Books by Phil Collins

Here we are talking about the OTHER Phil Collins. Phil served as principal trumpet with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras for over thirty years. His books are wonderful additions to the repertoire, where the emphasis is on musical performance at least as much as technical proficiency, peppered with words of wisdom.
 
We previously sold Phil's books for $30. We are clearing out the remaining stock at half price. They've been sitting on the shelf, so some of the covers are not perfectly pristine, but the content is gold. Four titles are currently available:
 
POPS ORCHESTRA / TRUMPET ONE addresses the myriad musical situations faced by the 1st trumpet player playing pops or commercial repertoire. Musically satisfying and stylistically diverse, these etudes are not terribly difficult, but there are many twists and turns that challenge your reading, endurance, dynamics, articulation, key fluency and overall musicality.  There is nothing quite like this book for developing the commercial style of orchestral playing.
 
TRUMPETUDES contains 100 full-length studies based on the orchestral repertoire. Phil often compares a study to specific pieces in the classic literature. Somewhat more difficult than the etudes in Trumpet 1, this book is geared towards a moderately advanced player. TrumpEtudes will prepare you for pretty much everything you might encounter, and will keep you entertained and challenged throughout.
 
PICCOLO TRUMPET STUDIES contains 105 etudes of easy to moderate difficulty, with a focus on control, tone, ease of playing and intonation with the same security expected on the larger trumpets. Technical challenges are framed in musical contexts, frequently referencing specific composers or pieces. As the pieces are written an octave below where they sound on piccolo, they are playable on larger horns as well. The book is prefaced with four pages of concise but insightful advice for approaching the piccolo trumpet. This is a welcome addition to the scant repertoire of studies for piccolo trumpet.
 
PERFORMING ETUDES are inspired by Phil's lessons with Mel Broiles, former Principal Trumpet of the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In the introduction, Phil writes: Mel was a master at inspiring and motivating students. At lessons he would perform entire etudes with impressive artistry, power and finesse. In addition to his dazzling playing, he offered blunt but effective words of wisdom, including two comments that I'll never forget:
 
1. A great trumpet player equals BRAINS plus BLOW. With both, you will go twice as far.
 
2. If there's no pizzazz in your practice room, you can't expect it to be there on stage.