Sound the Trumpet: How to Blow Your Own Horn, 4th ed. (Paperback)
by Jonathan Harnum, PhD
Paperback. 236 pages. Reviews. Sample.
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Packed with information no trumpet player should be without. The style is always friendly and often funny. Chapters are short, well-paced and enjoyable. Take advantage of the Bonus Material, including recordings and other online content.
Whether you’re new to the world of trumpet or an experienced player who needs to bone up on your rusty skills, or whether you need a fun way to teach trumpet, you’ll find this book valuable. Music educators have found this book to be very helpful in their college methods classes and as a practicing teacher.
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FREE SHIPPING TO: USA, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT Essential lessons for comeback players, mid-level players, and all beginners. Covers tone production, breathing, tongue use, written music, how to practice, and more essentials to get you started right. Don't forget the free video lessons from the supporting site: Essential Trumpet Lessons Essential Trumpet Lessons is written by Jonathan Harnum, a player and teacher with over 35 years of experience and a PhD in music education from Northwestern University. |
FREE SHIPPING TO: USA, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT Essential lessons for comeback players, mid-level players, and motivated beginners. This book covers lip slurs, playing in tune, extending range, practice, mouthpieces, mutes, how to safely clean your horn, and great music to play to boost your growing skills. Learn more. Essential Trumpet Lessons was written by Jonathan Harnum, a player and teacher with over 35 years of experience and a PhD in music education from Northwestern University. Don't forget the free video lessons from the supporting site: Essential Trumpet Lessons. |
FREE SHIPPING: USA, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT Make fast progress with easy lessons used by a teacher and player with over 35 years of experience. Master crucial skills used by the best players in any genre of music. Lessons are short, well-paced and enjoyable. Learn how to increase endurance and range, learn sound effects like falls, doits, bends, shakes, growls and the horse whinny, how (and what) to practice, tech for trumpeters, audition lists. The book also includes the usual fingering charts, tracking forms, as well as scales and patterns. Don't forget the free video lessons from the supporting site: Essential Trumpet Lessons. |
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By Donald G. Young "Don Young" (Cranford, NJ USA)
This book is the most thorough treatment of the various aspects of trumpet playing that I have seen. Very informative and helpful. Even my current teacher, who has played with the Metropolitan Opera (NYC), was impressed.
By Stephen T. Terhune (Arnold, md USA)
This book is not only enjoyable and info-packed it will remain in my music library as a great reference book. I have been buying a lot of trumpet books lately and, thanks to Amazon reviews, have been very fortunate in my selections.
This one,though, is a standout. One of the threads through a number of the books I have read is that,as in this book, the writer really projects a love for the instrument.
- getting your first sounds
- buzzing
- breathing
- lip slurs
- mutes and their use
- how to practice
- cleaning the horn
- useful gear
- range
- endurance
- double- and triple-tonguing
- circular breathing
- transposing (C, D, Eb, etc.)
- pedal tones
- cool sound effects (growls, flutter tongue, half-valve, doits, falls, horse whinny, etc.)
- extensive lists of recordings in all genres (no Country trumpet recordings are included)
- extensive lists of sheet music for trumpet (divided by difficulty)
- practice tools
- some of these tools are freely available in PDF form, too.
- a didgeridoo lesson
