Trumpet Lessons – Experienced Music Teacher
Quality Private Trumpet Lessons MA, NH – Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced
David Summer has over 40 years of professional experience as a trumpet teacher, giving quality private trumpet lessons to students from beginner trumpet players to advanced trumpeters.
Are you an adult who used to play the trumpet and are thinking about getting back into the instrument? David is an expert at helping adult music students rediscover the joy of playing the trumpet.
David holds a degree in Music Education, and focuses on giving private music lessons, but also still performs professionally as a trumpet player throughout central MA and southern NH. David is a patient, caring and motivating trumpet teacher who truly enjoys giving private trumpet lessons to music students of all ages and abilities.
All trumpet students studying with David are offered a comprehensive music lesson curriculum that combines the study of classical, jazz and pop music and is tailored to each individual student’s interests and abilities. The trumpet is rich with excellent performance repertoire, including music from the baroque and classical periods to pop and modern jazz. David helps his music students explore and interpret these pieces as they learn to play the trumpet.
Trumpet and Music Fundamentals
David incorporates music fundamentals such as sight reading, scales, rhythms, practice techniques and music performance skills into all his private trumpet lessons. He also includes music theory studies in his trumpet lessons to help each student feel more comfortable and confident when playing the trumpet in any musical environment.
“I’ve been taking trumpet lessons with David Summer for over 2 years now. I’m a come-back player so I need fundamentals and technique, but he also challenges me to grow as a musician. Every lesson is something new: show tunes, classics, improvisation, theory. With David you get it all and I’m having a blast. Can’t wait for my next lesson!“
Efficient breathing and breath control are essential ingredients to playing the trumpet successfully. A properly formed, strong embouchure is essential to achieving a good trumpet tone and is also important in other aspects of trumpet playing including endurance, range and flexibility. David helps beginning and intermediate trumpet students to better understand these fundamentals and then coaches all of his students, adults and children, as they develop their ability to integrate these music fundamentals into their trumpet playing.
Each student is different in their physical ability, their playing goals and the time they can spend practicing the trumpet. David helps his trumpet students create a custom music practice routine to make the best, most effective, use of each student’s available trumpet practice time. Students are able to maintain and improve their trumpet playing according to their own schedule.
Jazz Trumpet Instruction
David has taught many trumpet players the fundamentals of jazz improvisation. He uses music play along materials as part of his jazz trumpet lessons to make improvising on the trumpet fun and introduces jazz trumpet students to standards from the jazz performance repertoire via The Real Book. David also incorporates ear training in his jazz improvisation curriculum so trumpet students learn how to hear chord changes and recognize musical patterns.
In addition to jazz improvisation, David helps trumpet players discover and interpret the vast number of jazz standards that are especially well suited for playing on the trumpet. He has a special interest in jazz from the American Songbook. This repertoire features composers like George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc. David introduces younger students to these composers and helps his many adult trumpet students enjoy playing and improvising on these jazz standards.
David has helped many classically trained trumpet students discover the fun of playing jazz. Playing jazz and improvising can open up a whole new world of musical expression on the trumpet, whether you’d like to participate in a local jam session, play in a jazz band or just have fun playing with some accompaniment tracks.
Trumpet Duets, Music Reading
Duet playing, classical duets and/or jazz duets according to student interest, are an important part of the trumpet curriculum as well. David plays trumpet duets with his students in their music lessons to help with music reading and to improve the student’s ability to play along with other instrumentalists. (Plus they’re fun!)
Trumpet Lessons for Adults
David specializes in teaching adult trumpet students. Advanced trumpet players, adults returning to playing the trumpet or first time adult trumpet players. Playing the trumpet, and taking music lessons as an adult, is a time honored constructive way to help keep your mind active and have fun at the same time.
As a trumpet teacher for over 40 years, David has helped generations of adult trumpet players discover or rediscover the joy that comes from making your own music. Playing the trumpet can be a wonderful life-long hobby.
Advanced Trumpet Lessons
Advanced trumpet students will appreciate David’s ability to teach advanced trumpet techniques such as transposition skills. Being able to transpose is an essential aspect of trumpet performance at the advancing and professional levels. Other advanced trumpet topics can include developing trumpet range, double tonguing, tone development, mouthpiece selection and musical instrument purchases.
Music performance skills are another important part of the trumpet curriculum for a successful, advancing trumpet student. David helps advancing trumpet students find performance opportunities according to their interest. He also enjoys helping advanced trumpeters find their own musical voice through improvisation and musical interpretation. David strongly believes that advanced trumpet students should have the opportunity to bring their own individual experiences and aesthetics to the music.
Experienced Trumpet Teacher
As a highly experienced music teacher, David takes pride in his patience and his ability to encourage, motivate and inspire his trumpet students. He believes the best trumpet teachers take the time to play along with their students in their lessons. David enjoys playing the trumpet with all his students, beginners, intermediate and advanced students alike, and teaching trumpet lessons through patient explanation and example.
Most of all David Makes Learning to Play the Trumpet Fun
All trumpet lessons are one hour private lessons and are tailored to each individual student’s musical interests and ability. Trumpet lessons may be scheduled on a regular weekly basis or “one at a time” trumpet lessons are available. These one at a time lessons are especially good for busy adult trumpet students who are unable to commit to regularly scheduled weekly music lessons.
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David Summer Music Studio Location
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