My Only Love Trumpet Duet No. 2 in 40 Trumpet Player Duets

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[Note: My Only Love Trumpet Duet is included with the Forty Trumpet Player Duets book.]

My Only Love Trumpet Duet

By Eddie Lewis

Forty Trumpet Player Duets book

The My Only Love trumpet duet is number two in our Forty Trumpet Player Duets book. This is a book of intermediate trumpet duets that fit into our Trumpet Player Skill Level. They are listed largely in order of difficulty, so My Only Love is one of the easiest in the book.

If you like My Only Love and would like a book of dozens of similar trumpet duets, then we encourage you to visit the Forty Trumpet Player Duets page on this website.

We would also like to encourage you to check out our other duet books as well by clicking HERE (Trumpet Duet Books). We currently publish six different trumpet duet books (as of 2023).

Trumpet Player Skill Level

The most obvious aspect of the Trumpet Player Skill Level is that the highest note is written G above the staff. All of the duets in the Forty Trumpet Player Duets book, including this My Only Love trumpet duet, observe this restriction. There are six Gs in the first part and nothing higher.

In the second part, the highest written note is fourth space E.

Aside from some syncopated rhythms, the rest of My Only Love trumpet duet is all quarter-notes and half-notes with a few eighth-notes sprinkled in there. If the range was lower, we would have put this trumpet duet in the duet book for the Trumpet Tyro Skill Level (Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets).

Please keep in mind that the music listed at a certain skill level is not meant to be sight read by musicians of that skill level. They are meant to be practiced. Sight reading should be done at least one skill level lower than the trumpet player’s current level.

Practice Suggestions

Here are a few recommendations for working on this trumpet duet of My Only Love.

• Watch your phrasing and breathing.
• Pay close attention to dynamics.
• Dolce means “sweet”, so play the duet smoothly and melodically.
• Use your third valve slide on the appropriate notes beneath the staff.
• Use vibrato to make it sound like a love song.

My Only Love Trumpet Duet Play-Along

There is a free trumpet play-along video for this My Only Love Trumpet Duet. We publish these free play-along videos for educational purposes, but they also offer a wonderful opportunity for prospective buyers to take the piece for a “test drive”.

Click the following button to go to that video:

My Only Love Trumpet Duet Play Along Video

If you are interested in more of these play-along videos, then the best way to access them is on our other website, EddieLewis.com.

Free Trumpet Play-Along Videos

My Only Love Trumpet Duet Score Video

Alternatively, we also have a score video for My Only Love that you can access by clicking HERE. The score allows you to see and hear the duet before you purchase it.

You can use the score video as a substitute for the play-along video. You can even use it to play the second part. But that’s not what it’s for. It’s meant to give you an opportunity to look and hear the piece.

My Only Love Trumpet Duet Performance Video

Below is a performance video of My Only Love Trumpet Duet. The purpose of the performance video is so that you can see that the parts are genuinely playable. In our modern times, it is too easy to write music on computers without ever knowing if the music works. We make these live performance videos to demonstrate that the duets are indeed accessible.