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What I’ve learned so far from Shelby Foote
I just finished volume one of Shelby Foote’s fantastic trilogy on the Civil War. Volume one takes the reader from Fort Sumter to the battle of Perryville. It’s a long volume (and the other two volumes are even longer!). Of course, I always like to imagine that I’m learning something about the trumpet, even when…
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Waste some time today!
If you have read any of my Trumpet Building Blocks, you know that I recommend all kinds of methods to help you squeeze a little trumpet practice (or composing, in the case of my last post, “The Portable Composer“) in between all of your other daily activities. I write about this so frequently because I face…