I found some free (etude) books for cornet/trumpet on the web: Bousquet “36 Celebrated Studies for the cornet” Edwin Franko Goldman “Practical studies for the…
Author: erikveldkamp
There were many great lead trumpet players, Snooky Young, Bernie Glow, Al Porcino, Ernie Royal, John Audino to name a few, but my number one…
3 years after I bought my R2 trumpet, it was time to visit Hub van Laar’s shop again. My trumpets needed to be cleaned and…
Bone2Pick Sarah’s Horn Hangouts Bob Reeves Podcast: The Other Side of the Bell Fred Hall’s SWING THING
I started practicing double tonguing again so I wrote some new exercises to help me with that. Click to download: 10 Double Tonguing Exercises Click to…
Arnold Jacobs and Bill Adam were teaching exactly what I’ve been doing al my trumpet playing life. Here some clips of Arnold Jacobs’ great teaching: I can recommend…
I found this amazing interpretation of this composition on Youtube played by Anthony Caillet on euphonium, so I made a part for Bb trumpet (see…
We just finished our winter tour for this year. We had lot’s of succes and many great concerts in Prague, Hamburg, Graz and Vienna to…
As you can see I overhauled my website. It was time to create the website in WordPress instead of Freeway, which worked fine, but is…
These great birds are hiberating in my area so the last couple of days I was busy photographing them just after sunrise. They are only…
This album of Clifford Brown has some of his earliest recordings on it. I transcribed 6 of them: “Stockholm Sweetnin’”, “Philly J”, “Falling In Love With Love”,…