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I've just started playing trumpet. I've been self-teaching for about 3 months, using the original "A Tune A Day" book one, and I'm about half way through. My range is something like 2 octaves (I can hit the 5th harmonic ok, after that it gets a bit sketchy).

I would really like to get into playing some more jazz and funk styles, but Tune A Day is pretty classical/folky. I've tried looking up some well known jazz trumpet music, but most of it requires quite high register to play, and I'm not confident enough with transposing to make it an enjoyable experience trying to play this stuff.

What are your recommendations for getting into jazz and funk playing styles, for a beginner? What books should I read? Which musicians should I listen to, which music should I try and play? What online resources exist?

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I'd love it if someone could tag this with "beginner" and "funk" - they seem like some useful tags. – naught101 Jul 28 '12 at 5:49
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This question is overly broad- it has multiple questions built into it. 1. What are your recommendations for getting into jazz and funk playing styles Most all recommendation questions are off-topic here, and this one seems overly broad anyway. 2. What books should I read? Asking for shopping listening recommendations is off topic. 3. Which musicians should I listen to Listening recommendations are also off topic. 4. which music should I try and play? I believe shopping recommendations are off topic also. 5. What online resources exist?Requesting a list of resources is off topic. 500 – Luke Jul 28 '12 at 12:39
Hey. Luke is basically right here. To me this seems like you're trying to fit a discussion into our "specific questions only" mold, which is great, but it doesn't quite work. Our chatroom might be a good place for something like this, although I think any answer is going to be a variation of "it's up to you, though I liked X book". Anyways, please check out the FAQ (and Meta if you want the deeper reasoning for our policies) and feel free to ask any other questions you might have that would be a better fit! – Matthew Read♦ Aug 1 '12 at 5:26
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@MatthewRead and Luke: How is this any different to music.stackexchange.com/questions/3739/…? I can't really see much difference, except in wording, yet that question is still open. If you have any suggestions for improving this question that would make it more valuable, I'd be happy to implement them. – naught101 Aug 1 '12 at 6:10
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@Luke and MatthewRead: I actually realised before I posted that there was a chance that this would get closed. But I'm also aware that music.SE has problems with getting enough questions. I'm wondering if that isn't partially because a lot of questions that could be useful, with a bit of tinkering, are getting closed, instead of improved? It certainly makes me feel less keen on trying again. It would be nice, at least, if non-mods were given a chance to comment on such questions before the mods shut them down. – naught101 Aug 1 '12 at 6:17

closed as off topic by Luke, Dr Mayhem♦, Matthew Read♦ Aug 1 '12 at 5:27

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