Inside John Haynie's Studio: A Master Teacher's Lessons on Trumpet and Life
contributions by John Haynie
edited by Anne Hardin
University of North Texas Press, 2007
Cloth: 978-1-57441-226-0 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-387-8
Library of Congress Classification MT440.H39 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 788.92193
TOC
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
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