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What exercises do you use to warm up?
Having a consistent warm-up routine is one of the best ways to feel good every day, make progress, and sound your best. What does your routine consist of right now? Which exercises work best?…
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What are you thankful for?
EDIT: Sorry everyone, had the wrong description in here prior! Here's the new one... Here in the USA, we take some time off to celebrate Thanksgiving this week.…
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Release Review: Haydn Trumpet Concerto with Selina Ott
Dear trumpeters, What a joy it was to work with Selina Ott back in July in Germany. Her playing is beautiful, and her advice – priceless and applicable.…
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Release Review: How to Play High Notes with Chris Coletti
Dear trumpeters, We were very happy to release Chris Coletti's How to Play High Notes course last month, and even more excited to see it become one of our most viewed lessons on the site.…
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What’s the longest you’ve ever been without your trumpet?
For many of us, time away for the trumpet is torturous! Not to mention, it can be tough to put our chops back together when we return. Surely a break now and then is a good idea,…
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Release Review: Building Jazz Vocabulary with Ethan Chilton
Dear trumpeters, I was excited to release my newest jazz course a few weeks back, as it marks a new phase in the expansion of tonebase trumpet. We’d love to hear your thoughts on it!…
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What's the hardest piece you've ever played?
From any genre or style, what’s the most difficult piece you’ve attempted to play, whether successful or unsuccessful? What made it difficult? Bonus points if you have tips for overcoming those…
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What are your favorite jazz standards of all time?
From Charlie Parker to Clifford Brown, Warne Marsh to Wayne Shorter, there are an enormous number of gorgeous standards out there. What are your favorites to play, listen to,…
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We're making a Lead Trumpet course. Any questions for our guru?
Ryan DeWeese, top-call lead trumpet player in Los Angeles, will be producing a course on the technical and musical skills to cultivate to play exceptional lead trumpet.…
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We're bringing Charlie Porter on for a Q&A. Got any questions for him?
Legendary educator, improvisor, classical musician, and tonebase artist Charlie Porter is coming for a special 1-hour tonebase Q&A on September 23rd at 11 AM PST.…
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Show us your mouthpiece(s)!
Mouthpieces represent our direct connection between flesh and metal. They’re extremely important to getting the right sound for the musical situation, and no two hunks of metal are identical.…
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What would you like to see on tonebase Trumpet?
Are there any artists or topics that you feel would be perfect for tonebase – that we haven’t added yet?? What’s missing? Was there anything you were expecting or hoping to see that we didn’t think…
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What's your favorite orchestra excerpt?
From Mozart to Mahler and Strauss to Stravinsky… there’s a treasure trove of orchestral excerpts out there for the trumpet. What’s your favorite to play, or to hear?…
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Tell us your five favorite trumpet albums of all time – any style!
If you had to pick, and could pull from any style, what are the five records that really do it for you? Virtuosic, captivating playing… gorgeous, memorable compositions… maybe a real hip album cover……
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Why did you pick the trumpet?
Let’s kick things off. Why did you pick the trumpet? (Or… why did the trumpet pick you?)
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Tell us your arranging experience!
Whether it's for a funk horn section, a jazz combo, or a brass ensemble, trumpeters are always playing new arrangements – do you have any you'd want to share?…
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If you could meet any player from the past, who'd it be?
They say “don’t meet your heroes.” But if you had the opportunity to – who would you like to have a conversation with? A lesson with? Who do you think would be really cool (or perhaps a jerk?…
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Do you play any other instruments?
Do you have an affinity for the guitar? Or secret piano chops? Or perhaps it’s the bagpipes that do it for you. Many of you are probably hiding your super-cool instrument doubles from us 😉 If you…
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Describe the most moving concert you've ever attended.
Was it a symphony? A wind band? A small jazz group? Was it a famous name or a nobody? Tell us about that one moment you were listening… crying… overwhelmed by a performance (it’s ok to admit if you…
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What is your favorite etude book?
We’ve all probably spent our fair share of hours playing etudes. Is there a book – old or new – that stands out to you? It could be one of the old reliable books,…
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Show us your horn(s)!
What horn do you play on? Tell us where you bought it, for how much (if you’d like to share!), why you bought it, and how long you’ve had it. If you’d like, share a picture!…
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Who are your favorite trumpet players?
Hello everyone and wishing you a happy Monday! I'm sure that each of us has a few special players that make us feel pure joy... perhaps it was the first time you heard a sizzling high note,…
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What are the pieces that always lift your mood?
Is there a composition, song, melody, chord progression, orchestral excerpt, etude, polka tune, or any other piece of music that is guaranteed to lift your mood when you hear it or play it?…
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What music are you practicing right now?
Here at tonebase, we share knowledge but just about trumpet fundamentals, but also about the inner workings of repertoire… classical, jazz, pop, marching band, and everything in between.…
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What is the last tonebase video you watched?
Don’t think – what was the most recent video you watched on tonebase trumpet? It doesn’t have to be something you completed all the way through. What did you think of the material?…
