Each year my friends receive a special birthday greeting from me on Facebook, featuring one of my over-the-top renditions of Happy Birthday as seen in my Happy Birthday Trumpet Playlist. This year I’ve created a new over-the-top version with which to honor my friends on their special day, arranging and recording a short version of … Continue reading Happy Birthday – My Stevie Wonder Cover for 7 Trumpets

A well-known classic, I thought I would have no trouble finding a chart for this online. But what I discovered was that all the arrangements I found had deviated from Stevie Wonder’s classic and morphed into something else. That’s well and good if you’ve got a 17-piece big band and you want to take the … Continue reading Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin’)

Resources: Stevie Wonder – Do I Do Bandhub collab video. Stevie Wonder – Do I Do trumpet chart. Transcribed by me and free for you to use. What do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know. Be sure to check out my other Stevie Wonder transcriptions!

An all-time favorite, but the key is always a shocker for B♭ instruments. Charts that I have seen in the past contained errors or inaccuracies, but besides that, the transposition from B major concert was always to C# major (7 sharps for trumpet). Why??? It hurts our heads to be thinking about B#s and E#s! … Continue reading Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke

I already had charts for this brilliant song but they were not true to Stevie’s original arrangement, so I corrected them. These ones are pretty authentic! Resources: Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours – trumpet & tenor sax chart. Transcribed by me and free for you to use. What do you think? Please leave … Continue reading Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours

This one started as a MIDI file. I extracted the trumpet and sax lines, and made it human-readable and adapted it for use. I used this source over transcribing by ear because: It was quick / I was lazy; and The MIDI version quoted lines from Stevie Wonder’s Superstition, which I thought was really cool and … Continue reading Peter Gabriel – Sledge Hammer