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All About Clarinet

[by Michelle - Using YouTube video A] The clarinet is a mellow woodwind instrument suited both to the symphony orchestra and the jazz ensemble. The most commonly played clarinet is the b More »

[By Ivy] Caring for Your New Trumpet

{Using Youtube Video A} Your trumpet needs to be cared for properly in order to maintain good use. The valves, valve casings and the slides of the trumpet need to be maintained More »

The Oldest Man-made Instrument

[by Michelle - Using Flickr images B] The flute is considered one of the oldest man-made musical instruments. In 1995, archaeologists found in Eastern Europe a flute made of bone that dates More »

[By Ivy] Great Jazz Trumpet Players

{Images Only B} Buddy Bolden is the first great musician in jazz history. He adapted the ragtime music being played by New Orleans marching bands. He infused that music with blues and More »

[By Ivy] Breathing and Buzzing

{Image Only A} Warming up means getting blood to the area and pressure on the lips remove blood. When trumpet player warms up we are talking about warming up four different things: More »

How To Clean Your Trumpet

[by Michelle - using Flickr images A] Proper trumpet maintenance is key to maintaining your sound, and it protects the investment that you or your parents have made in your trumpet. If More »

 

Trumpet: Using Enough Air

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Air is the gas that must be put into the engine, so to speak. The most common thing that young players fail to realize is the amount of air that is necessary to play trumpet. Most often, many of the problems that young players have involves not using enough air. Intonation problems are often the result of not enough air support. Endurance and using too much pressure if also often because of not enough air. Not being able to reach high note? Again, that is usually traced to simple not having enough air support. Even technical passages are hurt when a player is too worried about the notes and forgets to use enough air. Basically, when you use enough air, many of the simple problems often go away and allow you to focus on making the music, which is the real goal of all musicians.

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Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.

Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone.

Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.

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Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone.

Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.

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Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.

Zuckerberg and Moskovitz left Harvard to run thefacebook full time shortly after taking the site national. In August of 2005, thefacebook was renamed Facebook, and the domain was purchased for a reported $200,000 US Dollars (USD). At that time, it was only available to schools, universities, organizations, and companies within English speaking countries, but has since expanded to include anyone.