Trumpet Books by Eddie Lewis
Mr. Lewis has been writing trumpet books since the late 1980’s. They are listed here in the order that they were released, with the most recent books at the top of the page.
Mr. Lewis has written many different types of trumpet books. Some of these are trumpet scale books. Some are trumpet exercise books. There is a book of trumpet solos. We even have trumpet etude books and other types of trumpet music, like trumpet duets.
You can purchase most of these trumpet books at Sheet Music Plus, Tiger Music, Lulu.com or Amazon.com
Quick Click Menu – For Your Convenience
We have so many books now that asking you to dig through the entire list in reverse chronological order is terribly inconvenient. So here is an organized menu for you to use to make it easier to find the books you are most interested in. We are still listing them in reverse order, with the newest releases being placed at the top of the page. But now you can go directly to the books you are interested in by clicking on it’s link:
PLEASE NOTE:
When we decided to add this quick-click menu, we discovered that many of Eddie’s trumpet books are not listed here. Please be patient with us as we work on updating this page with a more complete list of available books.
Trumpet Routine Books (Warm Ups)
These are trumpet books that have the exercises you should do every day. Some people call these “warm-up” books, but we call them “daily routines”.
Trumpet Etudes and Solos
Here are some of Eddie’s etude and solo trumpet books.
Trumpet Scales
Eddie has written a number of trumpet scale books. These are all part of a scale system that he teaches (and uses himself) meant to maximize the benefits of your practice time.
- Major Scale Expansion Studies
- Band Scale Expansion Studies
- Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Stuides
- Trumpet Tyro Tonalization Studies
- Total Tonalization (Trumpet Player)
- Trumpet Apprentice Tonalization Studies
- Trumpet Pro Tonalization Studies
- Trumpet Pro Pentatonic Tonalization Studies
- Trumpet Folk Fill-in-the-Blank
- All-State Prep for Trumpet (2nd half)
- Twelve Tunes for Linear Diatonic Improvisation
Trumpet Duet Books
Eddie Lewis is constantly writing new duets for all skill levels. His first compositions were trumpet duets and he never stopped writing them.
Jazz Trumpet Books
Creativity Books
Unadorned Hymn Duets
133 Traditional Hymns
Arranged for trumpet duet in their simplest form
Worship our Heavenly Father with these Unadorned Hymn Duets, 133 traditional church hymns in their simplest form arranged for two trumpets. The key word here is “unadorned”. In contrast to Eddie Lewis’ popular Trumpet Hymn Duets book, the duets in this book have no introductions, no modulations, no embellishments, and no clever compositional treatments. The Unadorned Hymn Duets utilize only the melody and a working harmony part, nothing else!
By “working harmony part” we mean that the harmony parts work with most hymnal versions of the hymns. Unless the keys are different, you can use these duets with your congregational singing. This is one of the reasons people love these arrangements so much. The harmonies remain true to the original hymns.
We have a webpage dedicated entirely to the Unadorned Hymn Duets book that you can get to by clicking HERE.
Another nice feature of these Unadorned Hymn Duets is that they are ready to be used by trumpet players of most skill levels. A quick scan of all the hymns in the book reveals only eight written G’s above the staff. All the rest of the hymns remain inside the staff in the first part. The second part can be tricky sometimes, but the combined sound is beautiful.
Forty Trumpet Player Duets
Reward yourself with many hours of musical merrymaking while also honing your hard-earned trumpet skills.
Are you struggling to see results after so many hours of dedicated practice? You religiously practice your fundamentals. You ambitiously attack challenging etudes and solo works. But for some reason, you are not seeing the kinds of results you’ve been expecting.
Sometimes this can be because you don’t spend enough time making music with other people. It’s no coincidence that the students who most stubbornly refuse to play music with other people are also the ones who see the slowest progress. As a teacher with over 40 years of experience, Eddie Lewis recognized this phenomenon early in his teaching career. That’s why he always strongly recommends ensemble participation to each of his students.
Making music with other musicians is the “application stage” of learning a new musical skill. Ensemble participation forces us to execute new skills in real time, sourcing them from the subconscious part of our minds.
