Chops (The Ultimate Guide to Building Tone, Technique and Flexibility) - Trumpet (TROMPETTE)

Frank T. Williams

ISBN 10: 0825890209 ISBN 13: 9780825890208

Publisher: Carl Fischer, 2012

Chops: The Ultimate Guide to Building Tone, Technique and Flexibility is a thorough method for brass instruments written by Frank Williams, one of the most respected brass pedagogues in the world. These exercises are not glamorous, but they are the vegetables that all brass players must eat in order to improve their tone, technique and flexibility. This is a one-of-a-kind collection of exercises and insights into mastering the skills necessary to be a solid player on a brass instrument. Williams students are living proof that these exercises work, students, high school bands, award-winning drum and bugle corps, current composers, band directors, and professional musicians, including Mike Roylance, tubist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. With diligent work, Chops will help current students succeed too.

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Chops: The Ultimate Guide to Building Tone, Technique and Flexibility is available for both trumpet and trombone. Written by Frank T. Williams, these exercises are the vegetables that all brass players must eat in order to improve their tone, technique and flexibility. This is a one-of-a-kind collection of exercises and insights into mastering the skills necessary to be a solid player on a brass instrument. Williams' students range from private students, high school bands, award-winning drum and bugle corps, current composers, band directors, and professional musicians, including Mike Roylance, tubist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. --Music Merchandise Review December 2012

Carl Fischer's new Chops: The Ultimate Guide to Building Tone, Technique and Flexibility is available for both trumpet and trombone. Written by Frank T. Williams, a brass pedagogue, these exercises help brass players improve their tone and technique. --Music Inc. Magazine, February 2013

Carl Fischer's Chops: The Ultimate Guide to Building Tone, Technique and Flexibility is available for both trumpet and trombone. These exercises are designed as fundamental tools to improve musicians' tone, technique, and flexibility. Author Frank T. Williams' students are proof of the effectiveness of these exercises, ranging from private students, high school bands, award-winning drum and bugle corps, current composers, band directors, and professional musicians, including Mike Roylance, tubist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Williams has been an educator for nearly three decades, teaching at the junior high, high school, and college levels. He recently retired from his position as director of bands at Boca Ciega High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his jazz ensembles consistently received superior ratings throughout his tenure. Mr. Williams has also been involved in the drum corps and marching band arena for over 20 years. He is the former Brass Caption Head for the world champion The Cadets drum and bugle corps; Suncoast Sound drum and bugle corps; and magic drum and bugle corps; and is presently a brass consultant for the Glassmen drum and bugle corps. --School Band and Orchestra, November 2012

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