Sonoma State Low Brass Studio

04/25/2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwYDrKtifA&feature=youtu.be

This solo, written by Vincent Bach, has long been a favorite of euphonium players. Sheet music is here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=hungarian+m...

04/23/2020

At around 2 minutes and 2:55 respectively you can see SSU alumnus Zach Newbegin.

Fanfare for Greta for symphonic brass and timpani Performed by SFCM students and faculty. Learn more about SFCM's Brass Ensemble - https://sfcm.edu/degrees-p...

04/14/2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=NFJSvNZRea4

This instructional video looks at how to build a flexible embouchure. We will take a panoramic view of various writers of trombone technique methods. My goal...

01/17/2020

Back in the golden age of famous cornet soloists, the great Herbert Clarke revealed his secret for developing and maintaining a healthy em...

01/09/2020

You don't have to correct all the things that are wrong in order to find what's right. Imagine excellence and then imitate. When you do that, the brain will begin to clear away what's not helpful.

---Arnold Jacobs

12/23/2019

I may use scientific investigative procedures for my understanding of a student’s problems, but when I work with a student, if there is a problem which has to be worked out in a body sense, I do it away from the instrument. We do it completely away from music until we establish normal activity and the re-apply it to the instrumental function. But when I am working with a man as a musician, I always work with his mind, not his body. And we don’t stimulate the mind into asking a question, we stimulate it into issuing a statement.

---Arnold Jacobs

12/15/2019

https://brassmusiconline.com/blogs/articles/practise-advice-from-bud-herseth

Bud Herseth´s famous practise advice - these advices is for all and everyone.

12/12/2019

"In your mind, you have to be a master musician. You have to be a master interpreter of style and phrase as well as one who communicates a message to someone else. The rest is just minor stuff."

---Arnold Jacobs

11/26/2019