25 Best Trumpet Method Books (free PDFs, too!)

This is a re-post from one of many over at Arban’s Method, a blog/website you should follow. Lots of great stuff over there!

I should note that all of the below are filled with music, exercises, etudes, and all kinds of other great, great stuff. I have almost all of these books memorized.

What these books don’t tell you are things like how to tongue, how to use your tongue for lip slurs, transposing, using mutes, double- and triple-tonguing, and lots-and-lots of other stuff about playing trumpet that you’d get from a great private teacher or, this book: Sound the Trumpet: How to Blow Your Own Horn. Click on it to learn more (be sure to check out the “Bonus Material“:

Okay, here’s the Arban’s Method post<snip>

Here’s a list of 25 of the Best Trumpet Books you need to become a great musician. Plus, there are free PDF downloads of Clarke studies, Charlier and Goldman – just look for the small links under the images. If there are other method books you think should be listed, let us know in the comments below. Enjoy and share!

• Complete Conservatory Method for TrumpetJ. B. Arban(Free PDF Download)
• Etudes for TrumpetVassily Brandt
• 100 Studi MelodiciReginaldo Caffarelli
• 36 Transcendental EtudesTheo Charlier(Free PDF Download)
• Technical StudiesHerbert L. Clarke(Free PDF Download)
• Advanced Lip FlexibilitiesCharles Colin
• In the Singing StylePhil Collins
• Lyrical StudiesGiuseppe Concone
• Develop Sight ReadingGaston Dufresne, Roger Louis Voisin
• Odd Meter EtudesEverett Gates
• 24 Etudes in All Major and Minor KeysAndrew Glowaty (Out of Print)
• Practical StudiesE.F. Goldman(Free PDF Download)
• How to Play High Notes, Low Notes, In BetweenJohn Haynie
• Etudes in All the Major and Minor KeysSigmund Hering
• 23 Orchestral EtudesSigmund Hering
• 27 Groups of ExercisesEarl Irons
• The Embouchure BuilderLowell Little
• 48 Etudes For TrumpetVerne Reynolds
• One Hundred Studies for TrumpetErnst Sachse
• Daily Drills and Technical StudiesMax Schlossberg
• Warm-ups and StudiesJames Stamp
• 6 Studies for TrumpetHenri Tomasi
• Vizzutti Trumpet MethodAllen Vizzutti
• Selected Studies for TrumpetH. Voxman
• Method for Piccolo TrumpetGerald Webster