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Summary: Great Great Great
Review: A must have for students of the trumpet. This book has it all- many etudes, drills, patterns, and solos. Material for working on any problem/need for the trumpet player.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE TRUMPET METHOD FOR EVERY TRUMPETER !
Review: Arban Book is the best book for trumpet ever written. It will guide through the whole process of learning from the beginning to the virtuoso playing. If you don`t have yet BUY IT NOW ! If you have any questions you can e-mail me at trumpettime@hotmail.com
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Summary: Trumpter's Bible
Review: I am a trumpet player of 23 years experience, and the Arban book is the "bible" for every trumpet player. It's focus is on "disciplined" music, and can give you a good baseline for moving into improv. Many clinic and all-state tryout pieces came out of this book tried by time. It would take years to master its total contents. I was playing "new" pieces out of it last night! It will also help keep you from buying dozens of etude books. The book is very methodical with each section introduced in several languages. There is no player who won't be challenged by it's content. It will carry you from middle school through college and waaaaaaaaay beyond. Looking for some of it's inspiration? Check out Wynton Marsalis' "Carnival" CD on Amazon!
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Summary: Great Great Great
Review: I am a trumpet player, but I also play french horn, euphonium, tuba, trombone, piano, and quitar. In other words, music is my breath and I reccomend this book to everyone who wants to get better at any brass instrument. No matter how good you are, this book will make you better. It will improve your range, style, tone quality, and rhythm. Use the etudes to practice tounging, slurs, rhythms, and reange. The more you do, the better you will get. This is THE brass textbook. I also reccomend 40 progressive etudes (studies) for trumpet by Sigmund Hering. In addition to this book, that book will give you some fun exercises and it will really show your progress. I reccomend both of these books as must-haves for every brass player.
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Summary: Complete and essential
Review: I have used this book quite a lot, and I am not too thrilled with it. While true that this book has exercises for every technique ever, I use it only as a side line for things, never as a focus. The book gets boring for students very very fast, with it's extreme repetative style, and I personally don't like the way Arban arranges music at all, every song is the same to me. I find that this book is to overwhelming for beginner players most of the time too. What I recommend most of the time is play solo songs that you enjoy, practice them, and when you come to a trouble spot in it, find an exercise in Arbans that can help you work it out. Definitly a good book, and is always helpful in a trumpeters library, but NOT my trumpet Bible.
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Summary: The book to use if you desire to play a brasswind horn well.
Review: If you can play the execises in this book well, you are ready to demand money for your musical talent. Although the techniques are dated, the exercises are not--ranging from the easy to the impossible.
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Summary: This is one of the classics of brass teaching methods.
Review: Jean Baptiste Arban was one of the first virtuosi of the cornet, and Arban's trumpet method is known by virtually every trumpet/cornet player (and most brass players) on the planet. This book should be in every trumpet player's library. The sections for novices have been surpassed by other teaching methods, but this book can be used by trumpeters at all levels on a daily basis.The introduction is periodically updated by significant trumpet players of the day, whose comments are of historic interest, if not always offering sound technical advise. Supplemented by the trumpet/cornet books of Herbert L. Clarke (another giant in the world of brass players), you may never need to buy another set of practice books!
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Summary: Trumpet Player's Bible
Review: Simply stated, all students of the trumpet should own (and use) this book. Arban was one of the finest cornet players of all time. Here, in a telephone book-sized manual, his legacy lives on. There is nothing, "overnight" or "within minutes" about this book and it will not magically transform a hack on a banged-up King into a Professional Orchestral Instrumentalist. However, it provides much of what is required for a serious student to become a proficient and even masterful technical player. All students, right down to beginners, should have this book within reach. Go ahead and buy your child the Rubank series, but don't forget to buy the Arban's!
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Summary: Trumpet Player's Bible
Review: Simply stated, all students of the trumpet should own (and use) this book. Arban was one of the finest cornet players of all time. Here, in a telephone book-sized manual, his legacy lives on. There is nothing, "overnight" or "within minutes" about this book and it will not magically transform a hack on a banged-up King into a Professional Orchestral Instrumentalist. However, it provides much of what is required for a serious student to become a proficient and even masterful technical player. All students, right down to beginners, should have this book within reach. Go ahead and buy your child the Rubank series, but don't forget to buy the Arban's!
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Summary: Every serious trumpet player owns this book
Review: This is the most well-known trumpet instructional book of all time. I still shake my head in amazement with what Jean B. Arban put down in writing--long tones, scales, double and triple tongueing, etudes, duets, etc. It's all wonderful! If you can play all the characteristic studies at the end, you'll be better than about 85% of the trumpet players on the earth. Unfortunately, and only because of the era in which Arban wrote the book, the book is weak in a couple of areas that the modern trumpeter needs--lip flexibility and high register. I still unequivocally recommend this book. If you are serious about playing the trumpet, you don't need my word on this--you already own this book.
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