Trumpet Matters

Audition day has arrived!  After having thoroughly prepared your solo and excerpts, you are finally out the door and on your way.  Fing...

Your teachers need not confiscate any more of your scarce stash of cash. Do you know that your best instructors work every day for free? Th...

There's nothing like a clear precise cutting edge! Surgeons and butchers do it. Why not trumpeters? Great entrances are everything. ...

Pops Orchestra - Trumpet 1 book is chock-full of romantic original songs you can play for your Valentine. Turn down the stage lights, grab...

MIDNIGHT RHYTHM by Leonid Afremov This could be your deal-breaker at the next audition! Our hidden microphone reveals the committee's ...

Your audition doesn't just take place when you play it. It was happening every day for months in the practice room whether you knew it ...

Rushing is forbidden, but speeding is encouraged. Rushing disqualifies, but being able to play the trumpet at high speeds is a skill worth ...

A TIMELESS ONE-SENTENCE LESSON: "Do not attempt to play the following line until the preceding line sounds pure and free ." ...

A few sample etudes from Piccolo Trumpet Studies book:

Piccolo Trumpet Studies was written to provide easy-to-moderately difficult practice material for piccolo trumpet players of all levels. Wh...

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....