Modern Flexibilities for Brass: Bass Clef

I'm a professional musician and teacher. for 30 years. I love this book; it's a great change from the flexibility books that most players are very familiar with. Schlossberg, Irons, Colin, Bai Lin, are all great books, but if you are familiar with them, this will be a welcome change. It doesn't let you slip into autopilot ; the harmonic changes it puts you through do not permit you to go to sleep mentally. I will be using this with students as well, as the range is not excessive, but it's still a great workout. It's a great addition to the warmup. Plus, there is humor in the commentary that I find enjoyable. And I'm not the only one. Any book that has endorsements from Vincent DiMartino, Byron Stripling, Ray Mase, Charles Lazarus, Peter Bond, Joey Tartell, and Lew Soloff must be good; these are top players in Jazz and Classical music. Highly Recommended.

Gotta add my voice to the chorus of praise for this great book. Before getting this book, I never would have imagined that I could find a lip slur book to be both entertaining and musically interesting, but that's just what it is! Instead of the typical harmonic dead end of staying in a single overtone series for each study, these clever exercises shift from one fingering to another to create witty and challenging lines that often evoke the harmonies of modern jazz. Frequent use of odd meters provide a rhythmic kick, and the whole thing is topped off by punning and satirical titles and written "instructions" that range from silly to laugh-out-loud funny. The book is fairly difficult. There's very little that would be accessible to young players, but advanced students and professionals will love it.

Scott’s lip slurs are very unique, in that each exercise is a set of patterns that any player may find useful in real-life setting in soloing. They each consist of a combination of fundamental horn lengths—we usually refer to these as “fingerings”—to combine variations of overtones in adjacent horn lengths to execute patterns of lip slurs. While these exercises each require some concentration to wrap your brain and fingers around, they are simultaneously quite challenging and fun. There is no real objective here, except to explore varied combinations of partials relative to the partials in one or more other overtone series.

These Flexibilities have made their way into my daily routine. Very entertaining, forces the performer to think about where they are in the slur unlike a standard lip slur exercise. Belck's witty comments in the style section still make me laugh when I am working on them. Book is very cleanly arranged, and very legible. I am a trombone player: the book is in treble clef Bb, but is easy to sight-transpose to any brass instrument.

A book by a great trumpet player with an interesting take on lip slurs - far from the Schlossberg, Colin studies. Interesting and fun to play.

Not another book with the same description on how to use. Humor is part of what make this book outstanding, don't get complaisant either, this has some serious slurs that require practice and concentration.

Good practice book

This book provides brass players with unique slurring exercises which require focus and invaluable ear training during the daily practice session. These exercises will challenge and interest brass players of all skill levels.

Totally gets you into doing stuff you hate to practice.

A must buy for any horn player, beginner or advanced. I have never owned a method book with more wit and humor. As an added bonus, he even saw fit to make the exercises themselves pretty good.

I'm a professional musician and teacher. for 30 years. I love this book; it's a great change from the flexibility books that most players are very familiar with. Schlossberg, Irons, Colin, Bai Lin, are all great books, but if you are familiar with them, this will be a welcome change. It doesn't let you slip into autopilot ; the harmonic changes it puts you through do not permit you to go to sleep mentally. I will be using this with students as well, as the range is not excessive, but it's still a great workout. It's a great addition to the warmup. Plus, there is humor in the commentary that I find enjoyable. And I'm not the only one. Any book that has endorsements from Vincent DiMartino, Byron Stripling, Ray Mase, Charles Lazarus, Peter Bond, Joey Tartell, and Lew Soloff must be good; these are top players in Jazz and Classical music. Highly Recommended.

Gotta add my voice to the chorus of praise for this great book. Before getting this book, I never would have imagined that I could find a lip slur book to be both entertaining and musically interesting, but that's just what it is! Instead of the typical harmonic dead end of staying in a single overtone series for each study, these clever exercises shift from one fingering to another to create witty and challenging lines that often evoke the harmonies of modern jazz. Frequent use of odd meters provide a rhythmic kick, and the whole thing is topped off by punning and satirical titles and written "instructions" that range from silly to laugh-out-loud funny. The book is fairly difficult. There's very little that would be accessible to young players, but advanced students and professionals will love it.

