I have spent a lot of time thinking about the concepts that I teach in my studio. These ideas owe their origins to the incredible teachers under whom I have been privileged to study and a couple of decades of private and studio teaching. My primary mentor, Charles Schlueter has been talking about his “book” since I met him in 1987. With Charlie ever as my guide, now knowing I will probably never get around to writing MY book, I have begun to write these ideas down to share. My “Practice Space” articles have been published by Vandoren and now appear as a recurring column in the Brass Herald. To see the most up to date articles, see the blogspot page here:

http://americantrumpeter.blogspot.com/ 

I will occasionally organize the educational articles on this page for easier reference.

Practice Space

• Physical Space August 18, 2011 
• Mental Space September 19, 2011
• The Warm Up January 5, 2012
• To Err is Human February 1, 2012
• Archives “How do you judge your progress?” February 10, 2012
• Key Ingredients – September 19, 2012
• The Practice Routine – March 5, 2013 

Other  Articles

• Teaching Kids or “Why it is OK if your students don’t practice.” September 20, 2013 
• Just Do It – November 14, 2014 
• “Perfection” as a barrier to true music making – revised November 22, 2014