Category Archives: Ergonomics

Glide!

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Micah Everett

Now that I am just a little bit into my third decade of college low brass teaching, I have long since discovered that my uses of pop culture references to illustrate concepts often fall flat. While at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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The Brass Player as Singer

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Micah Everett

Emory Remington (1891-1971) was one of the twentieth century’s foremost trombone pedagogues. Over the course of several decades as trombone professor at the Eastman School of Music, he built a program that produced dozens of orchestral trombonists, performers in other … Continue reading →

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Book Suggestion: Healing Back Pain

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Micah Everett

Lots of folks that know me—and even some that “know” me only through reading my writings here and elsewhere—know that I have suffered from chronic back and neck pain for over ten years. It began with problems with my neck … Continue reading →

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Three Areas of Tension that Brass Players Miss

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Micah Everett

Brass instruments are amazingly simple devices. In their simplest form, these “lip-reed aerophones” as Anthony Baines called them are just tubes into one end of which players vibrate their lips to generate musical tones. The overtone series native to a … Continue reading →

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Missed Partials are “Real” Missed Notes

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Micah Everett

Brass players have a peculiar challenge that many other instrumentalists do not share in that in that brass instruments have multiple notes available for each fingering or slide position. This means that the player must not only depress the correct … Continue reading →

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