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Category Archives: Low Brass Resources
Complete Performance Recordings: Doubling Recital at the University of South Carolina
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
Posted in Alessi Seminar, Alto Trombone, Bass Trombone, Benedetto Marcello, Books, Cimbasso, Contrabass Trombone, Dmitri Shostakovich, Doubling, Douglas Yeo, Euphonium, Fernando Deddos, Georg Philipp Telemann, Higher Education, Leonard Bernstein, Low Brass Resources, Micah Everett, Michael Davis, Michael Wilkinson, Music, Performance Videos, Performances, Scott Slutter, Steven Verhelst, Teaching Low Brass, Tenor Trombone, The Low Brass Player's Guide to Doubling, Trombone, Tuba
“Gadgets and Gizmos:” Facebook Groups for Low Brass Players
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
You Kids Just Don’t LISTEN!!!
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
Choosing a Contrabass Tuba: BB-flat or CC?
In the past few months I have had several students at both the college and high school levels ask me for guidance regarding purchasing their first tubas. Given the state of the national economy generally and Mississippi’s perennial status as … Continue reading
Posted in Low Brass Resources, Music, Music Education, Pedagogy, Piston Valves, Rotary Valves, Teaching Low Brass, Tuba
The Utility of Clef Studies for Future Band Directors
The necessity of learning to read proficiently in tenor and alto clefs is a bane to many trombone players at the college and university level. In most countries the sheet music used for initial trombone instruction and performance is written … Continue reading