The serie Your Daily Exercises contains several books with each it’s own theme. Here is the first bunch with lot’s of exercises to incorporate in…
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qPress published my new book “Trumpet Skills“. I used a different idea for this book, because these etudes (in straight & swing 8’s) are not…
I’m working on a new project for 3 trumpets/flugelhorns. The book will have 12 Venezuelan & other beautiful Waltzes. Here is the first one of…
![Manteca [6 TRPTS]](http://erikveldkamp.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trumpet_4tet-660x577.jpg)
Here my 6tet/7tet version of Manteca, a great composition of Dizzy Gillespie. I wrote this arrangement many years ago for big band and other line…
Here a short demo I recorded this morning from a great Horace Silver composition called “The Jody Grind”. It’s also for my 6tet project. I…
qPress released some new books today. “Play The Lead!” 1 & 2 are the play along versions of my Quartet books. So you can play…
Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite etudes in my book “24 Range & Upper Register Etudes”. I’ve transposed it in 4 keys.…
Here is a free exercise from a new serie of books I’m working on. It’s a serie of books with daily exercises. Each book has…
qPress Music Publishing just released my 50 trumpet quartets, so if you like the demos you now can buy the sheet music for yourself and…
My trumpet quartets megaproject is finished, it will be published by qPress Music Publishing in January 2021. I’ve made 7 books in total, 5 volumes…
“Line For Lyons” is a great tune written by Gerry Mulligan and played with Chet Baker. This song is a tribute to Jimmy Lyons, the…