Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet

Description

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet

By Eddie Lewis

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet is an intermediate composition for two trumpets in the swing style. It was originally composed as a birthday gift to one of our students.

The trumpet duet has two main themes and then goes to a call and response section based on the first theme. If you are familiar with my other duets, then you may have seen these call and response sections in other duets. Both trumpet players take turns playing “calls” between each of the “responses”.

Thrive ‘n’ Jive is probably one of my grooviest trumpet duets and we hope you enjoy working on it and playing it with your trumpet friends.

The key signature for Thrive ‘n’ Jive is two flats, but the key is a C blues. I guess you can say that it’s a dorian blues, even though there aren’t any standard 12 bar blues progressions in the piece.

I don’t often use a blues scale in my writing (or in my improve for that matter). I use what I would call “blues language” instead. When I’m choosing a key signature for a piece, I look at the language and decide from that. If I wrote from the blues scale, then it would be essentially writing from the key. The musical thought comes first, and then the music theory follows.

Trumpet Player Skill Level

The most obvious aspect of the Trumpet Player Skill Level is that the highest note G above the staff. Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet follows this convention. As cool as it sounds, there is nothing written above G above the staff.

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet does utilize rhythms that most intermediate students will need to work on. There are lots of anticipations and stylistic jazz stuff.

Practice Suggestions

Here are a few recommendations for working on Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet.

• Practice learning to play in the swing style first.
• Listen to lots of swing music to get the style in your ears.
• Pay close attention to accents.
• Keep good time during your “solos” and be prepared to re-enter the ensemble.

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet Play-Along

There is a free trumpet play-along video for this Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz 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:

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Trumpet Duet Play-Along

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.

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet Score Video

Alternatively, we also have a score video for Thrive ‘n’ Jive 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.

Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet Performance Video

Below is a performance video of Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz 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.