Up-Grade! Trumpet

This book is perfect for those people looking for something to bridge the gap between grades. This is the latest addition to Pamela Wedgwood’s supremely successful Up-Grade! Series and it is guaranteed to breathe new life into a student’s trumpet playing. The varied pieces and duets in this sparkling new collection range from toe-tapping jazzy numbers to more classical styles all designed to ease the player gently on towards the next grade. This book is for Grades 1-2.

Although primarily designed for trumpet these exercises can be played by any treble brass instrument. This book complements any tutor book by consolidating areas which tutor books do not have room to cover. Of particular note is the way each section starts with very simple exercises providing a large amount of material for complete beginners which is simply unavailable elsewhere. The famous 'Arban Method' is hugely popular for any player above grade 5 standard but there is nothing comparable for beginners.Arban Lite is far more comprehensive than anything else on the market and covers all areas of technique and musicianship which any pupil will encounter upto grade 5 and covering areas which pupils previously had to buy a multitude of separate books.

A diploma candidate's guide to exam success: Trumpet DipABRSM.Foreword Quick Studies can be the bête noir of DipABRSM examination candidates. This need not be the case but confidence in this area will not come overnight. Nor should the Quick Study be seen as merely a longer version of the sight-reading tests encountered in the graded exam syllabus. One key difference is that a Quick Study needs to sound reasonably robust more like a 'learned' piece and less like a sketch or outline. Too many hesitations or passages bogged down by note-searching will cost you dearly while uncertain tonality coupled with woolly rhythms will undoubtedly nosedive your attempt.Misjudged tempi inobservance of critical expression markings or significant shortcomings in musical or stylistic awareness are also more than likely to jeopardise success. If it doesn't resemble a performance to you it won't to the examiners!Bearing in mind that a typical Quick Study will approximate to Grade 6 in the musical and technical demands it makes of you it should hardly be an undue cause for concern irrespective of whether you are taking a diploma in performing or teaching. After all by this point in your musical life you will have doubtless come across a sizeable number of pieces at this relatively modest level and being able to get to grips with such a piece in a short time frame is surely a reasonable expectation for a prospective diploma candidate living in the 'real world'. Diplomas are after all the first rungs on the professional ladder for a Classical musician emphatically not a grade 9 and as such they demand a significant gearing-up in mental attitude. You'll need to think more analytically not just instinctively. This new series of books targets the Quick Study head-on: all freshly composed pieces with the exam kept firmly in mind. It is not a solution in itself nor a means of short-circuiting the skills you will need to develop but a practice tool to steer you in the right direction. The

Grades -4-Teacher's Notes: These carefully graded pieces have been designed to help your pupils with their reading skills from elementatry to grade 3 - 4. The scale melodies will help to develop a feeling for keys and tonality. The pieces have no performance markings and you and your pupils are encouraged to add these as part of the learning experience. The chord symbols throughout are in concert pitch and offer the opportunity to add a live keyboard or guitar accompaniment.These pieces are designed to be both enjoyable performance material and a helpful teaching resource and the scale melodies will make preparation for examinations a more rewarding and musicalexperience.Student's Notes: Every piece has a full performance track and an accompaniment track on the companion CD. Listen to the performance tracks and try to copy what you hear - for example what do you notice about the quavers (eighth notes) in Pogo Stick and Swingin' - are they the same? Use your ears.Play along with the accompaniment tracks with as much style as you can and most importantly Have Fun!This book was originally published by Harlequin Music Cambridge in 2000.

Grades 1-5 excluding Trombone-The volumes in this series provide much practice material for candidates preparing for the Associated Board examinations. The tests in each grade have been carefully written to explore as fully as possible the parameters of that grade and for Grades 1-5 there is a logical progression of technical aspects (rhythm time signatures and so forth) which will give pupils confidence in their playing. Clearly printed and attractively bound each volume offers invaluable preparatory assistance to examination candidates.

15 awesome solos from ABBA to Aladdin. This volume features 15 songs in a range of styles from pop and classical to film and musical theatre. The pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide the perfect light relief from exam practice. The songs in this collection appear in order of difficulty, for students at Grade 1 level. Each song is presented with teaching notes to help you improve your performance. The price includes fully orchestrated backing and demo tracks, available to download or stream online, and rich, playable piano accompaniments, which can be downloaded as A4-size PDFs. To help you practice, the audio tracks can be sped up, slowed down and looped using Playback .

New Edition-Trumpet Basics is a landmark method for individual and group learning by one of the leading figures in trumpet education John Miller. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2 level. There are 22 stages and each section includes a wonderful variety of concert pieces from the great composers traditional tunes and fun original exercises finger gyms and warm ups to help establish a sound technique factfiles and quizzes to teach notation and general musicianship helpful clear fingering charts and rhythm boxes and great illustration. This particular book has been written for B-flat Trumpet or Cornet.

Pop Duets for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade 3-4. Alternate passages and notation are included to suit instrumental ranges. With no page turns required, the songs and measures are consistent which makes finding rehearsal points quick and convenient. Perfect for concerts with family and friends, recitals, auditions, and festivals. Available for brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion. / Trompette

Howard Shore-A fantastic selection of twelve highlights from Howard Shore's wonderful score to the three blockbusting Lord of the Rings movies: The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers Return of the King with you as the soloist! Arranged here for Trumpet this volume comes complete with a terrific CD of demonstration and backing tracks to help with practice and enrich solo performance. Suitable for Trumpet students from Grade 2 upwards. Contains full colour stills from the movie.

Trumpet-Trinity College London's Music Tracks is an innovative new programme for young musicians who learn in whole-class and small-group environments. This book features pieces that have been specially comissioned for the Small Group Tracks exam series in a variety of exciting styles with guidance notes on each piece.The book also contains a CD with high quality backing tracks for all pieces and for practice musicianship tests. Small Group Tracks books and exams are available at Initial Track 1 and Track 2 level (equivalent to Initial Grade 1 and Grade 2).

'Trumpet Basics' is a landmark method by one of the leading figures in trumpet education John Miller. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2 level. There are 22 stages and each section includes a wonderful variety of concert pieces from the great composers traditional tunes and fun original exercises 'finger gyms' and 'warm ups' to help establish a sound technique 'factfiles' and 'quizzes' to teach notation and general musicianship helpful clear 'fingering charts' and 'rhythm boxes' and great illustration. This teacher's book offers tips on how to approach new techniques and motivate young players alongside duet parts andsimple piano acommpaniment. This book would be particularly helpful for teachers who are not Trumpet specialists.