wiseone2

One of the benefits of being an older trumpet player is not having had to wade through the mountains of misinformation floating around today. Armed only with an Arban book, a Schlossberg book, some of Mr. Hering's books and the Bartold excerpts I began my trumpet journey.
Today, when I go online I hear and see the current mess that is supposed to make musicians of horn blowers, I shudder. The arias and songs in the back of the Arban book are the basics that every trumpet player should be judged by................CAN YOU PLAY A TUNE ON THAT PIECE OF METAL? The heck with the squeaks..........play some music! Touch someone's heart with your playing. Don't make them run screaming from the room covering their ears.
Sing, don't scream!
Wilmer

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Be sure Brain is engaged before putting Mouthpiece in gear.
S.Suark 1951

Bloomin Untidy Musician

In my experience, the paying public want to hear beautiful sounds/music. When non-musician friends of mine listen to Stevie Wonder's Superstition, they dig the groove/sound not the technical facility.
I play a lot of brass band test pieces, competition music designed to stretch the brass players' technique. It frustrates me sometimes that this music is designed to test, rather than to touch a person's soul. Give me Morton Feldman any day!