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I made these recordings today for my students going to the middle school band camp at SFA next week. For more info about the camps at SFA visit their website here. My students always have a great time there. It's definitely one the Texas summer band camps worth giving a look.
7th Grade Études
8th Grade Études
8th Grade Étude #1 with Metronome quarter note = 76
Simply beautiful!
Always be quick to retreat to a point of ease and beauty.
I use Clear Tune every day. It was one of if not the first full featured tuner app on the App Store. It's been updated regular and I've never had compatibility issues as iOS has been updated.
Driving in to teach in the mornings I set my iPhone in the dash mount and use the drone feature to buzz along. I usually do a little Stamp free lip routine in the car after the kids get dropped of at day care and Stamp #1 at the red lights. The tuner is great but I probably use the drone more. I don't do mouthpiece work with my kids a ton but when I do it's always with Clear Tune droning away.
Not much else to say...I like it, it's stable and it works great. If you need a tuner and run iOS get clear tune.
This recording is from a live performance with the USAF Heritage of America Brass Quintet accompanied by the USAF Heritage of America Band. I'm pretty sure this was in late 1999 or early 2000. The Piece is "Shadowcather" by Eric Ewazen for brass quintet with wind ensemble accompaniment.
The trumpets are myself and Michael Huff. Jemmie Robertson is playing trombone, Phil Burke the tuba and David Crites on horn. All are great players and we had an intense time working together.
We had performed this every other night on tour and I remembered it going very well. I reached out a few years back to the former audio tech of the band to see if he might be able to get me a copy of one of the tour recordings. Graciously he found a recording and sent it my way. It wasn't one of the tour recordings, it was one from a performance at an MENC conference a couple of days later. I was bummed because I had remember that performance being a tough night for me. Sometimes the trumpet is like a nice old friend and can anticipate your every move. This was not such a night.
Listening to this so many years removed it doesn't seem nearly as painful as I had remembered and I'm glad to have it. Either way it was a lot of fun playing and seemed like a good first recording to toss up here.
I hope you enjoy it!