| Help for a trumpet teacher?
Hey team,
I've only been teaching trumpet for about a year now and I have a student that is starting from scratch. I think that he is doing remarkably well for having been playing for 7 months. He's got a great sound when playing loud (really loud that is), but when I try to get him to turn the volume down, the sound gets really stuffy and inconsistent. I am trying to get him to play with a great sound all the time b/c I know how difficult it is to change once you've been set in your ways. However, no I am realizing that we never work on music and he can only sometimes get an okay sound when playing
mf-->f . I find that whenever we start to work on music, I always stop to keep working on the sound.
HELP!! It feels as if my over analysing is hurting rather than helping...
--JD |