Includes extended text on technical aspects of trumpet playing such as warm-ups, practice sessions, rehearsal vs performance, warming down, value of repetition, time, "pre-hearing" the sound, breath support, inhaling/exhaling, tonguing, embouchure, fingering, extreme registers, equipment (mouthpieces/instruments), developing the jazz language, and more. Also included is scale syllabus and recommended reading and listening lists for modern jazz trumpet playing. Contains exercises relative to long tone spreading interval studies, scales/argeggios in whole tones, diminished/augmented scales, various modes (dorian, lydian, etc), and combinations of each. 78 pages. -pc
Jazz trumpeter, educator, composer, clinician and recording artist Pat Harbison taught at University of Cincinnati and currently teaches at Indiana University.