Unfortunately, many of us don’t have enough access to formal ensembles. That’s where trumpet duets come in. You receive the same benefits from playing trumpet duets as you do playing in a concert band or church orchestra.
40 Trumpet Player Duets takes those benefits up a notch. This book is designed to use the skills you’ve worked so hard to acquire.
Take a deep dive into 40 Trumpet Player Duets and make your trumpet beast roar.
Trumpet Christmas Duets
Heartfelt Christmas carols for any Christmas program, Trumpet Christmas Duets is an interesting collection of favorite classics. Some are festive. Some are pleasant. Most are joyous. There are 21 trumpet duets for intermediate to advanced trumpet players. Trumpet Christmas Duets is perfect for family gatherings, Christmas Eve services, school Christmas concerts and your annual Christmas party.
Christmas carols in this trumpet duet book include:
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Away in a Manger
- Deck the Halls
- The First Noel
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Good King Wenceslas
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- The Holly and the Ivy
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- O Holy Night!
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Quempas Carol
- Silent Night
- Still, Still, Still
- We Three Kings of Orient Are
- What Child Is This
There are play-along recordings published at Tiger Music and available for download and streaming where-ever you typically source your music.
Trumpet Chops Master
Trumpet Chops Master is the Trumpet Chops routine for our sixth level. We call it the Trumpet Master level because the exercises go beyond what is expected of the typical trumpet player. These are advanced exercises with a range up to the E above High C.
Trumpet Chops Master is based on the Physical Trumpet Pyramid structure. This is the same structure that all of my trumpet routine books are based on. Daily Routines, Chops Express and all of the Trumpet Chops books are based on this same structure.
Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Studies
Launch your trumpet life with Tonalization Studies, a system of trumpet scales that guarantees success.
Beginner trumpet students do not need to sound bad for long. If you want to sound like a pro, then you must practice what the pros practice.
Unfortunately, the exercises professional trumpet players practice are too difficult for beginners. This is a problem Eddie Lewis has been addressing with his students for decades. He has composed hundreds of trumpet exercises which bridge the gap between the beginners’ limitations and the benefits of the professional level exercises.
Now YOU have access to these beginner exercises. Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Studies has the same types of scale exercises that Eddie teaches his professional students. By limiting the number of keys and limiting the range, the scale patterns in this book are appropriate for even the earliest of beginners.
If you are a beginner trumpet player who wants the full benefit of pro level practice, then make it happen with the Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Studies.
Note:
Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Studies can also be used by students of higher skill levels. If you are familiar with Eddie Lewis’ One Range approach to chop building, then you know about the importance of range limiting. Trumpet Pioneer Tonalization Studies has all the exercises you need to practice your major Tonalization Studies with a reduced range. (See the One Range book for more details about range limiting.)
Trumpet Chops Apprentice
Trumpet Chops Apprentice is the fourth book in our Trumpet Chops series, but that can be a little confusing. Skill wise it comes before the first book we published in this series, the Trumpet Chops Pro book. We are publishing them in order of demand, not in order of skill level.
So far we have four books in this series. Trumpet Chops Tyro is a daily trumpet routine with a range up to fourth space E. Trumpet Chops Player has a range up to G above the stuff. Trumpet Chops Pro is a daily trumpet routine book with exercises up to high C.
The Trumpet Chops Apprentice book is a daily trumpet routine with a range up to B flat above the staff.
Like all of our physical rudiment trumpet books, Trumpet Chops Apprentice is based on the Physical Trumpet Pyramid, Eddie’s first book. It is also designed to be used with the One Range method.
Twenty Trumpet Pioneer Duets
When you see the word “Pioneer” in the title of one of our books or compositions, this refers to our easiest skill level. Twenty Trumpet Pioneer Duets is a duet book for beginner trumpet students.
[IMPORTANT NOTE! Thirteen of the duets in this book are also in the Celebrations duet book.]
