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Nov 19, 20237 min read

Inclusion in the Brass Band Movement (and Wider Musical World).

This is not a topic I ever thought I would write about, but it is nice to follow what is happening in the world and to have a view of my...

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Nov 11, 20232 min read

GCSE Music - 12 Ideas For Extra Performance Practice and Experience.

If you read my blog post giving 32 tips to help score high marks in GCSE music solo performance, you will have understood how important...

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Nov 10, 202311 min read

GCSE Music (9-1) - Help With How To Score High Marks - 32 Solo Performance Tips From A Moderator

This blog post is going to give GCSE music students and teachers some tips on how to score a higher mark for their solo performance. It...

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Nov 4, 20239 min read

GCSE Music (9-1) - Help With How To Score High Marks - 32 Composition Tips From A Moderator

This post is going to give GCSE music students some tips on how to score a higher mark for their composition coursework. It is likely...

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Nov 3, 20233 min read

Best Beginner Brass Books - A Tune a Day for Trumpet (or any instrument)

In this new series of blog posts, I am going to review a selection of brass books that I personally use for teaching beginners. These...

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Oct 24, 20233 min read

Best Beginner Brass Books - How Brass Players Do It!

In this new series of blog posts, I am going to review a selection of brass books that I personally use for teaching beginners, resources...

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Oct 20, 20233 min read

Best Budget Guitar for Rock Bands

In this blog post, I am going to discuss the three budget guitars I would buy or would recommend for anyone who is starting playing in a...

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Oct 18, 20232 min read

Best Beginner Brass Books - Easy Jazzy 'Tudes

In this new series of blog posts, I am going to review a selection of brass books that I personally use for teaching beginners, resources...

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Oct 17, 20233 min read

Best Beginner Brass Books - Polished Brass

In this new series of blog posts, I am going to review a selection of brass books that I personally use for teaching beginners.

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Oct 15, 20233 min read

Best Beginner Brass Books - Team Brass

In this new series of blog posts I am going to review a selection of beginner brass books that I personally use for teaching beginners.

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Oct 13, 20237 min read

Sterling (UK) Musical Instruments

Information about Sterling Musical Instruments from Grimethorpe Colliery's solo euphonium player, Mark Glover

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Sep 1, 20234 min read

Breathing Devices

Euphonium player Mark Glover reviews some of his breathing devices.

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Aug 30, 20233 min read

Measurable Practice

Ideas for clever ways to practice!

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Oct 29, 20215 min read

Product Review - PBUZZ

I am excited to review this instrument because I have been teaching it in a whole class setting for a few months. To start with, I was...

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Jun 24, 20214 min read

SEN Teaching

Teaching is hard work and it is a job which people who have never been involved in education sometimes think is easy. As a teacher, there...

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May 9, 20216 min read

Arban Study Preparation Tips

At some point, every brass player uses The Arban Cornet Method, and it is highly likely that you will work on the studies found in the...

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Apr 23, 202112 min read

Teaching Beginner Brass

I am certain that as a player I am still suffering in some areas due to incorrect teaching and bad habits that I was taught when I first...

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Apr 8, 20213 min read

Practice STYLE, not Notes

When learning a new piece or working with students on new material I find it useful to try and shift my focus from merely trying to play...

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Apr 4, 20215 min read

Musical Evolution Part 2 - Playing Higher Made Easy

In part two of this musical evolution blog post, I will show you an example of how this practice theory works to help you play higher....

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Mar 28, 20216 min read

Musical Evolution Part 1 - The Theory

Charles Darwin's scientific theory of evolution might not be something which is on your mind when you step into the rehearsal room or get...

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MARK GLOVER

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