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Mel Bay - The Buglers Handbook (Full Size Book)

Mel Bay - The Buglers Handbook (Full Size Book)

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Type: Brass
Brand: Mel Bay Publications
Category: Songbook
Genre: Educational / Music Teaching

The Buglers Handbook (Full Size Book)

40 All-Time Favourite Bugle Calls 

The Bugler's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to mastering the bugle. This full-size book introduces foundational music concepts, including tone production, music theory, and advanced techniques like double and triple tonguing.

With clear explanations and exercises, it helps players build a solid technique. The book also features 40 all-time favourite bugle calls, making it an essential resource for both beginners and advanced players. Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their bugling skills, this 36-page handbook combines technical instruction with practical performance material. 

Contents Includes:

Basics of Bugle Playing

How to Produce a Tone

Actual Pitch and Extended Range of the Bugle in G

Music Theory

Whole Note Study

Climb the Mountain and Hold On (Bugle Call)

Half Note Study

Come to Church (Bugle Call)

Whole Note and Half Note Study

Wash Up (Bugle Call)

Time to Play

Quarter Note Study

Around About (Bugle Call)

Where Did You Get That Drummer?

Sleepy Time

Study in Quarter Notes, Half Notes and Whole Notes

Let’s Go to School

Fast Drill

Study in Quarter Notes and Rests

Study in Half Notes and Rests

Study in Whole Notes and Rests

Study in Eighth Notes, Quarter Notes, Half Notes and Whole Notes

Study in:

Eighth Notes and Eighth Rest

Quarter Notes and Eighth Rest

Half Notes and Eighth Rest

Whole Notes and Eighth Rest

Taps

Mess Call

Assembly

First Call

Reveille (in 4)

Old Timer

Sixteenth Note Study

Triple Tonguing

Double Tonguing

Assembly

Drill

To the Colors

Recall

Tattoo

Tap

First Call

Reveille (in 2)

Mess Call

Memories

Good Friends

The Rainbow

Harvest Tim

You’re in the Army Now

Old Soldiers

Over the Top

Hit the Trail

Pleasant Dreams

Bugler’s Parade

Clouds Adrifting

Forest Capers

Twilight Dreams

Ole Buddies

Lonesome Pine

Happy Days

British Bugle Calls

Reveille

Retrea

Tattoo (Last Post)

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