"In presenting these daily studies to the trumpet student, I have endeavored to put all of the essential phases of good trumpet playing into a compact volume. If you can learn to think while you practice you are on the right road to musical proficiency. In practicing scales, the student should not only think of improving his technique, but whould also think of the ariculation of each note and the synchronization of his tongue and fingers." (excerpted Preface by A. Mancini).
Virtuoso trumpeter and violinist Albert Mancini (1899-1987) played trumpet in the US Marine Band, Detroit Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and is the author of several arrangements and etudes for the trumpet.