Another 4 Studies composed by Georg Kopprasch in various keys.
Georg Kopprasch (c. 1800 – c. 1850) was a German composer and horn player primarily known for his second set of sixty horn studies (op. 6), currently used…
11 Staccato Studies (transposed in 9 keys) by Clemente Salviani, originally written for oboe (“Studi per Oboe Vol. IV”), but I adapted them for trumpet. N.B.…
I uploaded 3 solo transcriptions played by Clifford Brown to YouTube. Play along or just listen and read along.
Here are 15 single tonguing exercises I wrote for practicing single tonguing. I think it’s best to practice them with a metronome in a comfortable…
Here an updated transcription of “Confirmation” as played by the great Clifford Brown.
I found some interesting exercises in the Grand Method by Louis A. Saint-Jacome and transposed them in 3 keys.
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…
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…