Murray Karpilovsky was the Principal Trumpet with the Symphony of the Air under Arturo Toscanini, and he played with Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Stoessel and Thomas Scherman during his long and storied career.

The most successful and visible trumpeters are asked every day, without fail, how they are able to maintain such a high level of playing for so long and while under so much pressure. This book of 100 daily drills by Karpilovsky was an emphatic answer to that question. This set of daily exercises is over 90 pages, and for practice he suggests the drills from number one through number twenty three be done every day; starting with the open valves and progressing through all of the valve combinations in order. This is to be supplemented with the chromatic and scale wise exercises that follow from 76-100, adding dynamics, crescendos, and articulations to complete all areas of playing in one solid routine.

I have included a few pages to the left to try for free. Then you can grab an immediate PDF download above.