Top Trumpet Method Books for Every Level — Build Technique, Range, and Musical Mastery
TRUMPET METHOD BOOKS
Below are a listing of popular method books:
My Three Books:
Droste: The Ultimate Warm Up For Trumpet (Windy Town)
Droste: The Ultimate Wedding Book For Trumpet (Windy Town)
Droste: The Ultimate Technical Study Trumpet (Windy Town)
Elementary Methods
Clarke: Elementary Studies (C. Fischer)
Pearson: Standard of Excellence, Book 1
Gordon: Physical Approach to Elementary Brass Playing (C. Fischer)
Lautzenheiser: Essential Elements for Band, Book 1
Longinotti: l'Etude de la trompette (Editions Henn)
Johnson: The Art of Trumpet Playing
Ridgeon: Brass for Beginners (Boosey & Hawkes)
Robinson: Rubank Elementary Method (Rubank)
Wiggins: First Tunes & Studios (Oxford)
MEDIUM TO MEDIUM-DIFFICULT
Arban: Complete Conservatory Method, ed. Goldman and Smith (C. Fischer)
Bordogni: 24 Vocalises, trans. Porret (transposition) (A. Leduc)
Bousquet: 36 Celebrated Studies, ed. Goldman (C. Fischer)
Brandt: 34 Studies and 24 Last Studies, ed. Vacchiano (Belwin-Mills)
Broiles: Have Trumpet . . . Will Transpose (transposition) (C. Colin)
Chavanne: 25 Characteristic Studies, ed. Voisin (International)
Cichowicz: Flow Studies
Clarke: Technical Studies (C. Fischer)
Clarke: Setting Up Drills (C. Fischer)
Clodomir: Methode complete, ed. Job (A. Leduc)
Colin: Advanced Lip Flexibilities (C. Colin)
Endresen: Supplementary Studies (Rubank)
Gallay: 22 Exercises, ed. Maire (A. Leduc)
Glantz: The Complete Harry Glantz (C. Colin)
Goldman: Practical Studies (C. Fischer)
Gower and Voxman (ed.): Rubank Advanced Method (Rubank)
Hering: 32 Etudes (C. Fischer)
Hovaldt: Lip Flexibility (R. King)
Kopprasch: 60 Studies, ed. Gumbert and Herbst, 2 vols. (C. Fischer)
Laurent: Etudes pratiques, 3 vols. (A. Leduc)
Maniscalco: Leonardo Maniscalco, trumpet player with the Rome Opera House orchestra, has published two books of trumpet etudes. La sonorità e la tecnica, vols 1 and 2. I really like these!!!
Pares: Scales (Rubank)
Rubank: Trumpet Method, Book 2
Sachs: Orchestral Studies - Orchestral Excerpts for Trumpet
Saint-Jacome: Grand Method (C. Fischer)
Salvation Army: 101 Technical Exercises (Salvation Army)
Schlossberg: Daily Drills and Technical Studies (M. Baron)
Skornicka: Rubank Intermediate Method (Rubank)
Smith: Lip Flexibility (C. Fischer)
Staigers: Flexibility Studies, 2 vols. (C. Fischer)
Stamp: Warm-ups plus Studies (Editions Bim)
Vacchiano: Trumpet Routines (C. Colin)
Vizzutti: Trumpet Method Books 1–3 (Alfred)
Zauder: Embouchure & Technique Studies (C. Colin)
DIFFICULT
Andre: 12 Etudes caprices dans le style baroque (piccolo trumpet) (Editions Billaudot)
Balasanyan: 20 Studies, ed. Foveau (International)
Balay: 15 Etudes (A. Leduc)
N. Bizet: 12 Grandes etudes de perfectionnement (A. Leduc)
Bodet: 16 Etudes de virtuosite d'apres J.S. Bach (A. Leduc)
Broiles: Trumpet Baroque, 2 vols. (piccolo trpt.) (Queen City)
Charlier: Etudes transcendantes GET THIS FOR FREE NOW!
Cichowicz: Flow Studies Volume 2
Clarke: Characteristic Studies (C. Fischer)
Duhem: 24 Etudes (C. Fischer)
Gallay: 12 Grand caprices, ed. Maire (A. Leduc)
Gallay: 39 Preludes, ed. Maire (A. Leduc)
Harris: Advanced Studies (C. Colin)
Hickman: The Piccolo Trumpet (Tromba Publications)
Longinotti: Studies in Classical and Modern Style (International)
Petit: 15 Etudes techniques et melodiques (A. Leduc)
Petit: Grandes etudes (A. Leduc)
Sachse: 100 Etudes (transposition) (International)
Smith: Top Tones (C. Fischer)
Webster: Method for Piccolo Trumpet (Brass Press)
Wurm: 40 Progressive Studies for Trumpet
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