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Does a better trumpet make you play trumpet better?

Does a better trumpet make you play trumpet better?

This is a topic that I’ve found myself discussing with people a few times recently. I think that instinctively people already know the answer but there is a lot of confusion out there over the definition of “better”, which is (of course) subjective. There is such a thing as a better trumpet for playing one style of music or another, but this post is more about better and worse quality…

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TCE and Superchops, same or different?

TCE and Superchops, same or different?

I was recently involved in a discussion on Facebook with a trumpeter called Chuck Par-Due. Chuck knew Harry James when he was younger and received some help and direction from this great master of our instrument. About that he said the following:

When I was 16 years old, Harry James taught me the embouchure I still use almost 50 years later. Harry very clearly taught me that the bottom lip is the…

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Is there actually a trumpet method by Jerome Callet?

Is there actually a trumpet method by Jerome Callet?

Jerome Callet was a truly unique figure in the world of brass pedagogy. He was a constant innovator in everything that he did; instrument design, mouthpiece design, embouchure methods, trumpet teaching. I have spent most of the last decade digging around online, chatting with his ex-pupils, travelling to Europe for lessons and conferences and studying his books and videos. I think it’s fair to…

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Trumpet Guru Conspiracies Part 1: The Failing Student

Trumpet Guru Conspiracies Part 1: The Failing Student

Intro

This is the first of a short series of articles that are written partly tongue-in-cheek but also completely based in fact. It has been quite some years since I began devoting time to studying the world of trumpet pedagogy. My research consists of a few things: Reading trumpet history and method books, reading doctorate research (dissertations etc.), reading online forums and trumpet…

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Two exercises from Trumpet Yoga

Trumpet Yoga was one of Jerome Callet’s first books, the first edition was released in 1971. Outlined in the book is how one can develop their embouchure by holding the top lip in an unfurled position, which you discover through the use of double pedal note exercises using an Einsetzen-type embouchure. The second edition was published in 1986, strangely only a year before Superchops, which seemed…

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Introducing my first ebook!

Regular followers of my blog will be aware that over the last few years it has really changed from its roots as a simple means for me to share idle thoughts and clips of recording experiments into a way for me to explain my somewhat alternative view on trumpet playing techniques and equipment. My most popular posts to date are the ones about Vincent Bach’s mouthpieces, the difference between trum…

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Trumpet Mouthpieces: One or More, Big or Small, Should do it?

Trumpet Mouthpieces: One or More, Big or Small, Should do it?

One or More, Big or Small, Should do it? A discussion by Richard Colquhoun about the differing attitudes towards choices of trumpet mouthpieces for performance and their use in pedagogy. Introduction

In April 2016 I travelled to Belgium to meet with Bahb Civiletti. Bahb is one of the world’s pre-eminent baroque trumpet players and his The Art Of The High Baroquealbum features some of the only…

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Get Out Of That Box!

Get Out Of That Box!

An important part of working towards being the best technician you can on your instrument is playing exercises that stretch your abilities. A number of famous brass pedagogues such as Herbert Clarke, James Stamp, Vincent Chicowitz, Pierre Thibaud, Claude Gordon, Carmine Caruso, have published books that one could work through, setting and achieving goals, and seeing oneself grow as a player. What…

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