Trumpet - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.817143
Composed by Charles Decker. 21st Century,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Educational Exercises. 42 pages. Charles Decker Music Press #4303103. Published by Charles Decker Music Press (A0.817143).
Supplemental Practice Alternatives is a thirty-page compilation of alternative practice approaches designed to improve and stabilize essential trumpet performance skills that was developed over four decades of teaching ambitious trumpeters at all levels. These alternative practice approaches provide practical variations and suggestions on how to apply them to the myriad of etude and study books with the objective of advancing and mastering crucial aspects of trumpet performance. Supplemental Practice Alternatives include study approaches for First and Third-Valve Slide Intonation Control; Single and Multiple-Tonguing Consistency Development; Range Expansion Tone Control; Lip Trill and Shake Development; Long-Tone Studies Using Basic Triad and 7th Chord Modes; Developing Quick Modal Transitioning Capability Between Basic Scales (major, minors, whole tone, chromatic); Review of Supplemental Scales Frequently Encountered (whole tone, blues, pentatonic); Advancing Fingering Coordination with emphasis on third-finger control; and two helpful supplements - a review of Common Italian terms Categorized into Meaningful Genres and 25 Practice Suggestions passed on by generations of successful musicians..
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