Malcolm McNab, hollywood trumpet playing legend, was recently interviewed by Jan Glaesel – a Danish trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director on Danish National TV.

In this clip, Malcolm McNab speaks about being prepared:

Malcolm’s recordings on Amazon

Malcolm’s website

Jan’s website

Why Use A Metronome?
Using a metronome to keep the beat while you practice can benefit your playing in many ways. The most important reason is that its always right. Musicians, even the best musicians, playing alone or in ensembles, vary in tempo while they play.

While its often stylistcially acceptable in performance, most practice should be done in strict time. It ensures equal ability in multiple topics all over the horn. This article outlines some things you can do with a metronome while practicing to make you a better musician.

Practice at a Tempo Out of your Comfort Zone
Good listening skills are something musicians strive for their whole careers. Adapting to others’ tempo is an important part of ear training. Playing faster or slower than you normally do will teach you to listen and adapt to what others are doing. In this case, it’s a machine you are adapting to, but these skills translate well to ensemble playing, and especially following section leaders.

Set the Metronome to NOT Play on Every Beat
Get bored quickly with metronome practice? This is an easy way to mix things up, and test that you are maintaing your tempo without having to rely on a machine to keep the beat.

Jazz musicians, try to practice with the beat on 2 and 4, which is where the hi-hats would be in a swing beat. Do this for your scales and etudes, not just when practicing a tune. Classical musicians can try the metronome only on beat 1. Practice the same topic over and over with the metronome on random beat settings to keep you on your toes.

Use the Metronome to Help you Gain Speed
Brass musicians can especially benefit from metronome use when doing tonguing and lip slurring excercises. Try to go through your normal etude books, one excercise or page at a time, gradually increasing the tempo. It takes some serious practice time, but the result is well worth the effort. I write the tempo and date directly in the book to keep track of them. Tech savvy musicians can keep a spreadsheet of the excercise and tempo as they go along.

Try A Different Metronome
Lastly, find a metronome that works well for you. There are countless free apps for cell phones, computers, and other devices that give you great features and a variety of sounds to choose. There are also many sites online that have free metronomes or drum loops at any tempo.

by Kyle M. Bagley

Malcolm McNab, hollywood trumpet playing legend, was recently interviewed by Jan Glaesel – a Danish trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director on Danish National TV.

In this clip, Malcolm McNab speaks about sound production:

Malcolm’s recordings on Amazon

Malcolm’s website

Jan’s website

Published in September 2011, the first solo recording of Marco Pierobon, member of the Gomalan Brass quintet (www.gomalanbrass.com – Italy) and former Principal Trumpet with two of the two top Italian Symphony Orchestras (Maggio Musicale Orchestra – Zubin Mehta and S.Cecilia Orchestra – Antonio Pappano).

The whole album is dedicated to solo trumpet and wind band repertoire (originals and arrangements):

Arutiunian, Trumpet Concerto
Böhme, Trumpet Concerto
Curnow, Concertpiece
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Dorkshitser/PIerobon)
Goedicke, Concert Study
Mangani, Theme for Trumpet
(1st recording – dedicated to Marco Pierobon)
Vizzutti, American Jazz Suite

Some comments by “VIPs”:

ALLEN VIZZUTTI
“Your playing is wonderful and strong. You have a lot of personal style and we both know that is very important. “Solo” is really a wonderful recording and I congratulate you. I do like one thing on the CD better than your playing. That is the COVER ART! The best!! Beautiful!”

JOUKO HARIANNE
“Great CD and brilliant playing!”

STEPHEN BURNS
“Brilliant and charming!”

ROGER BOBO
“Personal and Powerful, makes the hairs on my arms stand up”

DALE CLEVENGER
“Bravissimo!”

BRASSMUSICIAN.COM
“A must-have CD for all serious trumpet players. Inspirational, musical, virtuosic”

Download at:

CdBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/marcopierobon
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/solo/id485797020

Buy the CD at:

http://www.accademia2008.it/accademia2008/CD_web_shop_gomalan.html

Malcolm McNab, hollywood trumpet playing legend, was recently interviewed by Jan Glaesel – a Danish trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director on Danish National TV.

