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The Comeback Trumpet Player

A complete step-by-step system that includes everything

you need to build your embouchure, tone, technique, flexibility, tonguing, endurance, range, and musicianship

Whether youve laid-off 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, and especially 20 years or more... this book will

get you in shape and keep you in shape too

by Mark Hendricks www.MPHmusic.com

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Forty-Nine Long Lost Arban Duets For Trumpet (that Arban never wrote!)

The original studies written by J.B. Arban that are the basis for these forty-nine duets are among the most assigned, practiced, played, and

reviewed by all trumpet players - beginner, intermediate, advanced, and pro alike. But there were never duets based on them... until now!

Give It The 3rd Finger - Studies, Etudes, and Duets

101 Trumpet Studies plus 12 matching etudes and duets to make your 3rd finger work right - and your tongue and chops too.

ALL THE NOTES AND MORE! for Trumpet 70 Studies In Each Of The 12 Tonalities To Develop And Maintain Tone,

Tonguing, Technique, Flexibility, Endurance, Range, And More For All Trumpet Players No Matter What Styles You Play

Plus even more great study books and music for various ensembles featuring music by Mark Hendricks. And be sure to

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Contents

How To Use This Book For Best Results (next page) Warm-up Routine 1 Tonality Studies 9 Full Range Studies 57 52 Lessons - The Step-By-Step System 79

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need an Arbans Complete Method for Trumpet book for a part of the 52 Lessons. If you have a copy, please

check it to make sure that the page numbers that I have used in The Comeback Trumpet Player book matches with your Arbans

book. If you need to purchase a copy, here is a link to the edition that I used for this book - www.MPHmusic.com/go/arbans

If your page 125 in your Arbans book is the beginning

of the interval studies and page 285 begins the Characteristic Studies, then youre fine.

Read This First

How To Use This Book For Best Results

The Comeback Trumpet Player book can be used by all trumpet players - whether youve laid-off 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, and especially 20 years or more this book will get you in shape and keep you in shape too. The CTP system consists of four sessions per day: warm-up, tonality study, Arbans book studies, and endurance/range/musicianship studies. This will take approximately two hours per day divided into four sessions, with breaks in between. Dont try to play all of the assignments in one session, you really do need the rest to keep your embouchure fresh all day and ready again for the next day. If you cannot commit to two hours per day, then go with one hour per day and play every other exercise in the lessons on day one, then on day two play the ones you skipped, on day three alternate back to the ones you played on day one, and so on back and forth throughout the week. And spend two weeks on each lesson instead of one week, or longer if needed, when using this pattern. You will need an Arbans book for trumpet that correlates to the page numbers I have used. If you already have a copy, check a few of the lessons to see if your Arbans book page numbers match up to the lessons in this book. The edition that I used for the Comeback Trumpet Player book is a reasonably priced good edition, if you need a copy you can get one here: www.MPHmusic.com/go/arbans Its important that you get involved in playing with other people in various ensembles that you enjoy. These could be duets with friends, playing in your church ensembles, community groups (bands, orchestras, jazz ensembles, brass bands), or college ensembles too. Heres a webpage with a directory to playing opportunities, contact them and get going at making music, dont wait: www.MPHmusic.com/play If youd like to have some help in working through this book or other types of music lessons, consider studying with me via Skype lessons over the internet. You can get more information at this webpage: www.MPHmusic.com/skype

A Few Things To Remember: Be diligent in your practice, you will be rewarded for your discipline by following the routines

in the 52 Lessons - use these lesson plans, this step-by-step system is designed to get you playing better, and much quicker, than a haphazard approach to practicing

Rest as much as you play Rest as much as you play within each practice session, you should still feel good at the end

of each practice session Always strive for a great sound on every note Always play musically - dont just play, make music Slow and good is better than fast and bad - you will learn faster by practicing slowly, then

speed up in small increments to improve your coordination to play faster and still sound good

Practice all of the articulations when indicated (S=Slur, T=Tongue, etc.) Use a metronome to help you improve your coordination as you speed things up If you cant reach some notes, give it three tries and then move on - they will come in time Its okay to play one line at a time and then rest for the same time in the exercises in the

Arbans book - remember, always rest before you need to rest! Play with other people, whether it be duets, trios, quartets, quintets, band, orchestra, jazz

ensemble, church services - get out there and rehearse, perform and make music with others Each lesson can last one week, or two weeks, or whatever time period you are comfortable

with - just keep progressing step-by-step through the lessons - and start with Lesson 1 When you get to the end of the 52 lessons, start at Lesson 1 then do Lesson 52, then 2 and

51, then 3 and 50, and so on until youve done 52 and 1, criss-crossing in the middle. After that use the warm-up and tonality sections daily to keep in shape and progress to other practice materials. You can always return to the CTP system for a review to work on specific areas of your playing, or if you take some time off and need to be a comeback trumpet player all over again

Listen to great trumpet players in all styles of music - this will help you know what a trumpet is supposed to sound like so you can model your sound by emulating the best players around

Have fun!!

If you have any questions, feel comfortable in contacting me at my email address that is on the bottom of each webpage at our website. Go for it and have a great time! Mark Hendricks MPHmusic.com

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Break Rest for at least 30 minutes Session 2 Tonality Study

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