Trumpet Videos:

Trumpet Performance Vids:

• Alison Balsom Italian Concertos.  Ya ya… I know the plural of concerto is concerti.
• Wynton Marsalis Plays and improvises on the tune Happy Birthday.
• James Morrison Plays Zog’s Jog from the album Snappy Too. A clever video and awesome playing! Golly James, save some talent for the rest of us!!
• Tom Harrell Be-boppin’ with the Phil Woods Quintet!
• Tom Harrell Journey To The Stars. Beautiful!
• Tine Thing Helseth Fanfare, for the 2007 Nobel Peace Concert.
• Tine Thing Helseth Plays the Marcello Concerto in C minor, Mvmt. 3, Allegro, on a piccolo trumpet.
• Rafael Mendez Dazzling technique on display. The first half he plays Flight of The Bumble Bee. On the second half he demonstrates  amazing breath control on The Mexican Hat Dance.
• Harry James Plays Flight of The Bumblebee.
• Adam Rapa Plays the U.S. National anthem. Man how nervous would you be? Notice… NO microphone!
• Andy Gravish & Joe Gransden Shredding on the standard tune Cherokee. Total trumpet geek stuff!
• Wynton Marsalis Plays Portrait of Louis Armstrong
• Bobby Shew Plays the Shewhorn
• Mnozil Brass Their version of the early 1970’s bubble gum hit Lonely Boy. Funny stuff & great playing. Here’s a YouTube link to the original for those of you too young to remember it!

Trumpet Maintenance:

• The CORRECT Way to Oil Your Trumpet Valves Required Viewing for all my students!!
• Grease Your Slides!
• How to Keep Your Valves Working Great

Trumpet Tips & Instruction Vids:

• Jens Lindemann Thoughts on Trumpet Tone There is a reason this is at the top of this section!
• Jazz Improv Private Lesson Jazz Improv insights by Jeff Stout, one of my trumpet teachers when I was at Berklee College of Music, Boston.
• Quick Advice from Boston trumpeter Trent Austin Trent Austin is a killer jazz trumpeter. I like to watch his YouTube channel just to check out his playing!
• Record Yourself! Here’s a great discussion that every trumpet student should incorporate into their practice routine.
• Advice on range development by trumpeter Jon Ruff
• Rashawn Ross and Adam Rappa Talking Range
• Coming back to the horn after some time off Vacation chops? We talk about this in our lessons. Here is Jon Ruff’s take on  You don’t necessarily have to do the exact routines used in the vid! Use some similar routines that we are working on. Just use his concepts and ideas… very similar to my thoughts!
• Thoughts on how to work on etudes or difficult passages I have talked about this with many of my students. Here’s an excellent discussion and demonstration by trumpeter Jon Ruff.
• Advice about doing auditions Yet another Jon Ruff vid about how to manage an audition.

For Trumpet Geeks Only:

• Nick Drozdoff: Shattering Glass With the Sound of a Trumpet ?!
• Nick Drozdoff: Sound Waves and Trumpets
• Jason Harelson Lecture: Deconstructing The Trumpet Great info, but long, and for geeks only!
• Jason Harrelson: Does Plating Change Sound?
• Jason Harrelson: The Heavy Horn Myth

General Music Vids:

• Birds Create Music! I love this. Very Creative.
• Visual Representation of how a Bach Canon Works

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