If you're on a tight budget ($30), then I would recommend the Arbans. A few months ago I sat down and figured out how much some of the different method books were, per page. In this way, the Arban book is the best value going.
Here's a list that I put together of a small selection of books. It shows how varied the prices can be, per page.
Tomasi “Six
Etudes pour Trompette”
$1.20/pg
Stamp
“Warm-Ups and Studies”
$0.43/pg
Sachse “28
Studies”
$0.37/pg
Voisin “11
Studies”
$0.37/pg
Snedecor “Lyrical Etudes
for Trumpet” $0.25/pg
Vacchiano “Trumpet Routines”
$0.23/pg
Ricker “Technique
Development in Fourths” $0.21/pg
Higgins “120 Blues
Choruses”
$0.19/pg
Keller “Sonny
Stitt’s Greatest Solos” $0.19/pg
Weiskopf/Ricker “The Augmented Scale”
$0.15/pg
Campbell “Expansions”
$0.15/pg
Blatter/Zonn “Contemporary Trumpet Studies”
$0.15/pg
Ricker “Pentatonic
Scales for Jazz Improv.” $0.13/pg
Carley “Woody
Shaw Jazz Trumpet Solos” $0.12/pg
Farmer “The
Art of Art Farmer”
$0.11/pg
Various “Master
Works for Trumpet”
$0.07/pg
Arban’s
$0.06/pg
Looking at this chart, I would also recommend "Master Works for Trumpet". This is a collection of four or five different etude books into one book. If you'd like publisher info and such, contact me personally.
Also, depending on where you are in your progress, I would recommend:
Getchell - First Book of Practical Studies
and
Potag - Preperatory Melodies for Solo Work
These are the two etude books which I use with my jr. high and early high school students. No, they are not that standard staples, but they progress in a more graduated fashion, making it easier for the students to see the benefits of their work.
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Eddie "Tiger" Lewis
tigerlew@flash.net
Houston, TX
http://www.flash.net/~tigerlew/gcs/