John Miller’s Trumpet Basics series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner trumpet players and their teachers.
This edition of Trumpet Basics Pupil’s book (with CD) offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities and of course all the great tunes featured in the original Trumpet Basics. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, it contains:
- a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre
- warm ups and fun original exercises
- invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument
- helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes
- duets throughout – ideal for group teaching
- CD containing piano and trumpet accompaniments to play along with.
Contents:
- Stage 1: Up And Down
- Wavy Line
- First Things First
- Mirror Image
- The First Digit
- No Stopping
- Hippo March
- Stage 2: Happy Harry
- Watch Your Step!
- Haunted House
- Folk Song
- Quick Quick Slow
- Gladiator
- Stage 3: Quick March
- Sad Tale
- Any Old Iron?
- Count As You Play
- Stage 4: Lightly Row
- Mind Your Fingers
- Hansel And Gretel (Humperdinck)
- Stage 5: Simple Song
- That Does It!
- Smooth ‘N’ Groovy
- O When The Saints
- Stage 6: The Green Man
- Old Macdonald’s Echo
- Stage 7: Ode To Joy (Beethoven)
- Lottery Loser
- Stage 8: Smooth As Silk
- Kum Ba Yah
- The Old Temple
- No, No, No, No Geordie Munro
- A Vision For You
- Stage 9: Fish ‘N’ Chips
- Postman Pat
- Carnival Of Venice
- Listening Power
- Stage 10: Woozy Cat Waltz
- Kalinka
- Sunday Best (Nicolai/Bach)
- Stage 11: Yankee Doodle
- In Five
- Simple Gifts
- Stage 12: Jingle Bells
- Concert Pieces: Rondo (Susato)
- Your First Hit Single (Wedgwood)
- The Ballad Of The East Neuk ( Miller)
- Stage 13: Sharpen That Tongue
- Poulton: Aura Lee
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Stage 14: Winter
- The Happy Ending
- Theme From The Godfather (Rota)
- Stage 15: Loch Lomond
- Scarborough Fair
- For His Majesty’s Sagbutts And Cornets
- Stage 16: Can-Can
- Country Dance (Offenbach)
- Promenade (Mussorgsky)
- The First Nowell
- Cornish Dance (Arnold)
- Stage 17: Joy To The World (Handel)
- Frankie And Johnny
- Stage 18: French March (Arban)
- O Sole Mio (Di Capua)
- Stage 19: William Tell (Rossini)
- Blue-Note Blues
- Stage 20: Rock Improvisation
- Concert Pieces: Lancaster Lullaby (Miller)
- Flashback (Wedgwood)
- Twelfth Street Rag (Bowman)
- The Wild Man (Miller)
- Sweeney Todd (Arnold)