The Trumpet Pioneer level in our system is limited to a range up to C in the staff. The keys are limited to one flat and/or one sharp. The rhythms only include whole-notes, half-notes and quarter-notes. The harmonies in these duets tend to be very simple.
The staves in Twenty Trumpet Pioneer Duets are set to 115%, making the music a little easier to read for beginners.
On page 24 we talk about the benefits of duets and offer tips for practicing them. Then at the end of the book there is a section about how to write your own duets, with a few pages of blank manuscript for you or your student to write some original music. Eddie Lewis included that section in the book because, when he first started composing, most of his compositions were trumpet duets.
Twenty Trumpet Pioneer Duets is the first in a series. The idea for the series is to break the Celebrations book up into seven skill levels (consistent with Eddie’s method) and add new duets to complete the set.
Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets
When you see the word “Tyro” in the title of one of our books or compositions, this refers to our second easiest skill level. Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets is a duet book for beginners who have been playing for about six months to a year.
[IMPORTANT NOTE! Twelve of the duets in this book are also in the Celebrations duet book.]
The Trumpet Tyro level in our system is limited to a range up to fourth space E. The keys are limited to three flats and/or three sharp. The rhythms now include sixteenth-notes. We also introduce six-eight time signatures at this level.
Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets is second in a series. The idea for the series is to break the Celebrations book up into seven skill levels (consistent with Eddie’s method) and add new duets to complete the set. In the case of the Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets, most of the duets that are also found in the Celebrations book are written in multiple keys and time signatures in this book. So you are essentially getting a lot more than twenty duets. There are a total of thirty-four duets if you count all the versions.
Click HERE to go to a webpage entirely dedicated to the Trumpet Hymn Duets book.
Trumpet Hymn Duets
Trumpet Hymn Duets is a book of 21 traditional Christian hymns arranged for trumpet duet. The goal in writing these hymn duet arrangements was to make them 100% appropriate for traditional church services. There are no modern treatments, no odd meters, and no jazz chords. These are trumpet duets that honor the harmonies and mood of the original hymns.
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Trumpet Chops Tyro
Trumpet Chops Tyro is a trumpet routine book for students with a range up to fourth line E. The skill level is late beginner. You can still benefit from the exercises in this book if your range is higher than E and in fact, if you are using Trumpet Chops Tyro as part of the One Range approach, then it is a necessary supplement to the other trumpet books.
Part of the reason why we practice these routines is because of the benefits they have on our embouchure (thus the name “Trumpet Chops“). If your range is at least up to fourth space E, then this book will challenge your trumpet playing in a way that will build strength. Endurance and range are signs of embouchure strength.
However, if your range is lower than fourth line E, then you are not ready for this book yet. In that case, you should look at the Trumpet Chops Pionner book.
Trumpet Chops Player
Trumpet Chops Player is a trumpet routine for students with a range up to G. The skill level is early high school or later. You can still benefit from the exercises in this book if your range is higher than G and in fact, if you are using Trumpet Chops Player as part of the One Range approach, then it is a necessary supplement to the other trumpet books.
Part of the reason why we practice these routines is because of the benefits they have on our embouchure (thus the name “Trumpet Chops“). If your range is at least up to G above the staff, then this book will challenge your trumpet playing in a way that will build strength. Endurance and range are signs of embouchure strength.
However, if your range is lower than G above the staff, then you are not ready for this book yet. In that case, you should look at the Trumpet Chops Tyro book or even the Trumpet Chops Pioneer book.
Trumpet Folk Fill in the Blank
I’ve written a lot of trumpet books now. More than most trumpet players I think. Of the books I’ve written, this Trumpet Folk Fill in the Blank book is the most unique. We are using folk songs to help the students play in the different key signature and to also train their ears.
The idea is that the students will learn the folk song in the easy key and play it ten times to get the sound of it in their heads. Then they will flip the page and play a transposed version of the same folk song. But there’s a catch. The transposed version has some notes missing. Where the missing notes were, there are not question marks. When the student reaches one of the question marks, he is supposed to play the note that sounds correct.
I’ve been using this book with my students and they love it. It’s like a game for them, but a game that sharpens some very important musical skills.
