Well, I’m pleased to say I’m making really great progress with my trumpet playing. I’m very surprised. I should have been recording when I first started. Switching to a larger mouthpiece really helped. On smaller mouthpieces, I was having trouble getting a nice clear sound and I was having trouble nailing the notes on the [...]

Recently, I decided to begin playing the trumpet, many years after having given up playing the tuba. In doing so, I needed to develop a new embouchure now that I’m playing a new instrument. I started practicing my buzzing with and without a mouthpiece and was having quite a hard time getting my lips to [...]

All I can say is ….Wow! I have been frustrated all this time for nothing. *Smile* I’ve been struggling with getting a nice clean tone and truly felt like giving up yesterday. Today I was focusing my attention on learning all the scales and getting more familiar with the fingerings for Trumpet when I [...]

Since I’ve started playing the trumpet, I, of course, have been spending some time learning all about the instrument as well as trying to adapt what I’ve learned while playing other instruments to trumpet playing. The one thing I’m noticing no matter where I go for trumpet instruction is that all the sources fail to [...]

The first instrument I ever played was a Clarinet when I joined the school band in 7th grade. I continued to play the Clarinet until the middle of 8th grade when I switched to playing the Bassoon (the horror). Although I love the sound of a Bassoon in some pieces, I did not like playing [...]