Taught by renowned trumpet player
Caleb Hudson
While a piccolo trumpet won't add an octave to your range, it will unlock new colors, both warm and brilliant, for your musical expression. In this extensive guide to the piccolo trumpet, virtuoso Caleb Hudson discusses what you need to know to get started, how to secure your fundamentals, discusses his approach to baroque trumpet literature, and shares some common pitfalls he sees with his own students!
Introduction
Caleb tells us what we should know before approaching the piccolo trumpet!
Fundamental Playing Techniques
Caleb outlines the technical and fundamental skills that we can to cultivate in our trumpet playing to make the piccolo trumpet easier! He touches on breathing, gear and equipment, flexibility, articulation, range, and much more.
Music for Baroque Trumpet
Much of the piccolo trumpet literature is from the baroque period – and with that, comes specific stylistic considerations. Caleb takes a tour through some common piccolo trumpet rep, including arrangements he recorded on his debut solo CD, to discuss ornamentation, character, and much more.
Common Pitfalls
From intimidation to scooped articulations, Caleb has witnessed a wide variety of roadblocks when it comes to piccolo trumpet playing. In this lesson, he breaks many of them down, also providing a brilliant framework for moving between discovery, training, and performance mindsets in our practice.
Click here to download the course workbook PDF and see the full syllabus →Soloist, arranger, composer, and professor at the Butler School of Music in Austin, Caleb Hudson is widely known for his decade with the Canadian Brass, but his subsequent solo career is turning heads.
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