A Tune a Day - Cornet or Trumpet: Book 1

been around for years. good tutor.

I did not find it as inspiring as I thought I would, but this method's been around forever and it works well for a lot of people.

Great for initial exercises, but it doesn't have any advise for embouchure for the learner.

good starting book

The original book from years ago was terrific and Hal Leonard has obfuscated it. It was printed in Boston so why is it using British terms? A child cannot use this book without an adult.

Delivered well! Thanks!

This has made learning trumpet ab initio (and so far without a teacher) so so much fun. On my second day (yesterday) I was actually playing the national anthem! (Yes really, my boyfriend recognised it to be the national anthem!) It has a lot of melodies on every page, even starting when you can still only play three notes. This book is also good if it's your first instrument as it teaches you the basics of music theory (what is a crotchet all the way up to difficult time signatures - useful for if you want to play jazz eventually and have never read music before). It has little music theory homework exercises for you to do, like writing out melodies in different rhythms. It also has advice on how to keep your trumpet clean and so on. Also I should mention that this book gives you the same melodies weeks later but in harder key signatures - it's really fun and also useful as you know what it should sound like. Interestingly (and this isn't a criticism) there are a large number of Christmas carols in this book. I guess that's because carols are usually simple rhythms with a small range. After two days, I can now play no less than 5 Christmas carols... in April... my poor neighbours. ...I also highly recommend this chap on youtube who gives good advice about how to get a good embouchure [...] as I really struggled to get the different notes that had the same fingering at first (well, I still am but he helped a lot). Right, here goes for day three!

A very nice book indeed. Plus it seem to be a classic! Surely a great help to learn the first tones and elementary music theory. Sadly, it lacks a CD.

Basically the same book hubby used many years ago when learning to play. Perfect book to go with a trumpet, that's going to be handed down to our son, to teach his daughter to play one day