Jeffrey Reynolds - Trumpet For Dummies

Trumpet For Dummies

by Jeffrey Reynolds

Trumpet For Dummies

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Reynolds, Jeff, 1946

Trumpet for dummies / Jeffrey Reynolds.

(--For dummies)

To be accompanied by compact disc of audio samples. Includes index.

Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-470-67937-1

1. Trumpet--Methods--Self-instruction. 2. Music theory--Elementary works. I. Title. II. Series: --For dummies

MT448.R463 2011 788.9'2193 C2010-907507-2

ISBNs 978-0-470-96348-7 (ePDF), 978-0-470-96350-0 (eMobi), 978-0-470-96349-4 (ePub)

Printed in United States of America

1 2 3 4 5 RRD 13 12 11 10 09

About the Author

Jeff Reynolds has been a trumpeter for almost 50 years, since the first day of band class, when the trumpet seemed to be a magical gift, possessed of supernatural powers. Since then, he has performed all manner of engagements, from funerals to weddings, from jazz gigs and dances to orchestra concerts. He has toured North America with ballet companies, played fanfares for Shakespeare plays, played onstage in tights for a pantomime and in tails for the great symphonies of Beethoven and Mahler, and entertained the folks at country-and-western bars. He once popped out of a (fake) cake to play Happy Birthday for the president of a corporation. In spite of, or because of, all these various engagements, he retains a great pleasure in playing the trumpet and has an insight into the whole spectrum of music making available to the modern trumpeter.

As long as he has performed, Jeff has taught, from the Grade 8 beginners he started with (when Jeff was a whole grade more advanced) to doctoral students at the University of Toronto, where he has taught for 30 years. Explaining, analyzing, encouraging, and cajoling hundreds of students over the years has given him another kind of insight: the understanding of how to communicate trumpet playing to others. Teaching has always been as important to Jeff as playing, always as challenging and rewarding. Many of his former students are professional players and teachers.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all my students who have taught me so much of what I know, and how to teach it, and to all my teachers, for all the rest. In particular, the late Vincent Cichowicz was a model of humanity, musicality, and communication whose influence is always with me.

Authors Acknowledgments

Special thanks to: Katharine Rapoport, for recommending me as a potential author for Trumpet For Dummies; Robert Hickey, who helped me shape the book and gave me the chance to write it; Elizabeth Kuball, my editor, whose firm and patient shepherding of me toward the completion of the project were invaluable; Gillian MacKay, who in addition to acting as the books technical editor, gave generous assistance in the form of suggestions, advice, and much appreciated encouragement; Geoffrey Tiller, Jamie Reynolds, Ryan Cameron, Gillian MacKay, and Robert Hickey, who were great partners in the recording session; Gary Honess, our brilliant sound engineer; Robert Hickey, Lisa Hartl, and Nathan Saliwonchyk, who facilitated a smooth photo shoot; and my family, for their support and encouragement throughout the project.

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