Here 15 exercises written by Ernesto Köhler for flute. I adapted them for the trumpet, which means they are for the advanced player…
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Here an advanced etude composed by Pierre Rode for violin (from 12 Etudes for Violin) which I adapted for trumpet en transposed in 4 keys.…
Here are some great jazz solo transcriptions on YouTube: …
Last Saturday I had a great concert together with trumpeters Otto Sauter, Ack van Rooyen and Andrij Ilkiv on the Wartburg in Eisenach (Germany). We all…
Another transcription of a solo played by the great Dizzy Gillespie. The tune is written by Charlie Parker and called “Bloomdido”
Here a collection of great (staccato) studies which will help you with different aspects of trumpet playing like tonguing, fingering, coördination, endurance, flexibility and tone. They are…
A transcription of Harry James solo on “Blues for Harry’s Sake”. The solo starts at 00:47.
Another transcription of a famous solo on the tune “Dizzy Atmosphere” played by the great Dizzy Gillespie. In this solo he plays a fabulous lick…
Here a solo transcription of “Hot House” as played by Dizzy Gillespie at a TV show in 1952 after they won the Down Beat Jazz…
We played this great big band chart with the Glenn Miller Orchestra more then 75 times this year during our concerts in Europe (and Russia) and…
“Dance Of The Goblins” composed by Antonio Bazzini is a violin concerto but I adapted it for trumpet after seeing a clip of Tamir Akta playing…
Franz Wohlfahrt (1833 – 1884) wrote these exercises for violin but they are also great for practicing on trumpet. I found…