Chase Sanborn’s books are incredible. The content is fantastic, and I LOVE the conversational tone of the text.
Rich Hartsuiker
Brass Tactics gives students a complete approach to the basics and beyond, while providing a comprehensive guide to the other important and pertinent literature that they will be utilizing all of their musical life. It is an invaluable resource!
Marvin Stamm (New York)
Brass Tactics is the first really sensible and fun book for today’s trumpeters. The information is realistic, encouraging, and comprehensible. I highly recommend that every sincere player get this book right away!
Bobby Shew (Los Angeles)
Brass Tactics is an amazingly effective and comprehensive method book. Chase Sanborn is a GREAT trumpet player who knows EXACTLY what he’s talking about!
Jens Lindemann (UCLA)
Chase Sanborn has a uniquely logical approach to playing the trumpet, with the musical part of this challenging endeavor always in mind. Brass Tactics is a must for every trumpet player’s library.
Ron Romm (Canadian Brass)
Brass Tactics provides a practical and all-encompassing guide to playing while plugging you into the real world as a brass player. Chase is the Marcella Hazan of brass playing!
Guido Basso (Boss Brass)
Brass Tactics shows you how to handle yourself in any professional or amateur situation. No trumpet player, at any stage, should be without this book.
Dennis Najoom (Milwaukee Symphony)
I am incredibly impressed by the clarity of thought, the attention to detail, and the very correct ideas that are presented in Brass Tactics. Chase Sanborn’s book is excellent for the beginner, but is also completely relevant to any professional. Absolutely fantastic!
Andrew McCandless (Toronto Symphony)
FINALLY, someone has written a brass book with the correct priorities! Brass Tactics is incredibly helpful to all brass players! Thank you for writing this book!
Paul Navarro (Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra)
Brass Tactics offers a comprehensive wealth of information, written by a widely-experienced player who has the ability to pass on his experiences in a positive and encouraging way. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about the trumpet.
Eddie Severn (Birmingham, UK)
Brass Tactics is the coolest trumpet/brass technique book I have ever seen. There’s some pretty funny stuff in there too! Brass Tactics rocks!
Adolfo Acosta (Tower of Power)
I have never seen so much valuable information, not only about playing the instrument, but about every other aspect of being a musician covered so completely.
Phyllis Stork (Stork Custom Mouthpieces)
Brass Tactics is a first class method that is clear and concise. I agree with what Chase Sanborn says, and how he sa
James Thompson (Eastman School of Music)
I enjoyed Brass Tactics a lot and shared it with my trumpet studio class. Brass Tactics is a very important text for all trumpet players!
David Baldwin (University of Minnesota)
Brass Tactics should be in the hands of every trumpet player!
Jack Long (Long & McQuade Music)
Brass Tactics provides welcome insight into the world of the modern professional musician. For the advancing player who is serious about his art, or anyone considering a career as a professional trumpet player, this book is a must-read.
Chase Sanborn’s books provide advice from the real world of the professional player, serve as great references to other sources of material, and feature a humorous style that makes them a joy to read.
Ole Utnes (Tonsberg, Norway)
Brass Tactics is written from the perspective of a successful working trumpet player, and covers topics that I have never seen in a method book.
Larry Larson (London, ON)
Brass Tactics is as thorough and clear as any book I have ever seen, and I’ve seen most of them!
Scott Apelgren (The Horn Section-Melbourne, FL)
Brass Tactics is precisely the kind of book I’ve been looking for-it’s helped organize my practice routine and has cleared a lot of things up. The sharp writing is an added bonus!
Kyle Sarofeen (Cambridge, MA)
Just the first 25 pages are worth the price of the book!
Dennis Hill (Laguna Hills, CA)
I have spent nearly $80,000 in tuition to learn a fraction of what I’ve learned reading Brass Tactics in only a few days!
Jason Harrelson (Northfield, MN)
Brass Tactics is the most complete work on trumpet playing that I have ever seen!
Rune Aleksandersen (Norway)
Chase Sanborn has done an incredibly thorough job of compiling and organizing a vast amount of knowledge, hints, tips, and techniques that few trumpet players have the opportunity to learn.
Steve Eckart (Chico, CA)
Each time I read Brass Tactics I find something I hadn’t noticed before. Those of us in the trenches have needed this book for some time!
