• Arban – THE cornet method

  

  Arban’s famous cornet method, out of copyright and available to download as PDF files.

  October 25, 2017

  Resources

  Arban PDF, cornet, cornet teacher, Trumpet

• Practising practice

  

  This is a short summary of a presentation that I was privileged to be invited to give just over a month ago to some of my colleagues on the subject of managing practice. That is; the practice of practise. Apparently they found this collection of these ideas quite inspiring and motivational, so I have decided to share…

  April 12, 2015

  Resources

  brass playing, classical music, inspiration, jonny wilkinson, practice, practice management, practise, Trumpet, trumpet technique

• 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

• #Plogisms

  Last Friday I had the pleasure of spending time again in a class with Anthony Plog, trumpet lecturer and scholar. A true thinker of the trumpet world, and of music and life practice generally. He has his own very interesting blog at http://anthonyplog.com, so what I write here is an interpretation of his brief and…

  February 1, 2015

  Resources

  Anthony Plog, brass playing, career, motivation, 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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