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Highlights

What I can teach your student:

 Beginning trumpet

o Develop and maintain good embouchure and air support

o Improve familiarity and association between notes, fingering, and pitch

o Expand rhythmic ability and sight reading

o Improve tone, intonation and note stability

 

§ Advancing trumpet and intro to Jazz 

o Listen and learn about different styles and rhythmic techniques

o Articulation and tone control exercises to develop a more power and range

o Begin muscle and aural memory with scales and arpeggios 

o Improve quality of overall sound with breathing and facial muscle exercises

o Introduction to jazz style, swing, and feel

 

§ Advanced trumpet technique and style

o Improve sight reading for classical and/or jazz

o Learn tricks and secrets of the trumpet to help you achieve certain effects

o Further develop good habits to grow and maintain tone quality, intonation, pitch stability, and range

o Advance in tonging, articulation, and stylistic/rhythmic/dynamic nuances 

o Rehearse individual music repertoire as needed

 
 

§ Commercial and lead trumpet lessons (For higher level players in high school and beyond)

o Upper range exercises, and improving punch/power

o Importances of articulation style, and attention to detail

o Tone control, pitch stability, and advanced sound alteration/effect techniques 



§ Jazz improvisation trumpet lessons

o Listening exercises and emulation 

o Different styles of jazz and the importance of feel/rhythm

o Learn patterns, color tones, and scales to associate chords and progressions

o Intro to transcribing famous solos



§ Jazz theory and chordal progressions (beginning-advance levels)

o Learn how to read chords and what they mean

o Familiarize and recognize chord progressions and patterns

o Improve knowledge of certain patterns and changes to help predictive anticipation (for enhancing skill in sight reading difficult charts)



§ Intro to composition, arranging & Scoring

o Learning how to begin putting your musical ideas and thoughts onto paper

o Choosing the write instruments and style 

o How to take an existing melody and turn it into something else

o How to score for different instruments and ensembles 

o (Basics of using Finale)

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Matt Sumner

Muskegon, Michigan, United States

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