Merle McCoy (Portage, MI)
Chase Sanborn has distilled the best of the best. He never says, ‘that’s the wrong way’. He offers you his opinion of the method or technique in question and gives the pros and cons he has gathered in his experience as a player and teacher.
Bob List (Baltimore, MD)
Brass Tactics is absolutely the best book I have in my collection. I read it completely about once a month just to keep on track.
Gabe Hill (Tahlequah, OK)
Brass Tactics is an incredible collection of comments and ideas. I’ve never seen a book that has it all like this one does.
Chuck Vavra (Arco Technology)
I’ve spent over $4000 in private lessons and only learned half as much as I did in the two days I borrowed Brass Tactics from one of my colleagues.
Richard W. Muellerleile
Brass Tactics conveys the information in a friendly, funny manner, and is also one of the nicest looking music book I have ever seen. I highly recommend this book!
Donovan Bankhead
Brass Tactics conveys the concentrated essence of years of instruction with a great teacher. It offers authoritative instruction, acknowledges alternative schools of thought, points out areas of unresolved controversy, and manages to balance it all with sage advice.
John McBurney
Brass Tactics is like a road map for the world of trumpet playing.
Rick Head (Memphis, TN)
Brass Tactics covers all the basics and more in great detail, yet maintains a very conversational tone.
Gary Maki (Ypsilanti, MI)
On the Brass Tactics CD, Chase Sanborn shows that he can play everything he writes about, at times sounding like he has four lungs! What a lovely player!
Mike Gibbs (New Zealand)
Brass Tactics has given me a new drive to play. It just shows that you are never too old to learn or be inspired!
Albert Benton (Broken Arrow, OK)
The Brass Tactics CD is very helpful; it’s one thing to read about a concept, but quite another to actually hear what it should sound like. It gives the reader a target to shoot for.
Marty Markiewicz (Rochester Hills, MI)
The Revised Edition of Brass Tactics is very concise, and humorous. The accompanying CD alone is worth every penny! I wish this book had been available twenty years ago!
Lawrence Killian (West Yorkshire, England)
Brass Tactics is brilliant! The writing is refreshing and no avenue remains unexplored. It all makes perfect sense!
Tony Farrell (Nottingham, England)
Brass Tactics is clearly written, reaches all levels, is humorous, and gives the player a bona fide real world view of the requirements for aspiring and professional trumpeters. BRAVO!
Daniel Parker (DT Parker Winds-North Carolina)
One thing I have learned: do not take Brass Tactics to bed! Once you start, there is no putting it down!
Jeff Gibbons (Robe, South Australia)
Brass Tactics covers every detail, there is nothing one could add.
Rainer Schmidt (Toronto, ON)
Brass Tactics is a killer! Chase Sanborn sure has it all together-he’s a wonderful musician!
Leon Merian (Bradenton, FL)
I laid up my horn when I started medical school. Now, 24 years later, Brass Tactics has made returning to playing enjoyable and easier than I had expected, and taught me many things that I wish I had learned the first time around.
Tony Miller (Auburn, Maine)
Never before has any trumpet manual hit me with so much pure truth. At last I understand!
Chase Sanborn’s books are incredible. The content is fantastic, and I LOVE the conversational tone of the text.
Brass Tactics gives students a complete approach to the basics and beyond, while providing a comprehensive guide to the other important and pertinent literature that they will be utilizing all of their musical life. It is an invaluable resource!
Brass Tactics is the first really sensible and fun book for today’s trumpeters. The information is realistic, encouraging, and comprehensible. I highly recommend that every sincere player get this book right away!
Brass Tactics is an amazingly effective and comprehensive method book. Chase Sanborn is a GREAT trumpet player who knows EXACTLY what he’s talking about!
Chase Sanborn has a uniquely logical approach to playing the trumpet, with the musical part of this challenging endeavor always in mind. Brass Tactics is a must for every trumpet player’s library.
Brass Tactics provides a practical and all-encompassing guide to playing while plugging you into the real world as a brass player. Chase is the Marcella Hazan of brass playing!
Brass Tactics shows you how to handle yourself in any professional or amateur situation. No trumpet player, at any stage, should be without this book.
I am incredibly impressed by the clarity of thought, the attention to detail, and the very correct ideas that are presented in Brass Tactics. Chase Sanborn’s book is excellent for the beginner, but is also completely relevant to any professional. Absolutely fantastic!
