" As a fan of bossa-novas from Antonio Carlos Jobim (with complex and moving harmonies), I have created my samba jazz in order to motivate students to work on typical rhythms of this musical style  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 5 years onwards

A piece for instrumentalists with 6 years of musical experience.

" As the title suggests, this piece focuses primarily on the octave leaps and chromatism. The arpeggio sequences serve as a leitmotif throughout the piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for students from 7 years of instrument practice

" Bright and colorful composition, with melodic lines based on a set of syncopes and provided with a cadence. It is intended for interpreters with technical and musical levels already confirmed. " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for students from 7 years of instrument practice

" A rythmic composition in which the cells "quaver / two semiquaver" and " two semiquaver / quaver " are like a leitmotiv until the end of the Piece. The numerous triplets are a wink of "Rhapsody in Blues" from George Gershwin. My goal was to facilitate the listening, the exchange and the mimicry betwenn the two associated players: no tandem ("Temps d'M") without that! " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 6 years onwards

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing violin for 4 years onwards - Click on title for more details

" Easy variations on a famous popular theme. For an auditon or exam on folk songs, and with a piano accompaniement adapted to the young musicians " - Pascal PROUST
A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet or Cornet for 4 years onwards

" Melodic composition targeted to "young" students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 1 year onwards

" A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 2 years onwards

" This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers! " - Alain LOPEZ

" Blues with simple rhythmic cells and small ascending and descending chromatic movements. This piece will allow you to familiarize yourself with 'swing', supported by the piano accompaniment, imitating the horse's trot. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 2 years onwards

" Latin music divided into three parts of 32 mes. each: the first is for students with 1-2 years of experience (only long values and small chromatisms are used), the second is for those who have 2 or 3 (add dotted quarter / eighth notes and intervals of fourths), the third is for those at the end of the first cycle (flow from eighth in addition). This piece can "follow" the students for three years and / or allow 3 students with different levels to play together. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet from between 1 and 4 years

" How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet from 3 years onwards

" This composition was created for young musicians (mostly teenagers), and will be played as a pop song. Indeed, its texture (silky and polished) is related to the use of triplets and harmonic series built on the principle of 'verse / chorus'. Its tempo (close to the human body beat) and duration (3 minutes) will make it the hit of the summer! " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 4 years onwards

" AABA form of Latin music which gives meaning to the work of opposed nuances. On the pedagogical side, some unusual rhythms at this level are proposed. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 4 years onwards

" The purpose of this composition is to familiarize yourself with the unusual 5/4 metric, often associated to the famous jazz standard by Paul Desmond, Take Five. Rhythms and articulation are varied but without major difficulty. This piece is dedicated to the saxophonist "Michel Itier". " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trompette for 5 years onwards

" Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 6 years onwards

" During the short ternary intro, the two themes are depicted and then immediatly developped in binary with a mix of Jazz and Jazz Rock styles. The "Twinning" is exploited to make the most of it: in the title, the metric, the major tone and its relative minor, the themes, the chords, the characters attribute and the repeated notes in the melody. Listen to it !  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing tenor saxophone for 4 years onwards

" The artistic skills and sensitivity of the musician are highlighted here, in order to recreate, thanks to varied metronomic movements, rhythms and nuances, ten atmospheres described throughout the Piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

An original Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Trumpet for 6 years onwards

" The chassé-croisé of quarter notes and eight notes triplets together with Piano incite to dance and remind us of cabarets' ambiance of the 1920s. This piece, coupled with a faster one is an ideal combination to propose for end of first cycle exam. " - Alain LOPEZ

" The title of this Piece is a pun on Cubans rhythms. The opposition between the tone and used homonymous tone, as well as the rhythmic formula chosen on theme "B" are a typical feature of South America music. Concerning the melody, it is a stylistics composition on quarter note triplets! " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing trumpet for 3 years onwards.

" As the light whose reflection in the water is sometimes broken by the waves, I used ascending and descending movement in the melody. The pervasive use of syncopation also enabled me to exacerbate the impact felt by the ebb and flow.  " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing trumpet for 5 years onwards.

" What else can be better than a Samba to tackle the Syncopation with fun! In the second part, the player will have to articulate the syncopation to become a credible Samba player! one could also add the sounds of a "reco-reco" or a "pandeiro" (small Brasilian drums) to make this Samba even more captivating! " - Alain LOPEZ