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​Lesson 4 EXTRAS

Increase Your Range:
How to Play Higher

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Rashawn Ross (E over Triple C + bop licks)


A few masters of the stratosphere

Maynard Ferguson
Conrad Gozzo
Cat Anderson
Snooky Young
Al Porcino
Roy Eldridge
Phil Driscoll
Mic Gillette
Bill Chase
Doc Severinsen
James Morrison: James Morrison is a phenomenal musician with incredible range, in more than one sense of that word. Listen to him and get a sense of his prodigious chops and sense of humor in the video for Snappy Too, below, in which he plays all the instruments in a big band except for the drums, played by the great  Jeff Hamilton.

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A good article on lip injury and prevention here.


​Larry Meregillano's Isometric Exercises


The (controversial) pencil exercise 

as presented by trumpeter Eric Bolvin, who has some great educational material at his site.

Warburton's P.E.T.E. (personal embouchure training device)

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Cat Anderson playing lead with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1956


Larry Meregillano again, explaining the Cat Anderson middle-G compared to the Costello pencil exercise.


Helpful books on range:

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More Power, More Range


Other helpful players on range:

Charlie Porter
Kurt Thompson  
Larry Meregillano 

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