FINALLY, someone has written a brass book with the correct priorities! Brass Tactics is incredibly helpful to all brass players! Thank you for writing this book!
Brass Tactics offers a comprehensive wealth of information, written by a widely-experienced player who has the ability to pass on his experiences in a positive and encouraging way. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about the trumpet.
Brass Tactics is the coolest trumpet/brass technique book I have ever seen. There’s some pretty funny stuff in there too! Brass Tactics rocks!
I have never seen so much valuable information, not only about playing the instrument, but about every other aspect of being a musician covered so completely.
Brass Tactics is a first class method that is clear and concise. I agree with what Chase Sanborn says, and how he sa
I enjoyed Brass Tactics a lot and shared it with my trumpet studio class. Brass Tactics is a very important text for all trumpet players!
Brass Tactics should be in the hands of every trumpet player!
Brass Tactics provides welcome insight into the world of the modern professional musician. For the advancing player who is serious about his art, or anyone considering a career as a professional trumpet player, this book is a must-read.
Chase Sanborn’s books provide advice from the real world of the professional player, serve as great references to other sources of material, and feature a humorous style that makes them a joy to read.
Brass Tactics is written from the perspective of a successful working trumpet player, and covers topics that I have never seen in a method book.
Brass Tactics is as thorough and clear as any book I have ever seen, and I’ve seen most of them!
Brass Tactics is precisely the kind of book I’ve been looking for-it’s helped organize my practice routine and has cleared a lot of things up. The sharp writing is an added bonus!
Just the first 25 pages are worth the price of the book!
I have spent nearly $80,000 in tuition to learn a fraction of what I’ve learned reading Brass Tactics in only a few days!
Brass Tactics is the most complete work on trumpet playing that I have ever seen!
Chase Sanborn has done an incredibly thorough job of compiling and organizing a vast amount of knowledge, hints, tips, and techniques that few trumpet players have the opportunity to learn.
Each time I read Brass Tactics I find something I hadn’t noticed before. Those of us in the trenches have needed this book for some time!
Chase Sanborn has distilled the best of the best. He never says, ‘that’s the wrong way’. He offers you his opinion of the method or technique in question and gives the pros and cons he has gathered in his experience as a player and teacher.
Brass Tactics is absolutely the best book I have in my collection. I read it completely about once a month just to keep on track.
Brass Tactics is an incredible collection of comments and ideas. I’ve never seen a book that has it all like this one does.
I’ve spent over $4000 in private lessons and only learned half as much as I did in the two days I borrowed Brass Tactics from one of my colleagues.
Brass Tactics conveys the information in a friendly, funny manner, and is also one of the nicest looking music book I have ever seen. I highly recommend this book!
Brass Tactics conveys the concentrated essence of years of instruction with a great teacher. It offers authoritative instruction, acknowledges alternative schools of thought, points out areas of unresolved controversy, and manages to balance it all with sage advice.
Brass Tactics is like a road map for the world of trumpet playing.
Brass Tactics covers all the basics and more in great detail, yet maintains a very conversational tone.
On the Brass Tactics CD, Chase Sanborn shows that he can play everything he writes about, at times sounding like he has four lungs! What a lovely player!
Brass Tactics has given me a new drive to play. It just shows that you are never too old to learn or be inspired!
The Brass Tactics CD is very helpful; it’s one thing to read about a concept, but quite another to actually hear what it should sound like. It gives the reader a target to shoot for.
The Revised Edition of Brass Tactics is very concise, and humorous. The accompanying CD alone is worth every penny! I wish this book had been available twenty years ago!
Brass Tactics is brilliant! The writing is refreshing and no avenue remains unexplored. It all makes perfect sense!
Brass Tactics is clearly written, reaches all levels, is humorous, and gives the player a bona fide real world view of the requirements for aspiring and professional trumpeters. BRAVO!
One thing I have learned: do not take Brass Tactics to bed! Once you start, there is no putting it down!
Brass Tactics covers every detail, there is nothing one could add.
Brass Tactics is a killer! Chase Sanborn sure has it all together-he’s a wonderful musician!
I laid up my horn when I started medical school. Now, 24 years later, Brass Tactics has made returning to playing enjoyable and easier than I had expected, and taught me many things that I wish I had learned the first time around.
Never before has any trumpet manual hit me with so much pure truth. At last I understand!