Reddit reviews Arban's Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet (Cornet) or Eb Alto, Bb Tenor, Baritone, Euphonium and Bb Bass in Treble Clef
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Great product!
Do you have a copy of the Arban book? It's about as comprehensive as you can get and also has a ton of melodic, lyrical stuff in its last section (this ranges from simple melodies to extremely difficult sets of themes and variations). Pretty much all of the melodic etudes are meant to be played solo.
Arban is the standard. Starts very basic but the hardest stuff would challenge a professional player.
Newbie here, but a book I've been studying recommends against embouchure changes after playing for a long time. Can anyone with more experience comment on this?
You should be able to pick up a student model trumpet for a few hundred dollars. Take some lessons. Practice every day. 10 minutes every day is better than 5 hours on weekends. If you don't enjoy it after six months, sell the trumpet, no harm done.
If you learn notation, get some method books. The classic is Arban's, $30. There are simple melodies near the back.
If you don't want to learn notation, find recordings of things you like, and learn to play along with them.
This is the standard. As /u/Limestone87 said, its what everyone has. Stick with this one.
I like Claude Gordon's approach, so I recommend his Systematic Approach to Daily Practice. It will be too much for you at the outset, but that's ok— most exercises will have a "play as much as you can" deal; move on after you've missed three times in a row.
Good books for specifically lip flexibility are Collin and Irons.
And of course, you can't go wrong in general with Schlossberg or Arban's.
Either Clarke or Arban's will be good for technical facility/etudes, once you're there, but really the only way to get there is to play them so start now. Play them way downtempo if need be, but you're not going to wake up one day out of the blue and be good enough to start playing out of the Clarke book full speed.
That being said, I also agree with the stuff /u/awashsound said; I just felt like giving you options if you want to go deeper, or if you—you know—prefer dead trees to computer screens.
Constraining you to time limits for things would be trying to sell you someone else's product. Try a sensible mixture of...
Honestly, it's a lot of work for someone to prescribe you a practice routine, especially over the internet without hearing you. This is why people take lessons. If you're looking for an easy way to go about it with just buying 2 books (since I mentioned ones most people aren't going to buy above), try:
Buy the Arbans Complete Conservatory for Trumpet. It's a great instruction book and also makes an excellent paper weight. Seriously, this is the Bible for trumpet. http://www.amazon.com TV /Complete-Conservatory-Trumpet-Baritone-Euphonium/dp/0825803853
Number one thing to do is to practice. Figure out a practice routine that works for you, even if it means simply getting the horn on your face and noodling around for a bit every day. Once you get to the point where practicing becomes second nature, start adding exercises (long tones, lip slurs, etc.) The most important thing to do is make sure you play every day.
Also, acquire an Arban's book. They don't call it the trumpet player's bible for nothing. While you can most certainly pull random exercises out of the book, I find this helpful. It organizes the exercises into 69 lessons, helpful if you're overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material in the Arban's book.
I'd suggest picking up Arban's method, as that contains a pretty good range of abilities. You can probably find it online. As well, the Real Book contains melodies and chord changes for many different jazz standards. You're going to want the Bb edition.
Beside the horn, obviously (and the Student Yamaha with a 7C is an excellent choice as others have mentioned):
1.) Good Trumpet teacher.
2.) This book, for it will become your bible