Here's the first article in our clinic series.
New ones will be added from time to time. Enjoy!


Four Fundamentals of Troubleshooting for Brass Players

This article is an attempt to explain in a bit more detail the importance of understanding these 4 fundamentals and how to observe and hopefully apply this understanding to both yourself and your students. I'm quite certain that you will get some amazing results from this information and it should help handle a lot of your "queries" as to why it appears so difficult to play brass instruments, particularly the trumpet, with greater ease.

1. Feeling of the Lips
2. Abdominal Support of Air
3. Aperture Control
4. Selection of Correct Mouthpiece
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