Trumpet Matters

Job hunters need to have in their portfolio five qualifications that will make the employers' selection process easy. Unfortunately th...

Pictured are Trumpet Professor Charles Saenz and pianist/accompanist extraordinaire Solungga Fang- Tzu Lui , both from THE Bowling Green ...

Welcome to new and returning CCM trumpet students! One might expect some stress-free social or any instrument-free event to ease the tran...

This is a great time to rent one of those enormous Rumpke dumpsters! Let's call it the Trumpke dumpster. Haul it right up to your pra...

Know what? Almost nobody in school plays loud enough! Good is nice, but good and loud is more impressive and memorable. Judicious and gen...

"Look at that runner! No way I'm ever going to catch up! I'm not even close. But hey, look how far ahead I am of the runner ...

Which best typifies your playing, a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey , or Darts ? Do you tend to stab blindly in the dark when you play,...

Every brass player knows instinctively all about Shotgun, Fireworks and Spitfire style air techniques. Those are what we are famous for. ...

Due to the summertime heat advisory, all CCM trumpet cases should look like this until further notice. No practicing permitted. Don't...

"Step right up. You're next. Take your seat, please fasten your seat belt. Here we go. Hold on!" You know what to expect....

"Stop or you'll blow your brains out, or worse yet, your chops!" Woodwind players can always buy more reeds, but brass player...

Keep this picture in mind as you practice this week. You do not want to be constantly seeing the maestro's shushing gesture or the pal...

Your audition is in two days! Ready or not, you're off to the airport. You leave home allowing plenty of extra time only to learn that...

Committee Comment: "That was the loudest and most electrifying trumpet-playing we have ever heard! It was never forced or out of con...

The Winner played EXTREMELY S O F T and BEAUTIFULLY

Plays with: RHYTHMIC FIRE & AMAZING BEAUTY

"What, me work?!" That's the mindset that tends to accompany these warm weather months. Oh to have a conservatory in Iceland...

Connecting practice to performance is the challenge. Knowing how to make very nice use of the precious time we have so as to yield great sho...

Seen the Doctor lately? Sounds like not! If your pulse is unstable, fluctuating, erratic, you are past due for a visit. Just as we don...

Whatever jolts you to double down on improvement, go there and go often! Spikes in your playing need to happen regularly. Life is depressi...