TheCanadianScreamer

I'm a new player, haven't been playing for a substantially long time but have gotten good in the short time i've been playing. I recently have taken a loving to jazz and it makes me happier playing that than classical does, and i was wondering since i am not thinking of a career in music whether or not keep playing classical. All my instincts tell me to keep playing classical to keep my options open, but i dont see the point. Any opinions.................
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Brekelefuw

Play Jazz all you want, but keep the classical up because it wil teach you valuable skills that you can apply to jazz, like tone production, since jazz has so many different styles, you need to be able to change your sound. You don't want to play an intimate ballad in a club sounding like harry james (unless of course it is a tribute to harry).
Classical will also help you get the proper technique to play all the difficult jazz parts.
I think I read it hear, that Booker Little played all of the ARban Characteristic studies every day. I think that says enough about keeping your classical up, if a guy as great as him did it.

joey

TCS,

You seem to be talking about two different things. Classical vs. Jazz is a stylistic argument. If you want to concentrate on Jazz, then go for it.

Brekelefuw is advising to keep playing 'classical' for good trumpet skills.

Trumpet skills don't come from style. Trumpet skills are trumpet skills. The Clarke Book isn't a 'classical' trumpet book. It's a trumpet book, applicable to all trumpet players, regardless of the style of music they wish to play. Most of the Arban's book is trumpet technique, again applicable to all styles.

When we get to etudes and solos, styles diverge. Surely, the music in the Arban's book is 'classical' in the loosest sense of the word. But when the Arban's book was written (1894), there was no jazz.

If you want some good 'jazz etudes' that will challenge you in the same way as Arban's Characteristic Studies, Charlier, Bitsch, Top-Tones do, try playing transcriptions of jazz solos. Or better yet, transcribe some yourself.

Marc Lewis' book of Clifford Brown solos is a great 'jazz etude' book. Plus, you can listen to the 'etude' by the guy who 'wrote' it.

The fundamentals of the trumpet-great sound, great articulations, great flexibility, great strength and range- do not have a style. Music has style.

ptynan

Ah....


The big question: To be a student of the music or the instrument?

I'd pick both.

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trpt2345

The trumpet was not invented by jazz musicians. It's been around for a long, long time and a lot of brilliant people have spent their whole lives exploring it and coming up with ways to play it in the most efficient manner. Be a student of the instrument and then play whatever the hell you want.

Michael McLaughlin

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