Charles Colin Music Publications

Basics of good tuba playing taught through 26 etudes and explained in cartoons and eye-arresting captions designed to capture the attention of young, beginning players.

Basics of good tuba playing taught through 26 etudes and explained in cartoons and eye-arresting captions designed to capture the attention of young, beginning players.

After studying trumpet and cornet with such accomplished musicians as Louis Davidson (Cleveland Symphony), Herbert L. Clark (Famous Cornetist), Oscar B. Short (Soloist- GoldmanSousa - US Navy Band) an...

Rhythms Complete By Bugs Bower and Dr. Charles Colin is the most widely used primer in the world for teaching rhythm, syncopation and phrasing, employing a very melodic format of exercises in rhythmic...

Given the many demanding disciplines involved in achieving a solid "sound" on the trumpet, it's easy to understand why most trumpet methods concentrate on breath control/ support, range and endurance-...

This book is a compilation of basic concepts and some common sense ideas from the author, Jon Gordon. It provides some necessary, but sometimes neglected information that is essential to being able to...

Improvisational Patterns: The Bebop Era' is a series of pattern books predicated on the belief that while certain patterns seem to transcend eras and styles, the greater body of improvisational materi...

Patterns und technische Etüden zur Improvisation

This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques. It's divided into scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases...

Jazz Scales is a study of major scales and harmonic minor scales using rhythmical jazz patterns.

As recounted by our dad, Charles Colin, he was first introduced to Miles in the mid '50's by Charlie Parker. Pop had already published Charlie Parker's, 'Yardbird Originals' under our other publishing...

Perhaps second only to the Arban Complete Celebrated Method is the Complete Modern Method for Trumpet by Ernest S. Williams. This massive tome of exercises, etudes, duets and solos is a must have in e...

Clifford Brown, by far my favourite jazz trumpeter, was one of the finest jazz musicians of his generation. This fantastic three volume collection of transcriptions follows his entire career, covering...

Systematic, efficient method for warming up quickly. Excercises for long tones, lip slurs, tonguing, valve-and-tongue coordination. Text on breath control, note values. Beginner/Intermediate level.

Against the Grain Playing - Scales and Chords

For All Treble Clef instruments. Contents include chapters on: Patterns Using 4ths, Patterns Using 5ths, Patterns Using 3rds, Whole Tone Patterns, Diminished Patterns, Diminished Scales, Augmented Cho...