Brad Edwards's The Intermediate Trumpeter: Building Blocks for Tone and Technique is designed to bridge the gap between a beginning method and advanced study materials. Its five main sections cover lip slurs, pattern-building, lyrical legato, varied articulation, and simple tunes in multiple keys. A suggested plan of study draws from these areas in parallel, making the book useful for balanced weekly lesson assignments rather than completing one skill before addressing another.
The material includes a daily warm-up, twenty lip-slur exercises, forty pattern-building exercises, forty lyrical etudes, forty articulation etudes, and twenty tunes explored in different keys. Appendices address tuning, half-step lip bends, high-register development, chromatic patterns, and practice habits.
Edwards developed this trumpet volume with input from trumpet specialists, rather than simply changing the clef of a trombone book. The 130-page method is published by Hornbone Press.
Brad Edwards's The Intermediate Trumpeter: Building Blocks for Tone and Technique is designed to bridge the gap between a beginning method and advanced study materials. Its five main sections cover lip slurs, pattern-building, lyrical legato, varied articulation, and simple tunes in multiple keys. A suggested plan of study draws from these areas in parallel, making the book useful for balanced weekly lesson assignments rather than completing one skill before addressing another.
The material includes a daily warm-up, twenty lip-slur exercises, forty pattern-building exercises, forty lyrical etudes, forty articulation etudes, and twenty tunes explored in different keys. Appendices address tuning, half-step lip bends, high-register development, chromatic patterns, and practice habits.
Edwards developed this trumpet volume with input from trumpet specialists, rather than simply changing the clef of a trombone book. The 130-page method is published by Hornbone Press.