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…
Here I present to you what may be the two most loaded topics in trumpet playing and pedagogy. It is…
A great quote from the writings of Herbert L. Clarke. It is amazing how much of what he says applies…
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…