bible" contains hundreds of exercises from basics to advanced. Includes the author's famous arrangement of Carnival in Venice.
Expertly written by the renowned trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti, this comprehensive trumpet method provides a fantastic assortment of all-new intermediate to advanced-level exercises and etudes in all keys. It is organized into three volumes for greater study flexibility: Book 1, Technical Studies; Book 2, Harmonic Studies and Book 3, Melodic Studies. Available in SmartMusic.
