The following Etudes are a first step to getting used to performing on the piccolo trumpet. The warm-up exercises in this book are the exercises that I use daily for my preparation on the piccolo trumpet. As the word 'warm-up' indicates, they are to be used to get your muscles into shape in a fairly “comfortable” manner in order to allow you to move on to your practice or performance on the instrument for that day. This is why you will notice that the recommendations for dynamics never exceed th...