Paul Baron’s Broadway Trumpeter series is one of the most successful series of books in the history of qPress. With these books, aspiring players and professionals at all levels get guidance through 100 musicals, complete with excerpts and commentary from a leading broadway trumpeter, and the response has been off the charts. For the first time ever, you can now get both volumes together at 40% off, so you can enjoy these 550+ pages at pennies on the dollars, for a limited time.

Paul Baron is one of today’s most highly respected lead and commercial trumpet players. His sound is distinctly powerful and carries with it decades of experience in a wide range of musical styles. Musicality and passion are audible in each note Paul plays, and while touring the world playing the biggest Broadway musicals, he has taken the time to organize his thoughts on what it takes to be a successful Broadway Trumpeter. Along with his writings on the subject of playing trumpet in musical theatre, he has also compiled an incredible list of 100 musicals and their most notable trumpet excerpts with explanations on what to look out for if you get the call to take on one of these shows yourself. The result is two Broadway grand methods totalling 550+ pages for the Broadway Trumpeter; Nothing like this has ever existed for the trumpet before, and you are going to absolutely love it.

Paul writes in his foreword “I first thought about writing these books more than thirty years ago because I thought it would be a great resource which would benefit players, conductors, and producers alike. For the player, having such a book easily at hand, with tons of excerpts all in one place, is a valuable tool in working on all aspects of being a well-rounded and employable player. I get many messages, emails, and calls from trumpet players all over North America with questions about certain shows. And this book holds all of the answers.”

To the left you will find samples from each book, and above you can grab an immediate digital download of the bundle. The complete table of contents from each volume can be found below, and in the sample pages.

More from Paul Baron

1. Baron, Adventures in Trumpet Playing
2. Baron, The Broadway Trumpeter Vol.1 
3. Baron, The Broadway Trumpeter Vol.2
4. Baron, Trumpet Voluntarily
5. Baron, Trumpet Voluntarily Warm-Ups

Volume 1: Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Warming Up For That Consistent Show
• Horn Choreography
• Blending
• Mute Choreography
• Pacing
• Pit Etiquette
• Playing To The Room Or Playing To The Mic
• Styles
• Thoughts On Subbing
• Balancing The Show With Practice

Musicals from the 1920s-1950s

• 42nd Street
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Anything Goes
• Carousel
• Guys And Dolls
• Gypsy
• Holiday Inn
• Kiss Me, Kate
• My Fair Lady
• Oklahoma
• On The Town
• Singin’ In The Rain
• Sound Of Music
• South Pacific
• West Side Story
• White Christmas
• Wizard of Oz

Musicals from the 1960s & 1970s

• Annie
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Cabaret
• Chicago
• Chorus Line
• Evita
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Funny Girl
• Hello Dolly
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Man of La Mancha
• The Wiz

Musicals from the 1980s & 1990s

• Beauty and the Beast
• Cats
• City of Angels
• Crazy for You
• Dreamgirls
• Into the Woods
• Les Misérables
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Miss Saigon
• Phantom of the Opera

Musicals from the 2000s

• A Christmas Story
• Aladdin
• Book of Mormon
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Elf
• Frozen
• Full Monty
• In the Heights
• Kinky Boots
• Memphis
• Newsies
• The Producers
• Sister Act
• Spamalot
• Wicked

Volume 2: Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Who I Am, and What I Do
• Playing in musical theater
• Practicing, Pacing, and Preparing for a Show
• Equipment Choices
• The Section
• Improvisation
• Marking Parts
• Following The Conductor
• Instrumentation Through the Years
• Reduced Orchestration
• Securing Gigs

Annotated Musical Excerpts

• 9 to 5
• 1776
• The Addams Family
• All Shook Up
• An American In Paris
• Annie Warbucks
• Assassins
• Back to the ’80s
• Big River
• Carnival
• Catch Me If You Can
• Drowsy Chaperone
• Finian’s Rainbow
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
• Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder
• Grease
• Hairspray
• It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Legally Blonde
• Oliver!
• Once Upon A Mattress
• Pajama Game
• Peter Pan
• Pippin
• Promises, Promises
• Ragtime
• The Secret Garden
• Seussical The Musical
• She Loves Me
• Shrek The Musical
• Wedding Singer
• The Wild Party
• Wonderland
• World Goes Round
• Young Frankenstein