With thousands of study books and classical/traditional solos at qPress, one thing becomes more and more clear: we need to fill gaps in modern brass repertoire with books that are accessible by a wide range of players and in a variety of styles that are often overlooked by publishers.

Erik Veldkamp’s new series of Pop Music Play-Alongs is the best example of this type of writing for the trombone that we have ever seen. Each volume in this series includes 15 original songs, each in a different pop-music style, and each including both a full demo audio track performed by Erik himself and a backing track of such high quality that you will be proud to program these on recitals or use them in studio lessons every week.

Each purchase from the Pop Music Play-Along Series includes a PDF copy of the book along with a full set of MP3 audio of both demo tracks and play-along tracks.

The only way to really explain how great these arrangements is to let you listen and follow along, so below this text find two audio demos by Erik Veldkamp, and click the cover page on this listing to bring up the corresponding sample pages. If you love them, just click above to grab an immediate digital download.

Listen to Erik perform “Moving On” (on trumpet)

Listen to Erik perform “Expectations” (on trumpet)

Books in This Series

1. Veldkamp, Pop Music Play-Alongs for Trombone 1
2. Veldkamp, Pop Music Play-Alongs for Trombone 2
3. Veldkamp, Pop Music Play-Alongs for Trombone 3