In this clip, Malcolm McNab speaks about practicing the trumpet:

Malcolm’s recordings on Amazon

Malcolm’s website

Jan’s website

To help you get started, here is a basic trombone slide chart which shows all standard trombone positions from low E to high G, in bass clef.

Click on the image for a full size version of the chart.

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Malcolm McNab, hollywood trumpet playing legend, was recently interviewed by Jan Glaesel – a Danish trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director on Danish National TV.

In this clip, Malcolm McNab speaks about building his own home studio:

Malcolm’s recordings on Amazon

Malcolm’s website

Jan’s website

Contemporary music for 40+ tubas, 6 percussion, choir, 3 conductors and live electronics.

Premiere

26/01/2012 – closing concert of Anish Kapoor’s site specific installation in Milan, Italy, titled “Dirty Corner”.

Dirty Corner, the site-specific installation by Anish Kapoor at the Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, will host the world premiere of GARON by Yuval Avital – a massive sonic composition for 40 tubas and 6 percussion with a choir & soloists of extended vocal techniques, 3 conductors & live electronics.

Sonic experiment

In a large-scale sonic experiment – a concert designed to involve the public and performers in an architecture of meanings and structures – GARON (in Hebrew – “throat”) is the brand new opera of Yuval Avital, an emerging talent of the international contemporary music scene.

The concert is a co-production of MADEINART & Maga Global Arts, the Milan-based performing arts organization in which Avital is the Artistic director, and MilanoSonora.

Orchestration

GARON is a real journey of listening with an exceptional orchestration.

40 tubas (ranging from contrabass Tubas to Euphoniums – the tenor tubas) are the foundation of this original sonic mass (in a stable orchestra usually only one tuba player is present), 6 percussion, 1 choir of 16 singers, 4 soloists of extended vocal techniques, 3 conductors, 1 programmer for the live electronics played in 12 speakers & one composer/director.

Cast

COMPOSITION
Yuval Avital

LIVE ELECTRONICS
Giovanni Cospito

CONDUCTORS
Sandro Gorli, Dario Garegnani

CHOIR CONDUCTOR
Elena Casella

TUBA SOLOISTS
Eros Sabbatani, Paolo Bertorello, Federico Ferrari, Giuseppe Scarati, Christopher Spiteri

VOCAL SOLOISTS
Lee Colbert, Valentina Moar, Lorenzo Pierobon, David W. Benini, Fakhraddin Gafarov

PERCUSSION:
Maurizio Ben Omar, Lodovico Berto, Lorenzo Colombo, Lorenzo D’Erasmo, Giampiero Pisani, Salvatore Scucces

CHOIR
Musica Aperta, Milan

— TUBA CONSORTS —
CONTRABASS & BASS TUBA :
Vincenzo Boriello, Michele Cantatore, Francesco Chinaglia, Lorenzo D’Avolio, Fabrizio Della Corte, Gabriele Desdro, Nicola Di Grigoli,  Marco Firmani, Fabrizio Iacomini, Alberto Introini, Luigi Izzo, Antonio La Balestra, Simone Lanzi, Davide Marinucci, Angelo Messina, Edoardo Oddovero, Giuseppe Osa, Gabriele Pantalone, Perez Gurado Alberto, Domenico Pirrotta, Luciano Porazzini, Francesco Porta, Salvatore Rajmondo, Rebecca Romeo, Cosimo Salvemini,  Gabriele Santalini, Nereo Scarinzi, Giuliano Scoppetta, Alberto Tondi, Francesco Vassene

EUPHONIUM
Pietro Bertoni, Giorgio Bornacina, Giovanni Capelli, Giorgio Ferraro, Stefano Perini, Andrea Testa

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
www.magaglobalarts.com
www.madeinart.it
www.yuvalavital.com

Malcolm McNab, hollywood trumpet playing legend, was recently interviewed by Jan Glaesel – a Danish trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director on Danish National TV.

In this clip, Malcolm McNab speaks about mastering the trumpet recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto:

Malcolm’s recordings on Amazon

Malcolm’s website

Jan’s website

To help you get started, here is a basic trumpet finger chart which shows all standard fingerings from low F# to high C.

This chart also applies to flugelhorn, tenor horn, and treble clef readers of baritone, euphonium and 3 valve tubas.

Click on the image for a full size version of the chart.

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