Free mini eBook Sample
Because this is such a unique book and people can’t quite figure out what to make of it, we’ve decided to publish a “free sample” version of the book with the first 4 song puzzles in it. You can access the free mini eBook by clicking on the following button:
Trumpet Tyro Tonalization Studies
The Trumpet Tyro Tonalization Studies is the second book in our major scale tonalization study series. This book is intended for students with a written range up to fourth space E.
One Range
A Trumpet Chops Strategy Guide
One Range is a trumpet chops theory book that is designed to help you get the most musical benefit from your physical practice. It draws from traditional trumpet wisdom and pedagogy without being harnessed to dogma. One Range is a plan that, if you follow it correctly, will help you increase your range, increase your endurance and improve your sound in ways that will not compromise the musical abilities you already poses on the instrument.
The book has no musical exercises in it. You can use the One Range approach with all the same exercises you are already practicing. Or, you could use it with my other routine books.
One Range is the encapsulation of thirty years of trumpet chops experience. I have had a successful career as a professional trumpet player and teacher. This book takes what I know about trumpet embouchure building and presents it in a format that is relatively easy to digest.
Trumpet Scales
Band Scale Expansion Studies
For Trumpet
Practicing scales is important and your band directors know it. That’s why they assign scales to their students. That’s also why they sometimes have scale tests and even use scales in auditions for band chairs. Some states even use the traditional band scales as audition material for their All-State bands.
If you are a serious trumpet student, you want to master your scales. Many times in history, more deserving students have been passed up for higher chairs just because someone beneath them practiced their scales better. Don’t be that guy!
The Band Scale Expansion Studies are designed for students who want to be able to play their band scales perfectly almost every time. It’s not for the overly cocky students who think they already have the scales mastered. It’s for those who know that mastery takes a time investment but pays off in dividends.
These scale exercises are powerful. But with great power comes great responsibility (as the famous saying goes). Practice the exercises correctly and you will transform your mind in a way that makes the scales, in every key, as easy as the key of C. Practice them wrong and you will make a bigger mess of it.
MONSTER-INFESTED SPACES
The MONSTER MUSIC JOURNAL is a wildly imaginative, monster-infested space. And that space was created for YOU so you can fill it with music compositions, transcriptions of your favorite songs, music theory exercises, and other monstrous things. There are monsters everywhere – literally! Just when you were convinced that monsters lived only in closets, the game changed. The monsters relocated – to the MONSTER MUSIC JOURNAL.
BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST MONSTERS
The MONSTER MUSIC JOURNAL is a musical playground for your pencil. The generously spaced staff lines make writing musical notes easy for beginners. But you don’t have to be a beginner to appreciate the spaciousness. If you like to live life BIG, then this book will fit right into your way of doing things. Let’s be honest: who doesn’t like to live life big? And if you are one of those people who has a lot to say, you are in luck. There is plenty of boxed-off writing space for non-musical notes, so you can include song lyrics, love letters, homework assignments, thoughts, poems, or questions to ask your teacher. Hey, there is even space for you to doodle your own family of monsters.
Trumpet Chops Pro
Many trumpet players struggle with chop problems. It’s demoralizing when you know you are a great trumpet player, but your limitations in endurance and range exclude you from crucial opportunities. The question is, how do you develop range and endurance without putting all your eggs in the high note basket? Most great trumpet players with limited chops deplore the idea of practicing high note methods! They want to be able to grow their range and endurance in a way that will not sacrifice their current strengths. Even better, what about a practice routine that will give them a better range but also improve their other strengths as well?
There are dozens of practice routines available to the modern trumpet player with new ones being added at a dizzying rate. Some of us already know what works for our specific needs while others seem to be swimming aimlessly through a sea of exercises and confusing information. Amid so many options, the Trumpet Chops series stands out as being not only physically but also musically beneficial.
