Endurance Drills for Performance Skills, Chris Gekker. Trumpet

ENDURANCE DRILLS FOR PERFORMANCE SKILLS

This book is subtitled: Scale & chord studies intended for the development of the most basic skills: A smooth & relaxed air flow, a compact efficient tongue stroke, and a responsive aperture framed by a strong, stable embouchure (plus 5 Bach transcriptions).

Chris Gekkers Endurance Drills for Performance Skills has a simple mandate not unlike Herbert L Clarkes Technical Studies to play with ease in all registers, keeping the embouchure fresh and pliable. Clarke called endurance 90% of cornet playing and you can see here that Gekker agrees. His attention to detail in his own practice comes out in these studies and he even quotes the great flutist Julius Baker who quipped If I never make a mistake, Ill never make a mistake. Very true, and if you have heard Gekker perform or have listened to his recordings, you can tell he strives for this perfection every day.