Recommended Books and Music


Buy these methods:

Arban's Complete Conservatory Method
The Max Schlossberg Method
Allen Vizutti Trumpet Method vol. I and II


Buy these chop-building books:

James Stamps's Warm-ups and Studies
Roy Poper's Guide to the Brasswind Methods of James Stamp (This book is a necessity to use the Stamp book without a private teacher, which you probably shouldn't do anyway.)
The Original Louis Maggio System for Brass by Carlton MacBeth
Musical Calisthenics for Brass by Carmine Caruso


Buy these lip slur books:

Twenty-Seven Groups of Exercises by Earl D. Irons
Advanced Lip Flexibility for Trumpet by Charles Colin
Lip Flexibilities on the Trumpet by Walter Smith
Trumpet Skills by Robert Nagel

Buy these scale study books:

Technical Studies for the Cornet by H.L. Clarke
Technical Studies for the Modern Trumpet by Pat Harbison
Exercises and Etudes by Bobby Shew
Speed Studies by Robert Nagel


Buy these etude books:

Bach for the Trumpet or Cornet by Michael J. Gisondi
Practical Studies for the Trumpet by Edwin Franko Goldman
Twenty Four Characteristic Studies by Herbert L. Clarke
Selected Studies for Cornet or Trumpet by H. Voxman
Twenty Melodic and Technical Studies for Trumpet by L.J. Vannetelbosch
36 Etudes Transcendantes by Theo Charlier


Buy these jazz books/jazz playalongs:

Jamey Aebersold vol. 54 Maiden Voyage
The Art of Jazz Trumpet by John McNeil
Creative Jazz Improvisation by Scott D. Reeves
Patterns for Jazz by Jerry Coker
The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine


Start your solo library with:

Nine Grands solos de Concert for Trumpet and Piano Compiled by Georges C. Mager
Concerto for Trumpet by Jan Neruda

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