Levels/Grades 1-5-Thes practice Aural Tests and Quick Studies support the Associated Board's syllabus for Jazz Trumpet Levels/Grades 1-5. Complementing the study of jazz repertoire they focus on musicianships skills central to the performance of Jazz and to working by ear.

A diploma candidate's guide to exam success: Trumpet DipABRSM.Foreword Quick Studies can be the bête noir of DipABRSM examination candidates. This need not be the case but confidence in this area will not come overnight. Nor should the Quick Study be seen as merely a longer version of the sight-reading tests encountered in the graded exam syllabus. One key difference is that a Quick Study needs to sound reasonably robust more like a 'learned' piece and less like a sketch or outline. Too many hesitations or passages bogged down by note-searching will cost you dearly while uncertain tonality coupled with woolly rhythms will undoubtedly nosedive your attempt.Misjudged tempi inobservance of critical expression markings or significant shortcomings in musical or stylistic awareness are also more than likely to jeopardise success. If it doesn't resemble a performance to you it won't to the examiners!Bearing in mind that a typical Quick Study will approximate to Grade 6 in the musical and technical demands it makes of you it should hardly be an undue cause for concern irrespective of whether you are taking a diploma in performing or teaching. After all by this point in your musical life you will have doubtless come across a sizeable number of pieces at this relatively modest level and being able to get to grips with such a piece in a short time frame is surely a reasonable expectation for a prospective diploma candidate living in the 'real world'. Diplomas are after all the first rungs on the professional ladder for a Classical musician emphatically not a grade 9 and as such they demand a significant gearing-up in mental attitude. You'll need to think more analytically not just instinctively. This new series of books targets the Quick Study head-on: all freshly composed pieces with the exam kept firmly in mind. It is not a solution in itself nor a means of short-circuiting the skills you will need to develop but a practice tool to steer you in the right direction. The

Playing With Scales is a new resource designed to help motivate and encourage young musicians to practice their scales.Playing With Scales presents imaginative backing tracks in avariety of styles to transform scales and arpeggios from dry rudiments into an exciting musical experience. The accompaniments can be played by the teacher in lessons plus all of the tracks are included for studentpractice at home using the supplied Download Card.This volume contains accompaniments for scales and arpeggios required at the first level of playing and is compatible with the syllabus requirements of the majorexamination boards.Watch an introduction to Playing With Scales:

Par HARRIS PAUL. Série brillant de Paul Harris de classeurs usages ' finger ' exercices, échelle de morceaux d'étude Arpège et improvisations simples pour vous aider à jouer les échelles et les arpèges avec confiance, ainsi que promouvoir une base solide pour l'apprentissage du répertoire et orchestres. Une ressource inestimable pour les étudiants, ' Améliorer votre échelles! ' Trompette Grade 4-5 couvre toutes les clés et les plages requis pour le syllabus du Conseil associé, vous aidant à ramasser ces précieuses marques supplémentaires aux examens./ Etude / Trompette