Category Archives: Low Brass Resources

Some Thoughts for Low Brass Players Who Want to Major in Music…or Who Just Want to Get Better!

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Micah Everett

A high school band director in my state reached out to me recently and asked if I would contribute to a project compiling advice from university faculty members on what prospective music majors on their instruments should know and be … Continue reading →

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Complete Performance Recordings: Doubling Recital at the University of South Carolina

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Micah Everett

This past Tuesday a long-planned collaboration with Dr. Michael Wilkinson, trombone professor at the University of South Carolina, finally came into existence—at least, outside of our imaginations. Dr. Wilkinson and I were assigned as roommates while attending the Alessi Seminar … Continue reading →

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“Gadgets and Gizmos:” Facebook Groups for Low Brass Players

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Micah Everett

Today’s installment of my occasional “Gadgets and Gizmos” series highlights not a physical piece of technology or other equipment, but rather a fairly recent forum for the development and exchange of ideas with regard to pedagogy, equipment, repertoire, and other … Continue reading →

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You Kids Just Don’t LISTEN!!!

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Micah Everett

Even though this is my seventeenth year teaching at the university level in some capacity (having begun as a wide-eyed twenty-two-year-old graduate assistant), in my mind I still identify as the “young professor.” That self-identity is crumbling, though, and at … Continue reading →

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Bass Trombone as the Primary Instrument: A Report

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Micah Everett

For basically the entire year from May 2016 to May 2017 I moved from my usual practice of treating the large tenor trombone as my primary instrument to placing the bass trombone in that role. While for the entirety of … Continue reading →

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