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!
A beautiful valse written by Frédéric Chopin. I’ve adapted it for piccolo trumpet in A, but you can play it on every trumpet of course…
Here the Andante from Schichardt’s Opus 20 – Sonata V. I made a backing track for the Bb trumpet transposition.
Here another Allemande written by Jean Christiaen Schickhardt. He wrote this music for flute or oboe or violin and basso continuo and but I transposed this…