Yes, Trumpet Chops Pro will help you with your range and endurance. But Trumpet Chops Pro is so much more than a strength, range or endurance builder. We believe that all physical work should be done for musical reasons. This routine is designed to help you become a better musician, not a screamer. All the exercises work toward a musical objective, not by pushing you beyond your limitations (as some think you should), but by enhancing and expanding your abilities from within their musical foundations. The concept is to grow your musicianship to meet your physical needs. When you build your strength this way, the results are always stylistically relevant and musical. Most trumpet practice routines cannot make this claim.
Trumpet Major Scale Expansion Studies
Eddie has written two expansion study books for the major scales. The Band Scale Expansion Studies book is different from the Trumpet Major Scale Expansion Studies book. This book is for all skill levels, but does not have the rhythms that band directors often require of their students.
Trumpet Major Scale Expansion Studies are the best expansion studies if you intend to follow up with Eddie Lewis’ Tonalization Studies.
Color the Trumpet Carols
Eddie Lewis and his wife, Pearl, have teamed up on a collaborative project. Together they designed a coloring book to color while listening to Eddie’s Unadorned Trumpet Carols album. The coloring book contains illustrations representing scenes from the Christmas story along with scripture references, quotes from carols, and a list of carols which are relevant to that particular scene.
At Tiger Music, we sell two different combos which include this coloring book and the CD. One is just the book and CD together, and the other has the book, CD, color pencils and Christmas cards for you to color and share with family or friends. The gift packs make a wonder Christmas present.
The Calling
Eddie Lewis has been composing unaccompanied trumpet solos since the early 90’s. The Calling brings most of them into one collection in book form. There are thirty-four solos in the collection that can be used as performance works or as etudes for your trumpet lessons. The styles of the pieces range from traditional classical to very modern. There are even a number of swing pieces to change it up a bit.
Some of the unaccompanied solos in The Calling have been recorded and you can listen to them on Youtube: We Shall See, Lion-Hearted, Mighty Heart, Creating Kindness, Sacred Trinity, and Divine Strength.
Trumpet Switchbacks
Mr. Lewis warns that this is not a lip slur method. Trumpet Switchbacks is a comprehensive compendium of his entire lip slur idea. He invented these lip slurs in the late 80’s but never published them in their entirety, until now. To use the book, simply choose the lip slurs that most appropriately fit your needs.
Trumpet Switchbacks includes 108 melodic lip slur exercises ranging in skill level from absolute beginner to virtuoso. When Mr. Lewis first invented his original lip slurs, his colleagues scoffed and said, “You can’t write new lip slurs! Every good lip slur has already been written.” Then he showed them the exercises that later became Trumpet Switchbacks and they said, “Oh!”.
Chops Express
In the late 80’s, Eddie Lewis designed a physical approach to practicing trumpet that serves as the basis for his warmup routines. Chops Express is the second book of those routines published so far. It contains routines for seven different levels of trumpet player, ranging from absolute beginner to virtuoso.
The main difference between this book and his more popular Daily Routines book is that the routines in Chops Express can be completed in under fifteen minutes. In terms of musical and physical benefit, the two books function the same way.
Chops Express also includes certain tweaks Eddie developed as a result of using the Daily Routines with his students over the years. While Daily Routines continues to work great for trumpet players all over the world, the exercises in Chops Express are just a little bit better.
All-State Prep for Trumpet
The concept for All-State Prep for Trumpet is to give ambitious high school students everything they need to work on from the time they finish solo and ensemble contest until the following year’s all-state music is announced. The idea is to master certain skills before you even see the music, that way you get ahead of the music.
If you want the All-State music to be easier and take less time to practice, and if you want to be more competitive, then All-State Prep has just about everything you need. The first half of the book includes short etudes that focus on very specific skills. The second half of the book contains 240 scale exercises, 20 in each key.
Trumpet Scales
Total Tonalization
Eddie Lewis wrote the Total Tonalization book to entice his students into practicing their scales. He presented it as a competition to all of his high school students. The first one to pass off all 240 exercises in their lessons was the winner.
It worked! His students learned their scales that year and Total Tonalization is one of the best ways to do that. Regular scales are nothing more than a skeleton of the key. Total Tonalization utilizes the basic building blocks in music in a way that greatly increases the students’ familiarity with the key.
