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Tag: Pedagogy

Tongue On Lips (The Balanced Embouchure Way)

8th March 2016 Rich 2 Comments

This is a short post to explain the Tongue On Lips exercises from Jeff Smiley’s The Balanced Embouchure. This is only one…

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Posted in: Pedagogy, Technique Filed under: Balanced Embouchure, David Hickman, Jeff Smiley, Jerome Callet, Pedagogy, Technique

The Cycle of Pressure

27th February 2016 Rich Leave a comment

Here is a flow chart illustrating something that I refer to as The Cycle of Pressure. I have scribbled it…

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Posted in: Pedagogy, Technique Filed under: Breathing, Mouthpiece Pressure, Pedagogy, Technique, Tips

Methods and Mouthpieces – are you a hacker?

21st January 2015 Rich 1 Comment

Here I present to you what may be the two most loaded topics in trumpet playing and pedagogy. It is…

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Posted in: Practice and Performance, Technique Filed under: Embouchure, Instruments, Mouthpiece, Pedagogy, Practice, Practise, Quote, Technique, Trumpet

A quote about our practice

18th August 2014 Rich Leave a comment

A great quote from the writings of Herbert L. Clarke. It is amazing how much of what he says applies…

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Posted in: Practice and Performance, Quotes Filed under: Herbert L. Clarke, Musicians, Pedagogy, Practice, Practise, Quote

Understanding modes is all about perspective

21st March 2014 Rich Leave a comment

As a music theory teacher I rarely come across a pupil who understands modes. Usually they have been vaguely introduced…

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Posted in: Pedagogy Filed under: Modes, Music Theory, Pedagogy, Scales, Teaching

Major Scales – How I teach them and why I use this method

14th March 2014 Rich 3 Comments

At the age of twenty four I had been playing the cornet/trumpet for thirteen years. I had achieved my A-level…

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Posted in: Pedagogy Filed under: Download, Modes, Music Theory, pdf, Pedagogy, Scales, Teaching, Tonality

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