Author: Airflow Music

Download the PDF of Claudio Roditi Solo on “A Night In Tunisia”

For this Exercise of the Week, Bryan Davis presents a transcribed jazz solo by the late, great Claudio Roditi. It is his solo on “A Night In Tunisia” from the 1989 CD “Live At The Royal Festival Hall” by Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra.

“Live At The Royal Festival Hall” links:
Apple Music
CD/DVD set on Amazon
DVD on Amazon
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Watch the complete concert on YouTube: https://youtube.com/9kyHKbOQ_1E/

Join in our #practicechallenge on Instagram and Facebook – video yourself playing this transcription, tag @airflowmusicnyc and use the hashtag #EOTW54. We’ll repost your renditions in our IG/FB story.

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If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

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Download the PDF of “Range Smoothing #2“

This “Range Smoothing” Routine is designed to help you build and solidify your range, while maintaining a connected approach to all registers of the instrument. This is an expanding series. However, while you should practice all the keys below the start note, you should only expand upwards within your comfortable range.

For more Range Smoothing, watch: Range Smoothing Routine

Join in our #practicechallenge on Instagram and Facebook – video yourself playing this exercise, tag @airflowmusicnyc and use the hashtag #EOTW53. We’ll repost your renditions in our IG/FB story.

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

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Download the PDF of “Alternative Technical Study #11“

For this Exercise of the Week, Bryan Davis presents another Alternative Technical Study. This one is a somewhat angular Dorian mode line, a further example that the inner parts from arrangements can yield some interesting and challenging things to play! 

We want to hear you playing this exercise! Video yourself playing a key or two that you find challenging and share on Facebook or Instagram, tagging @AirflowMusicNYC. We’ll repost our favourites!

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

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For this Exercise of the Week, we have another set of Twisted Flexibilities. This collection has all the odd meter flexibility goodness you’ve come to know and love, along the additional twist of a coordinated note bend in the patterns. It’s great for dialing in your airspeed, to make your lip slurs extra precise.

Download the PDF of “Twisted Flexibilities #5”

For more on note bending, please watch “N for Note Bending.”

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

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By request, this Exercise of the Week focuses on developing clear and consistent tonguing in the upper register. Bryan Davis is here, as ever, to show you how to reverse engineer, then practice, a correct articulation at the top of the staff and beyond.

Download the PDF of “Upper Register Tonguing #1”

For more on tonguing, please watch #TrumpetProTips E17.

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

Follow Airflow Music on Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Download the PDF of “Chord Tone Etude #2“

For this Exercise of the Week, Bryan Davis presents a new Chord Tone Etude based on the harmonic progression of a well-known bebop standard – “Confirmation.” The note choices are limited to the basic chord tones (root, 3rd, 5th, 7th only) indicated by the chord symbols, which are included. When learning new tunes, it can be extremely useful to arpeggiate through the changes to develop a sense of the voice leading, particularly if you are not proficient on the piano, or another chordal instrument. By incorporating direction changes, and different inversions of the arpeggios, you can arrive at something “almost melodic” like this!

Missed Chord Tone Etude #1? Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/YMjop3FsFZE

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

Follow Airflow Music on Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Download the PDF of “Quick Facility Warmup“

This “Quick Facility Warm Up” is the sort of thing I play everyday to get my chops moving and air moving after my basic warmup. It combines different fundamentals to let you quickly feel which areas need more attention in your daily maintenance, as well as letting you quickly get going again if you’re re-warming up after playing earlier in the day.

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

Follow Airflow Music on Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

Download the PDF of “Melodic Tonguing Routine #1“

This “Melodic Tonguing” Routine is part of a longer routine, working on tonguing along the subdivision chain. This excerpt contains the first 3 subdivisions of the beat – quarter notes, eighth notes and eighth note triplets. The full routine will be part of a forthcoming Airflow Music book. More details about that in due course…

The exercises in this routine should be single-tongued, with the sort of smooth and connected approach you would use to play a melody, either in a solo piece or an orchestral excerpt such as “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky. Play the higher keys softly and crescendo as you descend.

Check back every Monday for a new Exercise of the Week! #EOTW #GoPractice

If you have questions or comments about this video, we want to hear them! If you have a request for an area of technique you’d like an EOTW to address, please let us know – your suggestion could be the topic of a future video!

Exercise of the Week with Bryan Davis is presented by Airflow Music. For information on all our products, please visit: https://AirflowMusic.com/. Please Subscribe to our Youtube channel, to be notified of upcoming episodes.

If you’ve found this or any of our videos helpful, please share with your friends, and consider supporting us by making a purchase from the Airflow Music store.

Watch the entire 1st Season of Trumpet A-Z at: Trumpet A-Z Playlist.

Buy “Combination Drills: Developed Scales in Odd Meters” by Bryan Davis. PDF eBooks and Printed Books are available for each edition:

• Trumpet Edition, Volume 1
• Trombone Edition, Volume 1
• Trumpet Edition, Volume 2
• Trombone Edition, Volume 2

New from Airflow Music: “Finger Flexes” by Bryan Davis. Available now as a PDF ebook or printed book.

Trumpet Lessons with Bryan Davis are available in-person, if you’re in the New York City area, or via Skype if you live elsewhere. For more information, please visit: http://bryandav.is/teaching

Follow Airflow Music on Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.