Trumpet Matters

Three things ought to be your focus as you prepare for a performance.  Your audience wants to hear a message , a line , and a pulse . Be ...

Imagine a fine restaurant that had no menus.  There would simply be no balanced or nutritious suggestions ever offered. You just pull up a ...

The word for today is fluster-proof !  It is that skill or temperament that marks you as incapable of being flustered.  Look at you!  No ...

"Uh, thank you.  Next." We all know the pain of hearing those words.  For every promising day on the horn, there are seemingly ...

The problem with your practice is that there are simply not enough ears in the room.  Only two is not working out so well for you, is it. ...

Is playing like a pig ever acceptable?  Certainly you've been challenged to approach the music as aggressively as a hungry dog with a ...

Somber, Sacred, and Joyous Christmas Brass Music from the Cincinnati Pops 1989. Promoting not ourselves here, but the One who has given ...

A Merry Christmas Season to everyone from the Cincinnati Pops Brass, recorded in 1989. Listen:

I was walking on air, ready to conquer the world with not a single worry about failure or competitors!  It was one of those precious few...

You dutifully open your Arban Complete Conservatory Method to pages 142 through 151 to begin work on your lesson assignment.  Anticipa...

It was 1970 something, and our yearly tour to NY!  That meant that at the first free moment I was off to Giardinelli's Band Instrument...

Ballerina Dance and Waltz from Stravinsky's Petroushka Listen Solos at 2:50 through 5:45 Snare Drum: Bill Platt

Young Person's Guide, Variation K - Trumpets Listen    Snare Drum: Bill Platt 

Caution: You are approaching orange barrels.  Slow down! Following your macho instincts instead of your intellect, you disregard the hig...

You never guessed that on that magical day when you fell in love with music and chose the trumpet to be your lawful wedded spouse, that th...

So, how have your chops been doing?  "Well, they're a little beat up lately. I've had a ton of stuff to deal with."   ...

ME!!! Getting ready for BACH at CCM!!! Tromba I Tromba II Tromba III Hi, guys!  B Minor Mass is fast approaching. Another...

One goofy picture can make more of a lasting impression than a bunch of stern lectures.  O.K. meet Professor Clean, the friendly note-scru...

Why do we have knuckles?  Multiple choice: for threatening people? for punching obnoxious colleagues? for poking your Charlier book ri...

"Alright, what seems to be the problem now?"  "Doc, it's happened again, another nasty case of sore and unresponsive ch...