| Re: Trumpet Pedagogy
Ed,
To expand on positive negative idea (which i'm guessing is training low to train high), this summer with a Thibaud student, Jean-Jacques Gaudon, I did a Stamp extension down to double pedal C, and up to double high C with a lip trill then back down again. Amazingly, after a few weeks, I could actually do it.
I recently found an old copy of Robert Nagel's drill/routine book and it is well worth a look if anyone can still find it. Things of note are a certain tweak to approaching pedals. He suggests keeping the same fingering when switching between low and pedal register. So you take descending arpeggios, F ie and play the pedal F 12 like the A. In this way the transition works better, for me at least. He also has a sections of glissandos (rips maybe) from the lowest partial with all fingerings to the partial two octaves above and back down.
I also found a few really old daily routing pamphlets, not even books by Goldman and Smith. Kind of a trip.
Matt |