Scott’s lip slurs are very unique, in that each exercise is a set of patterns that any player may find useful in real-life setting in soloing. They each consist of a combination of fundamental horn lengths—we usually refer to these as “fingerings”—to combine variations of overtones in adjacent horn lengths to execute patterns of lip slurs. While these exercises each require some concentration to wrap your brain and fingers around, they are simultaneously quite challenging and fun. There is no real objective here, except to explore varied combinations of partials relative to the partials in one or more other overtone series.

These Flexibilities have made their way into my daily routine. Very entertaining, forces the performer to think about where they are in the slur unlike a standard lip slur exercise. Belck's witty comments in the style section still make me laugh when I am working on them. Book is very cleanly arranged, and very legible. I am a trombone player: the book is in treble clef Bb, but is easy to sight-transpose to any brass instrument.

A book by a great trumpet player with an interesting take on lip slurs - far from the Schlossberg, Colin studies. Interesting and fun to play.

Not another book with the same description on how to use. Humor is part of what make this book outstanding, don't get complaisant either, this has some serious slurs that require practice and concentration.

Good practice book

This book provides brass players with unique slurring exercises which require focus and invaluable ear training during the daily practice session. These exercises will challenge and interest brass players of all skill levels.

Totally gets you into doing stuff you hate to practice.

A must buy for any horn player, beginner or advanced. I have never owned a method book with more wit and humor. As an added bonus, he even saw fit to make the exercises themselves pretty good.

It's refreshing by its new ideas! I'm having fun!

Wonderful exercise book and a fresh take on lip slurs! Recommend for all trumpeters

The book surpassed my expectations. Find it very helpful, even after 50 years of playing trumpet-45 of those years professional. Solid exercises with helpful text, written with wit. I had to 'friend' the author, on facebook.

This is a very unique take on lip slurs and flexibility exercises. It is definitely a great change of pace for any intermediate or advanced player. The exercises are only written in B flat treble clef, which may cause issues for some less experienced musicians.

Awesome book! A must for any serious trumpet player - both fun and challenging to play, and hilarious notes by the author.

Scott's book is unusual in the fact you can start on any page of his flexibilities studies and have at it. The studies are in a range that suits a wide variety of players from seasoned to beginners.

Very nice change to the standard and very predictable lip flexibility books out there.

Outstanding! If you like your lip slurs down and dirty, with a high degree of humorosity thrown in, then this is the book for you!

These are great flexies! So left handed. . . they definitely keep you on your game! I highly recommend them!

This is a great new take on lip flexibilities. It should be in every brass player's library!

These are interesting lip slur patterns - a creative approach; enjoyable to practice. They are really good for the lip.

Highly recommended

This is the most interesting and enjoyable book I've experienced in many years. A great new treat for brass players!

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After having many a book, new horiozons, chas collins.. I was bored to death of them. That was until I saw an online review about this book. The book is really interesting and is not your usual standard lip flex exercises, lots of changing of fingers and lengh of the instrument. I saw Wayne Bergeron had the book and mentioned it the other week on an online trumpet chat. I'd reccomend to buy.

Very innovative and challenging initially, but with perseverence, well worth it. Slightly quirky, substantially different studies of this type. Give it a go.

For the serious trumpet player. Awesome book. Very refreshing take on other older books. Simply love it.

A useful and much more succinct alternative to Colin's Lip Flexibilities. Some very nice exercises that will spur you on to invent your own.

Fantastic book, really helps and works, fun to play as well.

a creative approach to technical work and good fun into the bargain

very good and a new approach to lip slurs

Excellent new way of playing lip flexibilities

ottimo libro per esercitarsi con la tromba. Qualità delle pagine molto buone. con carta da 100 grammi, difficilmente strappabile. Peccato per la spedizione un po lenta

Didattica innovativa, era ora che ci fosse un libro di flessibilità così. Pieno di intervalli interessanti e al tempo stesso progressivo, evita che lo studio possa essere noioso. Le annotazioni piene di Humor sono un valore aggiunto

Ottimo

Endlich eine moderne Alternative zu Colins, Irons, Smith usw. Auch mit Schülern empfehlenswert, macht Spaß und klingt nach was. Toll!