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New Orleans Trumpet
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The background and current practice of trad jazz by a NOLA trumpeter
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Music Theory & AppreciationTable of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- 1. Overview
- 2. Be a participant
- 3. To get the most of this book
- 4. The not-teachable part
- 5. Guns, horns, and discipline
- 6. My journey to New Orleans
- 7. In New Orleans, faking it doesn t cut it
- 8. Studying Satch
- 9. Suggested technology and resources
- 10. New Orleans and a Rusty Old Horn
- 11. How does a trumpet work?
- 12. Playing high notes
- 13. Trumpet versus cornet
- 14. How does traditional jazz work?
- 15. Why trumpet players have trouble conforming to the chords
- 16. The keys to the kingdom
- 17. The numbering system(s)
- 18. Defining the box and jazz freedom
- 19. Major triads--the magic of 3
- 20. Improving the odds
- 21. The major triads
- 22. Point notes and moving notes
- 23. More magic of threes, sensory dissonance,
- 24. Sensory dissonance
- 25. Minor and other types of triads
- 26. Diminished triads
- 27. Augmented triads
- 28. Major seven chords and everything else
- 29. Finding the patterns
- 30. Understanding the hot five and seven notes
- 31. Learning tunes
- 32. Playing the melody
- 33. Tricks
- 34. Soloing
- 35. Backing up other soloists and backing up vocalists
- 36. Transposing
- 37. The lava cake test
- 38. Basics of traditional jazz
- 39. Corsetry and music
- 40. Leader duties and communication
- 41. Handling sit-ins
- 42. The job
- 43. Just because you can
- 44. Because you can, you should
- 45. Bibliography
- 46. Concert Charts