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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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Improving My Warmup
I would like a livestream or other video to accompany the ultimate trumpet warmup pdf including demonstrations.
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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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30Sep
Improvising over Rhythm Changes with Ethan Chilton
Mon Sep 30 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/improvising-over-rhythm-changes-chilton4 going -
2Sep
Navigating Hearing Loss for Musicians
Mon Sep 2 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-live-navigating-hearing-loss-noah-dugan2 going -
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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26Sep
Effective Practicing
Thu Sep 26 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/dbs-effective-practicing3 going -
"Sauna" strategy for practice
You know the sauna thing, where you sweat in the heat for a while, then take a cold plunge, then head back into the heat? A delicious contrast. These days I do trumpet technical practice for about…
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29Aug
How to Improvise with John Raymond
Thu Aug 29 2024 at 9 AM - 10 AM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-live-improvising-with-john-raymond5 going -
24Jun
Building Better Intonation with Ethan Chilton
Mon Jun 24 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-building-better-intonation-chilton3 going -
Group 2
Description Join Chris Gekker, virtuoso soloist and professor of trumpet at the University of Maryland School of Music, for a three-week intensive class designed to improve your articulation.…
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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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Group 1
Description Join Chris Gekker, virtuoso soloist and professor of trumpet at the University of Maryland School of Music, for a three-week intensive class designed to improve your articulation.…
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SIGN-UP: Developing a Lip Trill: The Ultimate Guide
Description In this Three-Week Intensive, tonebase trumpet lead Ethan Chilton provides the ultimate blueprint to playing a lip trill. Building up from the foundational movements required of the…
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What are the Two Week Intensives?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you sat down and concentrated on one specific aspect of your playing? Dedicated two weeks to one thing? Improving your sound quality,…
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17Jul
Play Like a Pro with Chris Coletti
Wed Jul 17 2024 at 6 PM - 7 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-play-like-a-pro-chris-coletti-live2 going -
19Aug
Daily Movements to Enhance Your Practice with Kayla Solomon
Mon Aug 19 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-live-injury-prevention-kayla-solomon2 going -
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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5Aug
The Secret to a Beautiful Sound with Brandon Ridenour
Mon Aug 5 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-beautiful-sound-ridenour-live5 going -
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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Gliss, Shakes & Playing pop tunes
I’d like to ask how to play gliss & shakes well? I started playing in a big band and noticed the charts often have things like upward gliss into notes or downward gliss after note, and shakes too.…
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29Jul
Basics of Bebop Vocabulary with Ethan Chilton
Mon Jul 29 2024 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/trumpet/live/player/tpt-bebop-vocabulary-chilton-live4 going -
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!…
