One or More, Big or Small, Should do it? A discussion by Richard Colquhoun about the differing attitudes towards choices…
In recent months I have been considering writing a few books to aid my students, and anybody in the brass-playing…
One of the first posts on Trumpet Planet was an explanation of how I teach people to play major scales. It…
There are a number of discussions you can find in forums on the web and blogs of players who religiously…
This is a short post to explain the Tongue On Lips exercises from Jeff Smiley’s The Balanced Embouchure. This is only one…
Here is a flow chart illustrating something that I refer to as The Cycle of Pressure. I have scribbled it…
As a music theory teacher I rarely come across a pupil who understands modes. Usually they have been vaguely introduced…
At the age of twenty four I had been playing the cornet/trumpet for thirteen years. I had achieved my A-level…