
The Four Thousand Dollar Trumpet Won't Fix You
A better horn is the one purchase most players quietly convince themselves they need. This episode asks where that money actually goes - and at what point buying stops paying you back in sound.The who...
7 Sep 16min

Six Great Trumpet Embouchures - And What They Actually Prove
Pick six trumpet legends and you get six different faces. None of them is a template to imitate, and the reasons turn out to be more complicated than most players assume.Jerome Callet published the mo...
1 Sep 14min

The Music Degree Math Nobody Shows You
How many trumpet players graduate from college every year—and how many full-time orchestral trumpet chairs actually open?That is the uncomfortable question at the center of this episode of The Ultimat...
27 Aug 16min

The Orchestral Audition System Is Broken
In Episode 31 of The Ultimate Trumpet Podcast, Adam and Bella take on one of the most frustrating parts of a serious trumpet player's musical life: the orchestral audition.Why does the audition proces...
23 Aug 17min

Arban's Is the Wrong Book to Hand a Beginner
Arban's is the most famous trumpet book ever published — and the wrong thing to hand a beginner. Adam and Bella make the case, and then make the case for the book.The scene that starts itA twelve-year...
17 Aug 16min

What Opera Singers Know About Breathing That Trumpet Teachers Still Ignore
Vocal pedagogy solved breath management a century and a half before brass playing caught up, and most trumpet teachers never went and borrowed it.In this episode of The Ultimate Trumpet Podcast, Adam ...
11 Aug 21min

The Cult of the High F: Why Screaming Range Is Overrated
Nobody has ever walked into Michael Droste's studio and asked how to play a beautiful phrase. They ask about the high F.In this episode of The Ultimate Trumpet Podcast, Adam and Bella take on the most...
4 Aug 20min

10,000 Hours Is a Lie: What Actually Makes a Great Trumpet Player
In this episode of The Ultimate Trumpet Podcast, Adam and Bella take on one of the most repeated "facts" in music education: the idea that it takes exactly ten thousand hours to become a master. Based...
30 Juli 12min



















