Trumpet Chops Master

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Trumpet Chops Master

by Eddie Lewis

Eddie Lewis struggled to play above the staff for the first ten years of his trumpet career. Notes above high C seemed permanently out of reach.

Sound familiar?

Eddie eventually conquered the upper register, but he did it with familiarity, not strength. Today he calls this approach to chop building the One Range method. It’s a range strategy that encourages one embouchure across all registers. Trumpet Chops Master is part of that method.

Trumpet Chops Master is a daily trumpet routine with exercises up to the E above high C. Every exercise type in the routine expands to that E including the long tones, lip slurs, scales, and articulation studies. This is an advanced book in the One Range method, and we encourage you to explore the other books before you sink your teeth into this one.

Book Number Six

Trumpet Chops Master is the Trumpet Chops book for trumpet players at our sixth skill level. We call this level the Trumpet Master skill level. The most obvious aspect of the Trumpet Master level is its range. The exercises in Trumpet Chops Master cover everything up to the E above high C.

Exercises covered in the book include:

• Lip Buzz
• Mouthpiece Placement
• Mouthpiece Buzz
• Long Tones
• Scales (Tonalization Studies)
• Lip Slurs (Lip Flexibility Exercises)
• Pedal Tones
• Articulation Studies
• Articulation Interval Studies
• Articulation Endurance Etude
• Double Tongue Studies
• Triple Tongue Studies

This exercise order is derived from the Physical Trumpet Pyramid. We have a book about the Physical Trumpet Pyramid, but it is not necessary to know that information for the routine to work. Simply practice the exercises in the order that they appear in the book. The Physical Trumpet Pyramid benefits come from the order, not the exercises themselves.

Deeper Background Information

The Trumpet Chops Master book took me a lot longer to complete than I had expected. The first four books rolled right out and I expected this one to follow suite.

Unfortunately, I ran into some snags along the way and it took me a long time to work those snags out.

Some of the solutions for those snags are already unpopular. Some people want the Trumpet Chops Master book to only be higher, not more difficult. But that’s not how this system works. The Trumpet Chops books are not RANGE books. They are skill building books.

There is only one more level in our system that is higher than the Trumpet Master level. That’s the Trumpet Virtuoso level. If I write these routines correctly, then only a fraction of the trumpet population will ever be good enough to work out of the Trumpet Chops Virtuoso book (which is yet to be written).

And we all know that there are literally hundreds of trumpet players who have good range and limited skills (relative to their range). This book is not for those trumpet players. This book is for those who want to push their musicianship to the next level.

So, YES, this is not just Trumpet Chops Pro part B. This is something more difficult and more challenging.

The same was true for the books at the lower level, but no one ever complained about those. That’s because those lower levels do not go beyond the basic expectations of trumpet players. Trumpet Chops Master begins to push the boundaries of what’s expected from trumpet players.

And here’s the thing. When you push those boundaries, everything that IS expected of a typical trumpet player becomes significantly easier.

I remember being on a gig not long after I published my original Daily Routines book. It was a gig where they hired three of us “high note guys”, and the other two guys were mocking my book. The one said, “Etude number seven by Eddie Lewis” then proceeded to play some extreme intervals while the other trumpet player laughed. Why did they do that? Because they SAW what was in the Daily Routines book. Ha ha ha… And what he was playing was not far off from what I had written.

He mocked my exercises simply because they went so far beyond what a typical trumpet player would ever have to play.

That was the Daily Routines book. This Trumpet Chops Master book takes that to a whole new level.

And the reason I’m saying so, here on this page, is because I don’t want people to purchase books from me that they don’t need or don’t want. If this “over the top” approach to advanced trumpet playing doesn’t appeal to you, then you should stick to the Trumpet Chops Pro book and maybe expand the range to meet your current needs. That’s not what this Trumpet Chops Master book is for.