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MARK GLOVER
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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 - Standard of Excellence
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 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 20, 20237 min read
My British Open Experience with Grimethorpe
For a 43 year old, I consider myself to have very limited top level brass band experience. I played at the National Finals in The Royal...
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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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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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Oct 8, 20213 min read
CD Review - Éire Time - Gary Curtin
A friend of mine (not a euphonium player) described Gary Curtin's sound to me once as being "like pure silk is pouring from his...
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Jul 9, 20214 min read
K&G Mouthpiece Review
To read my November 2023 update jump ahead with this link. Kurun & Gilbert are the designers and manufacturers of K&G Mouthpieces, a...
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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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