“Erik Veldkamp has spent his quarantine creating an INSANE number of study books, duets, and chamber music for Trombone & Tuba. This email isn’t pretty…
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I think I bothered all my students with this duet version of “Summertime” this school year, so I have to write some new duets for…
I wrote and recorded this funky version of Arban’s Carnival of Venice many years ago, so the “funky” beat is a bit ’80s…? There’s also…
Yesterday was a very interesting livestream with Omar Tomasoni, principal trumpet player of the Concertgebouworkest. It seems to me we think the same about many…
Qpress Music Publishing released another 4 transcriptions books of Fats Navarro which makes the total of 7 albums I transcribed earlier this year. That covers…
Here another great composition by Astor Piazzolla. Challenging but fun to play.
Oblivion is a beautiful and well known composition written by Astor Piazzolla. I finally found some time to record it this morning. It’s also a…
This is an exercise I play for many years just to warm up. It’s good for practicing scales and range in all keys.
Here the last tune from my book “The Groove Xperiment”. It’s based on rhythm changes with a groovy beat underneath it. More info at qPress…
Here one of my favorite staccato exercises in 8 keys (only the first 16 bars). It’s from my book “10 Short Staccato Studies” available by…
I found this happy tune somewhere in my archive and probably never used it in one of my books. So here it is…
Good news for everyone who wants to buy some of my books: qPress will give a discount of 20% the next coming weeks if you…