For the trumpet players who can’t wait until it’s Christmas…qPress just released 2 books with 15 songs for 2 trumpets or 2 trumpets with tuba.…
Author: erikveldkamp
I’ve updated my Chet Baker in Tokyo transcription book with an extra chorus (after the bass solo) in “Portrait in Black and White”. This is…
Our new cd “Jazz Influencers” is released today.
My new book with 15 Brazilian Tangos & Polkas composed by Ernesto Nazareth is almost finished. Here a short version of one of my favorite…
I’ve been busy this summer arranging well known jazz standards from the Real Book for this serie of 3 volumes. I had lot’s of fun…
qPress released 3 of my latest books about mutes. Each book has songs specially written for the harmon mute, cup & straight mute and the…
I wrote a collection of tonguing exercises which you can use as a warming-up for my staccato books. Most of them are just 2-4 bars…
Advanced Staccato Sketches is a technical tour de force for your fingers and your brain. My practice routine as a lead trumpet player contains a…
This beautiful and innovative collection of flow study books makes such perfect sense. You will wonder why no one has been writing books like these…
Murphy studied clarinet and saxophone when young and took trumpet lessons from Red Nichols’s father. In addition to being a talented composer, arranger, and musician,…
These 33 Progressive Range Studies are the perfect compliment to the intermediate study repertoire, and offer a perfect warm up of fundamentals for professionals, while…
Here 12 single tongue exercises in minor, you can just practice them on there own or use them as a warm up for my Staccato…