Yesterday I visited Hub van Laar to say hello and see what’s new in his shop. I had a concert in Maastricht with the Jazzorchestra of…
Yesterday I was shooting some pictures at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. They have a week full of masterclasses this week, so enough subjects to photograph. Here a…
Another 4 Studies composed by Georg Kopprasch in various keys.
Georg Kopprasch (c. 1800 – c. 1850) was a German composer and horn player primarily known for his second set of sixty horn studies (op. 6), currently used…
11 Staccato Studies (transposed in 9 keys) by Clemente Salviani, originally written for oboe (“Studi per Oboe Vol. IV”), but I adapted them for trumpet. N.B.…
I uploaded 3 solo transcriptions played by Clifford Brown to YouTube. Play along or just listen and read along.
Here are 15 single tonguing exercises I wrote for practicing single tonguing. I think it’s best to practice them with a metronome in a comfortable…
Here an updated transcription of “Confirmation” as played by the great Clifford Brown.
I found some interesting exercises in the Grand Method by Louis A. Saint-Jacome and transposed them in 3 keys.
Yesterday I had a brief (unexpected) encounter with this magnificent bird. This White-tailed Eagle is probably a few years old because it didn’t have a white…
Brandon Ritenour has made some great recordings and posted them on Youtube, here he plays a great arrangement of Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen…
“The mind is the creator of concepts and attitudes that produce the physical activity necessary for proper trumpet playing. Wrong concepts can also make playing…