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Relaxation By : Bryan Goff Wait a minute, shouldn’t that be “One, Two, Ready, Play!”? One of the most common playing problems that have observed in my teaching is excessive tension, and the most prevalent tension problem us usually excessive embouchure tension on the first note. It is obvious that if we start out playing [...]

By : Bryan Goff I keep repeating the theme that in order to not neglect certain playing techniques, we must include these techniques in a specific slot in our regular daily practice schedule. I have previously mentioned techniques such as lip slurs and single tonguing. I feel that it is also important to ensure that [...]

By : Bryan Goff Scales, ugh! I’m certain that is how many of my students feel about playing their scales. However, probably nobody (no, not even those students) will deny that the mastery of scales is one of the most important building blocks in the fundamentals of almost all of the music which we play. [...]

“One, Two, Ready, Tense-up” By : Bryan Goff Wait a minute, shouldn’t that be “One, Two, Ready, Play!”? One of the most common playing problems that have observed in my teaching is excessive tension, and the most prevalent tension problem us usually excessive embouchure tension on the first note. It is obvious that if we [...]

By : Bryan Goff Here is an exercise, which is certainly not new, but perhaps deserves reconsideration. Although I usually incorporate long tones in my daily routine, I usually do so to build endurance and range, and I usually hold the notes at a steady mezzo dynamic level for about 5-6 seconds. I recently gave [...]

By : Bryan Goff Some trills are easy, some trills are more difficult, and some trills are nearly impossible to execute cleanly. In the following example the B-natural to C trill is very easy. The C to D trill is more difficult because the pitch must be focused, by the lip, at a pitch center [...]

By : Bryan Goff I strongly encourage anyone interested in the performance of trumpet music from the Baroque to seriously consider trying to somehow arrange to learn how to play the original instrument itself (a modern replica of the instrument, of course). The performance of Baroque repertoire blossomed with the evolution of high-quality piccolo trumpets [...]

By : Bryan Goff Lip trills differ from lip “shakes”, both in sound and in the technique of execution. When I speak of a shake, I am referring to that technique that is primarily used in jazz music, a slurred figure in the upper register similar to a trill but usually alternating between notes whose [...]

By : Bryan Goff In another one of my Trumpet Topics, Slow vs. Fast, I addressed the advantages of increased efficiency when you practice short fragments up to tempo, rather than starting slowly and gradually increasing the tempo. I would now like to offer the suggestion that tongued passages, both single-tongued and multiple-tongued passages, should [...]

By : Bryan Goff I am certain that most of us have practiced technical passages using the standard old technique of repeating a particularly tricky phrase over and over, setting the metronome at a tempo one-third of the ultimate tempo, then gradually moving the metronome speed up notch by notch until we played the passage [...]