I have given lessons by web cam and phone to trumpet players all over the world. A simple 1 hour fine tuning can make a big difference in your playing.
I get asked all of the time if high notes can center or sound fleshed out....
So here is a clip of Me playing part of the Hummel up 2 octaves. I start on F over High C and end on A over Double C (that's 2 notes from Triple C). It is up to you to decide if they are real notes or not.
1 Hour Lesson $ 80.
Andrea Tofanelli & Greg Kuehn playing a little duet. Andrea is a STAR in Europe and will be here. Greg was a Vegas pro who is now playing in New Mexico.
Half Hour Lesson $ 45.
Rex Merriweather. Rex is in LA and has done Club, Studio, TV and Movie work.
Anne King. Anne is another LA musician. She has had many TV appearances and done tours with Guns and Roses, Don Henley, Ray Charles...
1 Hour Lesson $ 80.
Keith Fiala. Keith did a couple of tours with Maynard Ferguson and he is now playing in Austin Texas with a group call Memphis Train Revue.
2 video clips of Keith Wood at the end of an all day a lesson with me.
Half Hour Lesson $ 45.
Short lick and how he feels with the new set.
Arpeggio Low G up to Double D and down to Pedal D.
Unbelievable lesson, man! Clint is a long-range thinker. He told me that he had a plan from our first lesson together, but it had to be in stages. First, he had to get my belly button (breathing) to work right. Then, straighten out my tongue arch. (and how he used compression) And finally, relax my facial tension.
If he had told me the whole plan, I would've wanted to rush things, just like a college kid. The kicker was when he said, "If you lived here in the area, we could've done all this in 6 months"! Oh well... The only thing I have to battle now is the habit of tensing when I see certain things coming up in the music.
One of the craziest things is that I feel warmed up all the time now. It's WILD! I just buzz in the pedal area and my lip hums all the time. I feel like the Ice Man who just broke out of his "wintery coffin"!
The hardest part was the first hour of our lesson. I could not play a note (even make a sound) for the first hour. Man, I was close to tears. It felt like he wanted me to change my embouchure - I saw weeks or months of trial and error ahead of me. UGH! Then it just seemed to click. A low G came out that made us both smile - BIG! For the remainder of our 8 hours together (including a couple of hours on trombone), I never got tired. I have only gotten fatigued once since, and that was our last song on New Year's Eve - I haven't even been able to get a good practice in since then. All I've been doing is buzzing. Relaxed feel, dude! It has truly changed my entire musical life.
God bless,
Keith
I met "POPS" on the Internet and he helped me through some frustrating problems that I was struggling with on the horn, and he was always available.......
Thanks Pops..................
Herb Alpert
It was a pleasure to work with you Herb and I LOVE the Remix CD “Whipped Cream and Other Delights: Re-Whipped” that you recorded during our relationship. Congratulations on the CD making it to #5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart. You continue to be an inspiration to all brass players. Pops
I have been giving lessons by phone since the early 90s. I have given them to comeback players as well as pros on tour.
I have given web cam lessons on both Yahoo Messenger and Skype since Oct of 08 fine tuning how I give them.
The response to these have been great.
With web cam or phone lessons out of town students can do checkups, tune-ups and follow ups on a much more regular basis than if they travel here. After all the real expense of the lessons is in travel and hotels and time away from work.
My students have recorded movie sound tracks, tv shows, CDs, been on the Tonight Show, toured with bands like Maynard Ferguson, Guns and Roses....
People fly in to Dallas from around the world to take lessons. However; you can save the expense of a flight by taking advantage of a phone lesson.
You do fine with using a regular phone because I use a conference phone with multiple duplex microphones, a dual cone 8" speaker, auto sound level adjustment (so when the student stops talking and starts playing it doesn't blast and distort) and even jacks to patch it though a recorder, computer or even my stereo. My phone adjusts the levels so yours doesn't have to.
Web cam lesson require that you have a web cam and download either Yahoo Messenger or Skype.
Both have good instructions. I would advise that you do a web cam with a friend before your lesson so you can adjust the camera.....
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Lessons are 80 an hour or 45 a half hour and can be paid by paypal through my website.
1 Hour Lesson $ 80.
Half Hour Lesson $ 45.
Please email pops@bbtrumpet.com and we can set a time for me to call you if you are in the United States.
If you are over seas then you must make the phone call.
Thanks;
Pops
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Audio of me teaching a comeback player tongue arch using line 1 page 125 of the Arban book. The comeback player did all of the playing. I left out the 2 tries in the middle to save time.
I met "POPS" on the Internet and he helped me through some frustrating problems that I was struggling with on the horn, and he was always available.......
