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Foreword Keith Johnson
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Preface
- Embouchure
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The Big Four: Embouchure
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Do They Pivot in Peoria?
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Endurance
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The Low-Down on Pedal Tones
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Smashing the Lips
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High Notes
- Breathing
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The Big Four: Breath
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Open Up-For Tone's Sake!
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The Head Position and the Airway
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How Long Is a Long Tone?
- Tonguing
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The Big Four: Tongue
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Breath Attacks
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Triple Tonguing Is as Simple as One, Tu, Three
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Videofluorographic Research with Dr. Alexander M. Finlay
- Fingering
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The Big Four: Fingers
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The Arch of the Fingers
- Musicianship
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On Stage-The Reason for Being
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Who Says Playing from Memory Is Important?
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I Could Hear Every Word You Played
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Crescendo and Accelerando
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How Loud Is Loud?
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Vibrato
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The Three C's-Continuity, Contrast, Climax
- Intonation
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Tune as You Play
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Get Those Third Slides Out
- Equipment
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Haynie's Horns
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Mouthpieces-The Holy Grail of Trumpeters
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The Inside Story of Leadpipes
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A Comparison of Cornets and Trumpets and the People Who Play Them: A Two-Part Story
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The Metronome-My Friend
- Habits
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Warming Up and Down
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Bad Habits-According to Whom?
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Practice Makes Perfect-But What Is Perfect?
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Trumpet Jaywalking
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The "Go for It" Attitude
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Rhythmic Entrances and Jump Rope
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Man, I Know What I Need to Practice
- Mental Discipline
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John Dewey's Spirit of Change and Other Guiding Principles
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Motivation
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Stress
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Sight Reading and Transposition
- Miscellaneous
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Developing a Trumpet Library
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Writings, Recordings, Composers
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The Audition for a Scholarship
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Why Teach?
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Girls and Trumpets
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The Non-Jazzer, Found Out
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Try Fly Fishing-It Is Easy
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Golf-A Game for Trumpet Players
- Autobiography
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A Boy and His Horn
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My Life with Robert Maddox
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All-State Bands and Contests
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Colonel Earl D. Irons-My Childhood Hero
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War and Duty
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Haskell Sexton-My Teacher
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Leroy Kirsch-My Illinois Standmate
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A Six-Week Audition
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Listening and Learning in the 1950s
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Marilyn, Melinda, Mark
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Mark Hindsley-My Father-in-Law
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The Grand Performance
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Afterword Anne Hardin
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Contributors
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Index of Names