Timofej Dokshizer
Trumpet Method
Integrated exercise system
"This work is subtitled Integrated exercise
system. It could equally be called
Prelude to the art of the trumpet:
it consist, in fact, of a progressive system of
personal exercises which prepare the trumpeter for his work.
Put another way, these exercises constitute only part of a
trumpeters daily practice routine - one third - but this third
is so problematic because it contains so many unknown elements
relating to individual nature and to the specifics of the
instrument."
Contents
- Foreword
- How the Method works and how to use it
An approach which takes into account individual abilities
Allocation of practice time
Lips
Breathing
How to organise your life style: work, rest, diet
- How to use the exercises
How do you put together integrated sessions?
Signs used in this method
- Chapter I: Warming up
Exercises
Warming up before playing
- Chapter II: Vocalises
How to work on tone
Lip muscle strenght an endurance
The high register
The low register
Easy vocalises
To strengthen the lips an develop breathing, tone, extension of range
Long notes
Crescendo-diminuendo notes
- Chapter III: Sequential patterns
Flexibility of lips, tongue and fingers
Intervals
- Suppleness and elasticity of the lips
Trills
- Finger trills on a tone
- Finger trills on a semitone
- Lip and finger trills
- Lip trills with right-hand vibrato
Short studies
- Attack in orchestral fanfares
- Legato with soft attack for difficult intervals
- Lip suppleness, finger mobility, glissando
- Ornaments and appogiaturas
Miscellaneous studies
- Appendix: Stutter attack
1990 ALHONSE LEDUC & Co
1994 Editions Musicales
(the english translation by Wendy Thompson)
This book can be ordered from:
ITC
Case Postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Switzerland (Fax 027 43 42 43)