Celebrations
101 Original Duets for Trumpet
Like many of Mr. Lewis’ trumpet books, Celebrations covers every skill level on the trumpet. The first duets in the book are easy enough for most beginners. The duets at the end of the book are difficult enough to give the most seasoned professionals a run for their money.
Duets are not only a very important part of your studies as a trumpet player, but they are also fun. Many teachers like to use duet books to practice sight reading with their students. Celebrations is the perfect sight reading tool because of its progressive setup.
Twelve Tunes
For Linear Diatonic Improvisation
Twelve Tunes is a jazz play-along for advanced musicians who just happen to be beginning improvisers. The way Eddie Lewis teaches jazz, the firs step is to start improvising immediately. Yes, he teaches all the same theory and skills that other teachers teach, but in Eddie’s lessons, those things are not prerequisites.
Twelve Tunes is a way for skilled musicians to jump into the proverbial improvisation pool and get started now. Each tune is composed in a way that allows the improviser to explore the key instead of the chords. It is a horizontal approach as opposed to a vertical one. Horizontal improvisation is easier. That’s why he uses it as the first step.
Trane for Trumpet
While Trane for Trumpet is not one of Eddie Lewis’ best selling trumpet books, for players wanting to learn how to improvise on John Coltrane’s tune, Giant Steps, there is no other source to match it. For improvisers it is an advanced book because Giant Steps is a very advanced tune to improvise on. However, Trane for Trumpet also works very well as a stand along technique book for those who don’t wish to learn how to improvise.
Trane for Trumpet is a book of over seventy exercises and jazz etudes setup in a progressive order, gradually moving from symmetric exercises to melodic etudes.
Twenty Studies for Trumpet
Twenty Studies is a book of Eddie Lewis’ first etudes. It was quite popular online when he first published it, but hasn’t seen the kinds of success it did twenty years ago.
Twenty Studies started off as a way for Lewis to practice certain aspects of some of the orchestral excerpts. As a student, he was having difficulty with certain aspects of the excerpts. As a way to deal with those aspects, he composed etudes that were based on the original excerpts, but where that one troublesome aspect was emphasized. For example, on the Petrushka excerpt he was struggling with breathing, so he wrote an etude that offers no place to breathe. This helped him become more comfortable with the breathing on the original excerpt.
Go With the Flow
Go With the Flow is a book of original flow study etudes. Flow studies are etudes or exercises that move primarily in step-wise motion. They are typically slurred.
A good way to describe flow studies is to say that they are “moving long tones”. In respects to air, embouchure and most other physical aspects of trumpet playing, we play them the same way we would play long tones. But while the air is moving like a long tone, our fingers are changing notes.
The etudes on Go With the Flow are designed to be used with Daily Routines and Chops Express. There are three etudes for each of the seven levels in those two trumpet books.
Daily Routines
Daily Routines is our best selling book! It has seven separate routines designed for seven different skill levels of trumpet player. The first level, titled “Group One” in the book, is easy enough for absolute beginners, with a range up to C in the staff. The seventh level, titled “Group Seven” in the book, is difficult enough to meet the needs of most professional trumpet players.
The routines in the Daily Routines book are each based on the structure of Eddie Lewis’ first book titled The Physical Trumpet Pyramid. That structure dictates which order the exercises are supposed to be done in each day. There are other benefits built into the method as well, but that is the most important.
ISBN: 1365732649
The Physical Trumpet Pyramid
The Physical Trumpet Pyramid is Eddie Lewis’ first book. The concept was designed in the mid 1980’s and the first version of the book was published just a few years later.
We often refer to The Physical Trumpet Pyramid as the teacher’s manual. It is not necessary to have and/or read The Physical Trumpet Pyramid before you can benefit from the Daily Routines or Chops Express books. Both of those books work whether you understand why or not. But if you want to understand the concepts and stories behind the success of the Daily Routines and Chops Express, then you will want to read The Physical Trumpet Pyramid.