Yesterday I had a brief (unexpected) encounter with this magnificent bird. This White-tailed Eagle is probably a few years old because it didn’t have a white…
Author: erikveldkamp
Brandon Ritenour has made some great recordings and posted them on Youtube, here he plays a great arrangement of Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen…
“The mind is the creator of concepts and attitudes that produce the physical activity necessary for proper trumpet playing. Wrong concepts can also make playing…
We had a nice tour through Russia with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the last week of februari 2016. Lot’s of traveling, see this map…
Here 24 studies written by the German composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert. These studies were written for oboe, so pretty challenging to play on trumpet… I didn’t like…
On the dvd “Playing Lead Trumpet”, Wayne Bergeron talks about some flexibility exercises he likes to practice. Because these are great and also challenging exercises…
Dorival Puccini plays and gives tips how to practice and play the 14 Characteristic Studies by Jean-Baptiste Arban.
A feisty kid from Brooklyn plays lead trumpet with Count Basie, hangs with Dizzy and Lady Day, and then at 85, starts his own band.
Here a great solo played by Louis Armstrong. It’s not so difficult to play but it needs some strong chops… The solo starts after one minute.…
A great workshop by Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste talking about the beginnings of jazz.
I gave 3 of my favorite eBooks a new cover. You will find them in my webshop. Here some freebies from these books.
Here some clips of Maynard Ferguson in his early years. What a chops and talent he had!