James Stamp Trumpet Method Pdf
Many of my colleagues, and indeed trumpeters the world over, swear by the practice routines of James Stamp. I hear lots of players warming up to these exercises and repeating them all through the day.
Personally, I don’t like to get tied to any particular list of exercises, the reasons have been stated many times in other posts on this blog. I bought the Editions BIM Stamp book when I was at school at fifteen years old. I tried it for a while but didn’t stick with it. I revisited it at college for a few months and several times over the years for extended periods. I also bought Roy Poper’s excellent book explaining the studies more fully.
Schlossberg, Max – Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet Stamp, James – Warm-Ups and Studies (Editions BIM). *Resist the urge to practice during the warm up--if you make a mistake, move on. If you make consistent mistakes, choose easier material or slow the tempo down. Allen Vizzutti Trumpet Method Book 1. Uploader avatar Harlan Almeida. 111336753 James Stamp Warm Ups. Uploader avatar.
Some trumpeter colleagues of mine went over to Loa Angeles to study with the widely respected pedagog Boyde Hood, himself a student of Stamp. Boyde’s routine is said to be written with Stamp at the end of James Stamp’s life and are considered by many to be Stamp’s definitive routine. I copied the routine for myself, including the extensive mouthpiece routines. I haven’t included the mouthpiece studies here, but would willingly post them if requested.
This time, I stuck with the routine for ages. I gave up on the mouthpiece routines first. I realised that for me, and I do a little mouthpiece playing at the onset of my playing day (and a little throughout the day’s work), I would rather play mouthpiece studies of a more musical nature. I do a little mouthpiece ‘solfeg’ out of the Kodaly book or I may play some hymns or anything really. This works better for me.
The full Stamp routine, pictured in full at the end of this post, simply took me too long and even after a year or two my chops were quite stiff, sore and my mouthpiece never felt good on my chops etc. Things really improved when I gave up the routine altogether. I also began to be ‘addicted’ to the routine and would struggle to play unless I had laboriously gone through all the pages!
For me, the full routine has too many pedal tones, covers too much range unnecessarily in each exercise, and the studies aren’t especially musical. So I stopped! From time to time I do a much shortened version just to get my chops going – I do this as a change so that I don’t do the same exercises every day and get stuck in a rut. I only go down to low F sharp and as high as top C. no pedal tones! Then I get straight to the music; maybe a solo piece, then I work on what I have to learn for work. I am fully aware of the many top players whop do the full routine every day. It just doesn’t work for me. Here is my short version followed by Boyde Hood’s full routine…
Stamp?Hood Full Routine
Stamp, James
Warm-Ups & Studies, w/MP3 Download
Modern classic study book used by collegiate level trumpeters worldwide. Includes sections on breathing, a variety of warm-ups, slurs, trills, bending, octaves, scales, arpeggios and more. Piano accompaniments available for the exercises as a download direct from the publisher. 34 pages. -cdpThe Stamp exercises, perhaps more than other brass methods, emphasize musical principles as much as physical concepts to accomplish the desired technical results. Perhaps the most famous Stamp aphorism was that if it sounded correct (i.e. «in-tune») thenone was doing it correctly. Or, conversely, if one did not play correctly it would not sound correct. Indeed, everything that has been said or written about Mr. Stamp and his teaching/playing concepts reinforces this basic idea.
To implement his concepts, James Stamp would play the Warm-Ups/ Exercises on the piano keyboard while the students would simultaneously play them on the mouthpiece or the instrument. This method imposed a certain discipline and minimized the need for an inordinate amount of verbal instructions and analyses since any problems would become known almost immediately and consequently could be addressed early in the training process. -the publisher
James Stamp Trumpet Method
Accompaniments, formerly included on CD, are now available as a free MP3 download for Bb or C trumpet.
James Stamp Trumpet Method Pdf
(Breathing)
(Preliminary Warm-Ups)
(Basic Warm-Up)
(Slur Exercises)
(Scale Velocity)
(Three for Stamp)
(Bb Trumpet Accompaniments)
(C Trumpet Accompaniments)