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Hi Sofia! Here is some Sheet Music you may need to print for your lessons...

CURRENT SHEET MUSIC
xxx: Like Someone In Love (with lyrics and improv choices)


JAZZ SOLO TRANSCRIPTIONS
Woody Shaw: "There Will Never Be Another You" (1986)


Chet Baker: "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" (1987)
Freddie Hubbard: "Up Jumped Spring" (Backlash, 1966) (audio: solo only, qn=154 to 120)
Kenny Dorham: "I Love You" (1953)
Kenny Dorham: Blues Medley (1965) (full album)
Tom Harrell: "Namely You" (1979) (audio)


Miles Davis: "Airegin" (1954, on "Bags Groove") (audio) ***


Clifford Brown: "Joy Spring" (1954)
Tom Harrell: "Unit Seven" (1979)


Clifford Brown: "Woody 'n You" (7 pages! - live at the "Bee Hive", Chicago, IL, November 7, 1955) ***


Chet Baker: "Lady Bird" (1959)


--------: Swing Etude #2 (larger notes, all on 1 page)


JAZZ LEAD SHEETS
12-Bar Blues: List of Blues Heads (sorted by concert key, .pdf file) ***


----------: Sample Jazz Standard List (Bb parts)


JAZZ ETUDES AND EXERCISES
ii-V-I Licks (Chwalik): ii-V-I Lick #01 (without endings, with endings; .pdf file)
ii-V-I Licks: 50 Bebop Licks.pdf (all as ii-V-I in C Major, .pdf file)


jazzetudes.net St. Thomas (example) (backing track) (lead sheet) (original audio)
jazzetudes.net Alone Together (backing track) (lead sheet)
jazzetudes.net I Remember You (backing track) (lead sheet)
jazzetudes.net Sweet Clifford (backing track) (lead sheet)


THEORY RELATED
Learning Intervals (.pdf file)
4 Basic Chord Types (.pdf file)


TECHNICAL EXERCISES
Scales!: Major / minor scales (8ths, 16ths, to high D) (.pdf file)
Bill Adam/Pat Harbison: The Routine
Pat Harbison: From Pat Harbison - Random Thoughts (1987), The Developing Musician (.pdf file)


--------: Expanding Long Tones (starting on G)
--------: Expanding Chromatic scales (starting on F#)
--------: Low Slurs
--------: Tongueing - 5-note scales


Chromatics: Chromatics in Sections (.pdf file)
Chromatics: Chromatics in Sections (with valve combinations) (.pdf file)
Chromatics: Expanding Chromatic scales (starting on F#) ***
Chromatics in Octaves (starting on the tritone position)


Scales!: Scales - Majors only (keys low to high, 1 octave, highest note=F, with valve combinations, no key sig, 2 pages) (.pdf file) ***
Scales!: Scales - Majors only (keys low to high, 1 octave, highest note=dbl F, with valve combinations, no key sig, 4 pages) (.pdf file) ***
Scales!: Scales - Majors only (keys low to high, 2 octaves, highest note=dbl F, with valve combinations, no key sig, 2 pages) (.pdf file) ***


Scales!: Major Scales and Arpeggios (all 8ths, to top of staff F) (.pdf file) ***
Scales!: Major / minor scales (8ths, 16ths, to high G) (.pdf file)
Scales!: Major / minor scales (8ths, 16ths, to high D) (.pdf file)
Chwalik: Major Scale Patterns


Little: Little Embouchure Builder (cover and music) (.pdf file) ***


Sight-Reading: Sight-Reading Samples (with audio!)


Veldkamp: Exercise 2020-0404
Clint McLauglin:
Posted online April 11, 2015
Article: How do you practice the Arban, Clarke & Schlossberg (.pdf file)
Vizzutti: Method Book 1


HOLIDAY RELATED
Christmas
JazzEtudes.net Winter Wonderland (.pdf file) (audio)
TTN Swingle Bells - TTN arrangement (.pdf file) (backing track (straight-ahead)) (backing track (funky vamp))
Bebop Boot Camp Swingle Bells (.pdf file) (audio)


WARMING DOWN
--------: Playing low, soft chromatic notes (starting on low C, going down; resting in between)


LISTENING
C. Chwalik: Jazz Listening Worksheet (blank) (.pdf file)


TECHNICAL
C. Chwalik: Form - Trumpet Intonation (.pdf file)


DUETS (non-jazz) (audio)
Easy Classic Duets: Spring, Voi Che Sapete, Toreador's Song, Lullaby, Gavotte, Allegro (Mozart), Dance of the Hours, Pizzicato Polka, Musette, Grand Waltz, Plaisir d'Amour, La Bamba, Allegro (Haydn), Radetzky March, March (Nutcracker Suite), La Cucuracha, Mazurka, Carillon, Waltz, Allegretto, Galop and Can-Can, Brindisi, Finale, The Queen of the Night Aria, La Paloma, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Russian Dance (Nutcracker)


Intermediate Classic Duets: Loch Lomond, Air de Toreador, Rigadoon, Waltz, Morning Mood, Jupiter, Symphony No. 5, Pomp and Circumstance, Minuet in D, Needles and Pins, Intermezzo, The Duck, Prelude in G, Les Coucous Benevoles, Old German Lullaby, Study in C, March, Fur Elise, Humoresque, Minuet, Prelude, Minuet in G,


DUETS (jazz)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#1)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#2)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#3)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#4)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#5)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#6)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#7)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#8)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#9)       (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets: Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#10)     (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)


TTN Jazz Duets (MG): Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#01)     (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets (MG): Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#02)     (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)
TTN Jazz Duets (MG): Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#03)     (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)


TTN Jazz Duets (TJ): Jazz Trumpet Duets! (#01)     (Audio: part 1, part 2, both parts)


Magnarelli Opener (both parts, hn=76)
Magnarelli Mezzrow (both parts, hn=92)
Bower Duet 1 (both parts, qn=160)
Bower Duet 2 (both parts, qn=160)
Bower Duet 3 (both parts, qn=160)


OTHER
Brandt Orchestra Etude #1
Brandt Orchestra Etude #2-3
Arnold Fantasy for Solo Trumpet (.pdf file)
Norris (ed) Top 50 Orchestral Audition Excerpts (.pdf file)


Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, III. Allegro assai (F Piccolo Trpt) (.pdf file)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, III. Allegro assai (Bb trpt) (.pdf file)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (full score!) (.pdf file)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (1 page from the score) (.jpg file)


Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - I - Allegre (Bb trumpet part, 5 pages, .pdf file; original calls for C trumpet)
Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - II - Mystique (Bb trumpet part, 3 pages, .pdf file; original calls for Eb trumpet)
Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - III - Rag-Polka (Bb cornet part, 2 pages, .pdf file)
Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - IV - Marche (Bb piccolo part, 6 pages, .pdf file)
Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - V - Vesperale (Bb flugelhorn part, 2 pages, .pdf file)
Bolling Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano - VI - Spirituelle (Bb piccolo part, 4 pages, .pdf file)









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