a 52-week course with step-by-step instructions on how to practice Gordon's original routines alongside parts of Clarke's Technical Studies and Characteristic Studies, Lip Flexibility on the Trumpet by Walter M. Smith, Saint-Jacome's Grand Method for Trumpet or Cornet, Advanced Lip Flexibilities by Charles Colin, and the Arban method. Gordon also published Daily Trumpet Routines in 1971, Physical Approach to Elementary Brass Playing in 1977, Tongue Level Exercises in 1981, Thirty Velocity Studies also in 1981. All of the previously mentioned books with the exception of Daily Trumpet Routines have editions for bass-clef brass instruments. Gordon wrote his final book, Brass Playing is No Harder than Deep Breathing, for publication in 1987. It consolidates much of his teaching regarding tone generation in brass instruments as prose with minimal use of musical notation. Gordon also worked with Carl Fischer as an annotator for multiple editions of the Arban method, editor for Clarke's Technical Studies for Bass Clef Instruments, and revising editor for Saint-Jacome's Grand Method for Trumpet or Cornet. Personal Papers The Claude Gordon Personal Papers and Music Instrument Collection—including music, correspondence with Herbert L. Clarke and other notable trumpeters, educational materials, performance contracts, publicity materials and memorabilia—is housed at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. References External links Hit it Hard & Wish it Well ebook by Jeff Purtle, published 2016 in the iBooks Store Claude Gordon: Master Teacher by Jeff Purtle, published October 2008 in The Brass Herald Claude Gordon Practice Routines by Jeff Purtle, published December 2008 in The Brass Herald Claude Gordon and Herbert L. Clarke and Their Teaching by Jeff Purtle, published February 2009 in The Brass Herald Trumpet Playing and Brass Playing Articles by Claude Gordon student Jeff Purtle Claude Gordon Memorial Brass Conference and Trumpet Symposium by Jeff Purtle O.J.'s Trumpet Page The Development of the Benge Claude Gordon Model Trumpet The Trumpet Gearhead: Have we adequately mourned the fate of Benge? Claude Gordon Lecture and Brass Camp Recordings Church Brass website Check out "John's Blog" to read on the travails of a trumpeters studying Gordon's "Systematic Approach" Finding Aid for Claude Gordon Personal Papers and Music Instrument Collection, 1888-1992 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music How I Became a Student of Claude Gordon by Claude Gordon student John Mohan Claude Gordon's Method A message to TPIN written by Claude Gordon student John