Grand Method For Trumpet Or Cornet

By Louis Saint-Jacome

I enetered the Royal Marines in 1966 and was trained using this method, alonside others, for four years. I have been using the method eversince. I play daily and use the method continuously for myself and my students. It is progressive and has many great exercises and studies. Also the...

duets are second to none. i would recommend this to any aspiring brass player.

This book holds the dubious distinction of being the second (and mostly forgotten) best trumpet "Bible" of all time after Arban's method. Saint Jacome's book clearly influenced such geniuses as Herbert L. Clarke and Claude Gordon, who incorporated a lot of ideas in their own works. But the...

sad fact remains, as excellent as this book is overall, the eccentric, bewildering layout of exercises has made it an also-ran. That's a shame because it contains some spectacularly good stuff (much better exercises on articulation, range, and flexibiity than Arban's and some fine duets) and the terrific Bousquet Studies. I think that overall, this book is probably more difficult than Arban's method, but I highly recommend rediscovering this wonderful work.