Long Tone Duets for Trumpets by Oswaldo Zapata is appropriate for high school through professional trumpet players.

Long Tone Duets for Trumpets provides an opportunity to play long tones together, learning to blend tone quality, balance dynamics, and match intonation. A variety of patterns has been provided, including duets in every major and minor key, duets featuring scales and harmonies, and duets devoted to technique and repertoire. To ensure a variety of long tone playing in your practicing, play a duet from each category whenever possible. These duets provide the perfect opportunity to scrutinize and improve tone, intonation, articulation, and balance because there is no demanding rhythmic activity or complicated fingerings to take the focus away from these aspects.

“Oswaldo Zapata's new creation, 'Long Tone Duets for Trumpets', is both simple and brilliant! Incorporating 'Long Tone Duets' into a regular practice routine will, without a doubt, lead to better intonation and pitch matching. Congratulations on creating 'Long Tone Duets', an extremely accessible and useful book that will quickly improve anyone's trumpet playing.” - Allen Vizzutti, Trumpet Virtuoso

"Very rarely can one find a book that is applicable for players ranging from the level of a beginner to professional, but this is one such book." - Anthony Plog, Composer, Podcaster, Trumpet Educator

69 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on the music stand

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