Okay, how about “The 5 things that I’ve found that actually work to help me play the trumpet better”? TL;DR? Maybe, but bear with me. These are 5 things that all the research, all the YouTubes, all the research papers seem to hint at, mention, but didn’t just say, “Do this, and your trumpet playing […]
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How To Play Trumpet Down the bunny trail. Hippity hoppity. The “fix trumpet embouchure” bunny trail. Or is it the “how to make a trumpet embouchure” bunny trail? Does it feel like I’m stuck here? Well, yea. I had such high hopes of a “comeback”. To be able to play the trumpet at least as
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Also known as “How to play trumpet at home – Episode 5” How To Play Trumpet Everyone is doing it and it sounds so easy. Learn a new language, like Latin. Learn to prepare gourmet meals with a can of beans and Spam. Rebuild your car’s engine. Learn to play an instrument. I took that
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How To Play Trumpet Well, here we are, end of the third week. Practiced everyday. Positives? By resting as much as the horn is on my face seems to let me practice longer. Sucky things? Found I have bigger problems than just relaxing my face. Something with my embouchure that is hard. Like never did
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How To Play Trumpet Comeback or Beginner Trumpet Player? 14 days in. Total practice time: 351 minutes. That’s about 25 minutes per day. I tried to break up my practice time into two sessions because I get tired so easily. But the afternoon sessions isn’t really worth talking about. That sounds like a total beginner player.
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How To Play Trumpet They say the first step in anything is the hardest. Like the old saying: “It’s not that you had the strength to finish the race. It’s that you had the courage to start”. Someone that said this that one time. Why learn the trumpet? I’m taking the first steps to learn how
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How To Play Trumpet Hi, my name is Mark. Welcome to my blog on “How to play trumpet”. Episode 1. Have you ever thought “if I ever had the time, I want to learn a new skill like playing an instrument?” Well, I’ve thought about this a lot during this “time” of staying at home.
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