Shermy

I recently bought a copy of Pat Harbison's Trumpetology. I've had it for about two and a half weeks. I've been using it as a warm up and practice on whatever scale the units cover. I have generally been covering all 8 units in whatever section of the book I'm in at one time. I have started from the beginning - D dorian, introductory. Even with it being "introductory" it has really challenged me. The challenge isn't in the passages themselves, it is in being able to sing them before you play them - especially hearing where that first note is, or finding your pitch if you get lost. This alone has really helped me "hear" the chord tones. It takes me about 20 minutes to go through the eight units in each section. I have spent the first week on D dorian, introductory, the second week on D dorian, intermediate, and I just started G dorian, introductory this week.

Here is how the method works. Each unit is played over a 2 1/2 minute track of a rhythm section playing chords in the key of the exercise on a CD (i.e. they play D dorian throughout the first track). You usually rest 4 or 8 measures and then play the same amount of time followed by 4 or 8 measures rest. During the rests you are to sing the upcoming passage.

They make for great warm ups, scale practice, interval practice, and ear training.

After I finish the eight units I then move on to one or two tracks on one of the Jamey Aebersold books.

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