Progressive Trumpet covers all aspects of Trumpet playing and learning music in a progressive manner. Examples demonstrate a variety of musical styles with an emphasis on both classical music andimprovisation.This book is suitable for anyone who wants to learn to play the Trumpet or Cornet and includes a chart listing all fingerings for both instruments.

Mark Vega?s Jazz Solo Series for Trumpet is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book, starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book. Sections include: Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions. Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions. Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight, Take The A Train, and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. Recordings of the choruses of the above pieces, repeated for convenient practicing. A selected discography of Mark?s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.

Developing students are presented with the essential elements of H.L. Clarke's Technical Studies for the Cornet in this clear and easy-to-follow introductory book.Editor Sea O'Loughlin has maintained the original musical and technical intent but carefully adapted the materials for the younger player. In particular My First Clarke is organized by key signature rather than by the technical exercise. This approach better integrates the techniques of Clarke's studies by paralleling the usual progression of learning the instrument.