CONTENTS
Foreword xi
by Keith Johnson
Preface xii
Embouchure
The Big Four: Embouchure 3
Do They Pivot in Peoria? 9
Endurance 13
The Low-Down on Pedal Tones 17
Smashing the Lips 21
High Notes 27
Breathing
The Big Four: Breath 31
Open Up-For Tone's Sake! 35
The Head Position and the Airway 39
How Long is a Long Tone? 41
Tonguing
The Big Four: Tonguing 43
Breath Attacks 47
Triple Tonguing is as Simple as One, Tu, Three 51
Videofluorographic Research with Dr. Alexander M. Finlay 55
Fingering
The Big Four: Fingers 59
The Arch of the Fingers 63
Musicianship
On Stage-The Reason for Being 65
Who Says Playing from Memory is Important? 73
I Could Hear Every Word You Played 77
Crescendo and Accelerando 81
How Loud is Loud? 83
Vibrato 85
The Three C's-Continuity, Contrast, Climax 89
Intonation
Tune As You Play 93
Get Those Third Slides Out 97
Equipment
Haynie's Horns 101
Mouthpieces-The Holy Grail of Trumpeters 105
The Inside Story of Leadpipes 109
A Comparison of Cornets and Trumpets and the
People Who Play Them: A Two-Part Story 111
The Metronome-My Friend 117
Habits
Warming Up and Down 121
Bad Habits-According to Whom? 125
Practice Makes Perfect-But What Is Perfect? 129
Trumpet Jaywalking 133
The "Go for It" Attitude 135
Rhythmic Entrances and Jump Rope 139
Man, I Know What I Need to Practice 143
Mental Discipline
John Dewey's Spirit of Change and Other Guiding Principles 145
Motivation 153
Stress 157
Sight Reading and Transposition 161
Miscellaneous
Developing a Trumpet Library 165
Writings, Recordings, Composers 173
The Audition for a Scholarship 183
Why Teach? 187
Girls and Trumpets 191
The Non-Jazzer, Found Out 195
Try Fly Fishing-It is Easy 197
Golf-A Game for Trumpet Players 201
Autobiography
A Boy and His Horn 205
My Life with Robert Maddox 209
All-State Bands and Contests 213
Colonel Earl D. Irons-My Childhood Hero 219
War and Duty 223
Haskell Sexton-My Teacher 229
Leroy Kirsch-My Illinois Standmate 235
A Six-Week Audition 239
Listening and Learning in the 1950s 245
Marilyn, Melinda, Mark 249
Mark Hindsley-My Father-in-Law 255
The Grand Performance 261
Afterword 265
by Anne Hardin
Contributors 269
Index of Names 285