{"id":10,"date":"2015-08-21T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:31:29","slug":"this-site-is-a-source-for-all-things-lead-trumpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good lead trumpet player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this site is to demonstrate techniques and examples of great lead trumpet playing. My hope is that this page will be a resource for those wanting to learn more about the art of lead trumpet performance.<\/p>\n<p>There are many facets to playing lead trumpet as an artist. You must have the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A good concept of time<\/li>\n<li>Good intonation<\/li>\n<li>A concept of style<\/li>\n<li>A good sound and projection<\/li>\n<li>Must be efficient and use the proper equipment that fits the job at hand<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Many beginning lead trumpet players have struggled with time in the upper register when they perceive a passage to be difficult. Due diligence must be paid to playing in time through all registers of the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN to all different styles of music with lead trumpet players. Examples&#8230; Big Band: Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, etc. Commercial: Movie Scores, Pop, Tower of Power, Prince, KC and the Sunshine Band, etc&#8230; There are even style differences between East cost and West cost musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this site is to demonstrate techniques and examples of great lead trumpet playing. My hope is that this page will be a resource for those wanting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadtrpt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}