Posts made by lukarino

I got to see him perform at a masterclass/trumpet day. Fantastic musician, he soloed in front of a big band and also played in a small combo that day. His EVI playing is something else. Seems like an extremely knowledgeable teacher too.

@Kehaulani Indeed! I would be playing on that Christmas program next year. It is probably most well known for its choirs, but the orchestras and bands tour around the world as well and are amazing. I am quite excited to go there!

Baylor University is one of the top trumpet programs, Wiff Rudd is the teacher there, along with Mark Schubert.

And I am going to St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN next year, which may not be as well known as these. However, it is a very good school with some of the best school ensembles out there, and Dr. Hodel (the trumpet professor) is a fantastic teacher and player. My former teacher Micah Wilkinson went there, and he is the new principal trumpet of the Pittsburgh symphony. A couple other St. Olaf grads have gone onto great things as well.

@Three-Sevens @GeorgeB

The book is the Allen Vizzuti Trumpet Method, Book 1 Technical Studies. The tonguing exercises in this book (single, double, triple) are great. They are a little more accessible than the arban exercises IMO as well (the ranges were a little more comfortable for me when my range was developing). There’s a triple tongue exercise (no. 37) specifically that is very good as well.

As far as the warmdown, I am not exactly sure what book it comes from but it’s from Vizzuti. It is a killer warmdown. If you PM me I can send you a copy, I got mine from a friend.

Allen Vizzuti has many great single tonguing exercises in his first book of technical studies, and he also has a great warm down routine somewhere that has (oddly enough) increased my single tongue speed the most. This is because I set the metronome at a speed higher than I could do it before, and by forcing myself to do it, it got better. For double tonguing work on the k tongue by itself.

For Bach's birthday today:

This is my favorite Brandy 2 performance, with the most amazing sound and musicality. Friedrich does the third movement twice... after playing the first movement as well (not in this video). He takes the last note up the second time!

Resting as much as you play (and in short sections), as cliche as it sounds, is quite effective for making your practice sessions last longer and, more importantly, for being more productive. This is especially crucial for me during the warmup. (I do very soft expanding intervals with legato tonguing, which works wonders for efficiency and sound but can be a little tiring.) However, longer practice sessions are better for building overall endurance. Maybe try alternating between the two every other day or so, and finding a good balance.

Since I don’t think the search function within the way back machine works on TM, you can search for a thread by putting “(insert query) site:trumpetmaster.com” into google, and then paste the link you find in google into the way back machine: https://archive.org/web/