Let me be honest here. If you are a senior in high school and you are wanting to mess around with the euphonium and you just bombed your recent trumpet audition at Western Michigan there is no reason for you to be going into trumpet performance.
Everyone has a bad day but your questions lead me to believe you have no business doing a performance degree. What do you think you are going to do with that performance degree once you get out of college? Do you think once you get out you will be able to compete with the best trumpet players in the country who never once wondered whether they should switch to euphonium their senior year.
I'm not trying to rain on your parade. I'm just giving you some free advice. Go to a good school and get a degree outside of music. Practice trumpet every day. Play in the band. Play in the pep band. Have fun and study hard. Enjoy music and come out with a 4 year degree that will get you a good paying job. If you are dead set on trumpet get your ass in the practice room and find the very best teacher you can. Forget you ever heard the word euphonium.
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Originally Posted by Josiah  I really want to do performance, but I don't know if that will happen....... |