Phil Norris Pro Trumpet Lessons

Announcing now I've moved from Zoom online lessons to https://www.muzie.live/ Way better platform with better video and audio quality and built in metronome. No longer need to send credentials. Students just go to the platform, sign up with my teacher code and you're in. Message me here or email at [email protected] or call at 951-780-4929 for more details.

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Announcing that I am now available for online lessons via "Zoom", especially during this corona virus shut down. Message me here or email me at [email protected] for further info.

Spider 6 legged trumpet and Flute stand. This is a fundraiser for the Kingsmen Drumcorps, a non profit 501c3 organization.

Spider Trumpet or Flute stand-6 Legs--Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps | eBay Spider Trumpet or Flute stand-6 Legs--Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps | Musical Instruments & Gear, Brass, Parts & Accessories | eBay!

Here's the EMO convertible/adjustable cup mute.

EMO trumpet HUSH Adustable Cup/Straight Mute-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drumcorps | eBay EMO trumpet HUSH Adustable Cup/Straight Mute-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drumcorps | Musical Instruments & Gear, Brass, Parts & Accessories | eBay!

Here's the flugel stand. Can also hold a soprano sax. Main difference between this and the trumpet stand is the size of the top. Flugel one here is fatter,etc.

Spider Flugelhorn/Soprano Sax Stand-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps | eBay Spider Flugelhorn/Soprano Sax Stand-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps | Musical Instruments & Gear, Brass, Parts & Accessories | eBay!

Here's another item for sale benefitting the Kingsmen. This one you can get the valve oil and a tube of slide grease together.

La Tromba T2 Valve Oil & MIT Slide Grease-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drumcorps | eBay Grease also works on trombone tuning slides. T-2 is about the slickest valve oil known to man. Lasts for weeks on valves. Doesn't evaporate as fast as other kerosene based oils. | eBay!

Hey to all my students. As you know I'm with the Kingsmen Starcorps organization which is working towards putting out a competitive "A" drumcorps soon. We have another fundraiser we're doing in selling brass accessories starting with "T-2" valve oil, MIT Slide Grease, 6 legged trumpet and flugelhorn stands, and an "EMO" adjustable cup mute. Check it out...all proceeds go to the Kingsmen Starcorps...a non profit 501C3 organization.

La Tromba "T-2" Valve Oil-Fundraiser for Kingsmen Drumcorps | eBay Grease also works on trombone tuning slides. T-2 is about the slickest valve oil known to man. Lasts for weeks on valves. Doesn't evaporate as fast as other kerosene based oils. | eBay!

Bigger mouthpiece? Small mouthpiece? Is the "goal" to have everyone in a high school trumpet section on the biggest mouthpiece Bach makes? Then why not a 1A? Who's right? Well, it depends on what kind of playing you want to do. The bigger sizes do give the player a big phat tone in and under the staff, but the upper register is usually difficult for most players on large pieces. The higher notes are aided by using a semi shallow/smaller cup mouthpiece and if you check the famous screaming trumpet players most aren't using a 3C or bigger. It's not that one can't develop a working range on a large mouthpiece it's just that it takes longer and it's a harder climb with tons more work and effort,etc. Big pieces can also contribute to more mouthpiece pressure against the lips in that the player is having to blow through a wide open elevator shaft and can't get the proper resistance support to be able to get the upper register. People are different, with different lips, teeth, blowing capacities, facial musculature,etc. Certainly some can play a 3C, but others can't. Forcing all trumpet students into this large piece is pretty arrogant, and no matter what, it won't give any uniform sound in a trumpet section really. This is equal to an "instructor" fixing everyone's tuning slide the same with little scratch notches. Fact is different people play the horn in different ways. Some are downstream "straight ahead" players, others are upstream with the horn tilted upwards at an angle. I say to these "instructors" leave the kids alone and let the serious students choose the mouthpiece that works for them with help from their private teacher. I went through at least a half dozen mouthpieces in my teen years. It's a search that everybody does and something everybody should do rather than someone forcing people onto what "they think" gives a uniform sound. If you have a student player who has closed throat issues, it won't matter what size mouthpiece he's on. A bigger mouthpiece will exasperate the issue he already has. He'll still have a pinched "strangled" sound even with a bigger sized mouthpiece. I can understand that a corps or band is trying for a uniform sound in the trumpet section, I get that, but it's not really achieved by forcing everybody on the same equipment, it's achieved by teaching the kids how to approach the music with the equipment they have and are used to.

Ok.....FB is bugging me to post something so here goes,heh.

"Warm up" is the most important thing a brass/trumpet player can do. Without that the lip cells/tissues won't cooperate or buzz right and it's a struggle fighting the horn. Trumpet takes daily practice also. It's not like a guitar or drums or other "riding bicycle" instrument where you can take 2 weeks or more off and come back to it. When people say "I used to play trumpet in school but I lost my lip" is a misnomer. What's happened is over time of not playing, the musculature goes into atrophy. I've taught many "be back" players who've regained their embouchures by doing a daily practice routine.

I teach an "on the horn" warm up rather than for hours buzzing a mouthpiece. Reason is the windage is different with the mouthpiece alone vs it being in the horn. We want to warm up on what we're going to play on,etc. Claude Gordon is completely correct on this assessment.

I soon will be doing online lessons with the we**am I just bought. I take paypal also and can email the routine to the student once I've written it up.