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Jerry Hey – Larry Hall Extended William Adam Trumpet Routine

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About the Trumpet Routine

Larry Hall (far right) recording a project for Seawind.

We have received many requests for the trumpet routine that Larry Hall and Jerry Hey practiced together
at Indiana University under their trumpet professor Mr. William “Bill” Adam. Larry and Jerry were
generous to spend several hours researching and compiling the exercises they practiced along with
some of the modifications.

They provided some examples of how they would modify individual exercises to keep them fresh and
expand how they trained their ears. Be creative and come up with your own!

This routine is not intended as a one-size-fits-all approach to the trumpet. It should be used as an
informative look into their daily routine and how they expanded the exercises.

The Trumpet Routine

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 Jerry Hey taking a trumpet solo at the Playboy Jazz
Festival.

Mr. Adam ascribed to the “rest as long as you play” concept. Practicing with a friend helped insure that
and also gets one used to playing in front of others.

Our daily practice was broken up into sessions. None of this was rigidly adhered to. The 1st session was
pretty much the same everyday, but sessions 2 and 3 were pick and choose to keep things fresh,
interesting and challenge ourselves.

Our practice session times could total 4 to 5 hours. Mr. Adam always said 3 hours was a minimum
comprised of an hour for: basic maintenance, technique, and solo and repertoire literature.

1st Session

Clarke #1- Start on F# in the staff, F, G and expand outward.

The rest of the 1st session of the day is all Schlossberg:

#6 – Start soft, Crescendo to next bar and Decrescendo
#23, 24,25, 27
#36B – Start with variation A, then variations 2, 3, 4 and 5 going up a half step with each variation.
# 95 – Sustain top notes resting or trading off with you partner at each breath mark.
#97* – The goal was to play in one breath. Keep air relaxed. This can be extended out to F#.
#99 & #100 – Play #99 as is resting at the end of each key signature, Start #100 on low F# and extend
exercise to F# an octave up or keep going as high as you can.
#102a* – Each day pick a different variation of scales, (major, minor, harmonic minor). Also pick a
variation of intervals, (3rds, 4ths, 5ths). Extend outward to F#.
#120-123, #128

*When extending #97 and #102a to F# both low and high, break up doing every one every day. Day 1,
start #97 on C, go to B, C#, A, Eb, G, F. Start exercise #102a on C, go to Bb, D, Ab, E, F#, F#. On day 2
swap these patterns for each exercise.

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 2nd Session

Next session start with Clarke 2nd , 3rd or 4th Study. Always start on E below the staff and expand
outward to low F# and C in the staff. When playing the 2nd Study, change modes on each repetition,
Major, Minor, Diminished scales.

Arban’s P. 14 #16-27 – Play each exercise twice, 1st time all slurred, REST, 2nd time all single tongued.
Play a few articulated 8VA.

Arban’s #46-50 – Start with #47 and #48, transpose each in all keys. Then play #49, #50, then #46.

Schlossberg #45

Arban’s double tonguing P. 175, #77-94 – Play #88-90 in all keys

Some Arban’s triple tonguing

Schlossberg Chord Studies #70 single tongue, #71 slur 1st 2 notes tongue next 2, #73 All Slurred

Arban’s p.297 Characteristic Study #13 The goal is to play in one breath. “Never heard anyone make it!”
– J

Other Arban’s :

p.39 #3,4,5. p.40, p. 41

p.138 #35, 38, p.140 #41-47
p.142-p.151, p.56
p.125 #1, p.135 #23
p.28-36 Single tongue 8th notes, double tongue 16ths.

Obviously not every exercise was played each day but this material would get covered during the week.

Saint-Jacome’s
157 Always single tongue, start with 1st exercise, 1st Variant triplets, #4 sixteenths, #11 sextuplets. The
repeated G is in the staff, try playing all these variations with the repeated G above the staff. Once
Mastered (J or L) try p. 161 and variations. CORNERS!!!!

OK, I THINK WE’VE HAD ENOUGH FOR A WHILE

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3rd Session

Start 3rd session with another Clarke

Arban’s Chromatic Triplets p.76, #1-5, p. 80, 10-23

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 Saint-Jacome’s Bugle Call p.19 #26, p.24, p.49 #3, p.68 & p. 81

Selection of Charlier or Bitsch etudes, Art of the Trumpet (Originally titled “Common Sense” by William
Thiecke)

We usually finished off each day with Maggio Long Range Chromatic. 1st a flexibility pattern to start out
loose. Slur from low C, G to C in the staff, lip trill between G and C then back to low C. Rest. Go down
by ½ steps to low F#. Rest.

Play chromatically from low F# up to F# in the staff back to low F#, breath, F# in the staff chromatically
down to low F# back up to F#. Breath. Start on low G and do the same pattern and continue to go up
by ½ steps. Continue upward to as high as you can go. It does get better but never easier.

You Do Not trade off or rest till you’re done. And you WILL be done at this point.

Learn More about Jerry Hey, Larry Hall, and William Adam

Recording the tribute to Mr. Adam, from left to right: Bob

Reeves, Larry Hall, Charley Davis, Jerry Hey, Robert
Slack, Chris Botti, John Snell, Preston Shepard.

If you are interested in learning more about Jerry Hey, Larry Hall, or their teacher at Indiana University,
William Adam, check out our trumpet podcast, The Other Side of the Bell.

Jerry Hey’s interview can be heard on Episode 22.

Larry Hall’s episode can be heard on episode 14.

The William Adam Tribute podcast can be heard on episode 15, featuring Jerry Hey, Larry Hall, Chris
Botti, Charley Davis, Robert Slack and many contributors.

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