• Self-promotion vs janteloven

  It’s been over two years since I posted on this blog, and so an overhaul of this online professional portfolio has been somewhat overdue. There’s been a few tweaks to represent current activities timed with a recent relocation to Bergen. Notably, a new professional focus on cornet, and graphic design services being offered. It’s been…

  October 9, 2017

  Musings

  janteloven, Music, Norway, professional music, scandinavian culture, self promotion

• How to train your 2nd cornets

  As a busy summer of marching looms again, a fresh set of marches have found their way into the repertoire. This one, ‘Great Big David’, has a predictably Welsh theme to it, and features the tune ‘David of the White Rock’ in the trio section. Tidy. Nothing remarkable so far. It’s a march. It’s Welsh. Woop de doo. So…

  March 24, 2015

  Musings

  Adolf Lotter, band humour, cornet, marches, military band, music trivia, welsh guards

• The diaphragm delusion

  “Use your diaphragm!” …said a brass or vocal teacher, somewhere, always. The response from the student; nearly always puzzled, if not nodding quietly to mask confusion and/or risk of suggested ignorance. This well used phrase may be yielding results from some students. Yet, I don’t know of anyone that I have met who can knowingly…

  March 6, 2015

  Musings, Resources

  brass playing, breathing, diaphragm, Music, mythbuster, Trumpet, trumpet technique, vocal technique

• Pacho Flores – ‘Cantar’

  

  Sometimes there is talent in the world that doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. Fortunately, in the age of blogging and social media, the power to elevate that talent now lies with us and to a lesser extent with the corporations who will continue to flex their financial muscles to force exposure and airplay.…

  January 12, 2015

  Musings

  baroque, cantar, classical music, pacho flores, review, Trumpet

• The British Cornet Sound

  

  Having been working on core sound recently with a number of students, I have been trying to reference where my idea of sound has been developed from. These examples are my ideals and inspiration for the perfect modern British cornet sound. These players have been some of my personal heroes from day one, and some of the great talents…

  December 23, 2014

  Musings, Resources

  Brass Band, cornet

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