No comments about Standard of Excellence: First Performance Plus 1st / 2nd Trumpet / Cornet (Trumpet / Cornet).

1 comments about The Rough Guide to Trumpet and Trombone Tipbook (Rough Guide Tipbooks).

1. Usually one who begin to learn trumpet does not know much about instrument itself. Many method book only describes shortly about this. Even there is no explaination! This tipbook may be the supplement for such problems. After reading this book, even novice can buy instrument by himself. I recommend this book not to only player but to the musician who is run for both knowledge and technique. This book has many good illustrations and is very readable.

No comments about Learn to Play the Clarinet: An Illustrated Step-by-step Instructional Guide (Learn to Play).

No comments about Twenty-Seven Groups of Exercises for Cornet and Trumpet.

No comments about Tom Harrell - Jazz Trumpet Solos Collection.

No comments about Music Minus One Soprano, Alto, Tenor or Baritone Saxophone, Trumpet or Clarinet: Blue Saxe (Sheet Music and CD).

No comments about Big Book of Instrumental Songs (Trumpet) (Big Book (Hal Leonard)).

No comments about 15 Top Jazz Duets Trumpet.

No comments about POPULAR HITS: TRUMPET (BIG BAND PLAY-ALONG V2) BKCD (Big Band Play-Along).

2 comments about A Mouthpiece Buzzing Routine for Trumpet.

1. Not particularly helpful. Need to buy his special buzzing mouthpiece to use the book.



2. Trumpet playing is something that's consumed all but four years of my life...more than half a century. Professional? No, more like semi-professional. And I faced the same problem every trumpet player will face at some point: it just wasn't working well, easily, pleasurably. Lynn Asper's work came to my attention through the recommendation of another trumpet player, someone I admired and trusted. I also had the great good fortune of living close enough to Lynn so that I could take advantage of some lessons. That's when I came into contact with "A Moutpiece Buzzing Routine for Trumpet" and his earlier work, "A Physical Approach to Playing the Trumpet." My question was then "Where were you when I started playing so that I could have done it right, right from the start?" Well, a silly question, but the teaching embodied herein is not silly. It's so foundational and so fundamental that it is now a part of my everyday warmup and practice. It might also be a value to yours. The result for me has been better playing, more endurance, better sound, and a highly focused approach to the art. Asper offers a no-nonsense approach, demystifying the science of making good sound in a way that will strengthen and not tear down the embouchure of the player.
   
   Certainly Asper makes and sells mouthpiece vizualizers but there's no reason you can't make your own if you have the tools and skills (maybe something like a Rotozip?). I don't. I bought one and it has become the centerpoint of my warmup. It's a tool that works and allows me to see what I'm doing in a way nothing else does.
   
   I recommend Mr. Asper and his body of work to anyone who wants to seriously study the instrument. His goal is to create better players, happier players, men and women who want to make joyful music all their lives.