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Back to basics
BootCamp
training trumpeters to teach themselves
fundamentals Boot Camp
January 2023
For Highly Motivated Trumpet Players Who Want To Take Their Playing To The Next Level
In your trumpet-playing life, what matters most is the basics. Mastering the building blocks of your technique is the fastest, smartest approach to reach any kind of musical goal.
Want to start 2023 in stride, playing as well as you can? I’m gonna guess your answer is “Yes!” If it is, join me and special guest, Karen Donnelly (principal trumpet, National Arts Center Orchestra) this January 13-15 on Zoom for our Back to Basics Bootcamp.
New Years’ resolutions are great, but THIS year, take action – use this Boot Camp to kick start your year and level up your playing!
There is no doubt that my career in the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been fueled by the basics, including:
- a beautiful sound
- stable pitch
- solid rhythm
- good intonation
- elegant phrasing
Knowing how to solidify these fundamentals is the key to success – join us to learn how we learned to develop and maintain these qualities in our playing.
This is only a partial clip : the full video for my Gekker tutorial is over 20 minutes long.
This is only a small sample – the full Schlossberg tutorial is 35 minutes long!
Here’s the tentative schedule (all live sessions on Zoom):
Friday, January 13 afternoon session (all times in eastern time zone):
- 4:00 PM eastern How to Develop a Balanced Routine with Karen Donnelly
Saturday, January 14:
- 9:00 AM morning warm-up Karen
- 2:00-4:00 PM Fly around the trumpet with Ben
- 5:00-7:00 PM Arban and practice aids/breathing tools with Karen
Sunday Morning, January 15:
- 10:00 AM warm up with Ben
- 2:30-4:30 PM Beyond the CHOPS – understanding how to use your whole body to play with greater ease with Ben
- 5:00 PM Q and A Ben and Karen
MEMBERS will get the opportunity to work one on one with Karen and Ben in live sessions. We will accept the first 12 members on a first come, first served basis – after that it will be auditor positions only.
AUDITORS will have access to all live sessions (and, yes, if you cannot make the live times, you may watch the recordings which will all be shared).
In addition to live classes, every auditor and member will gain month-long access to a set of video tutorials from my Sound Truth Library™ that explain how to practice my favorite exercises from these classic fundamentals method books:
| Arban | Shuebruk |
| Caruso | Schlossberg |
| Clarke | Stamp |
| Gekker | Thibaud |
All in all, this program offers well over 10 hours of video tutorials and instruction.
If you’d like additional training with either Karen or Ben, feel free to sign up for a Practice Window Training Session ™ when you click one of the buttons below.
“Studying with Ben was one of the best things that happened to me for my trumpet playing… Hearing Ben, not only in lessons, but on stage with the BSO every week, was enormously beneficial for my later success. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my time studying with him.“
Travis Peterson
Principal Trumpet
The Utah Symphony
