Hey everyone What’s up?I recorded a little song that I got today. It's called Firedance. A friend of mine gave it to me. It's a Crossmen arrangement (the drum and bugle corps) anyway here is a little sample of it for you all. Please feel free to critique me. I'm still working on it. When I learn how to play it better I will repost the song. http://www.angelfire.com/md3/trumpet/fd.mp3

On December 28, 2001 I got to the second lesson of the Systematic Approach. I already feel that the arpeggios are making a huge different. Today in church I was so surprised by my endurance. I played for about one hour with a 5 minute break and I felt like as if I could still could of kept going. My tone was much stronger and everything just seemed to come together. Besides my Claude Gordon studies my transposing is getting real good and my triple and double tonguing finally came back and now I am really getting better at that too. My range is still the same. But I am pleased with the way things are going.

I received my Claude Gordon " Brass playing is No harder than Deep Breathing" book a couple of months back. I read it and got the concept of filling the tank up. Now I ordered the "Systematic Approach" book and I just got it December 12, 2001. I am still on lesson 1. I have decided to stay with each lesson for 2 weeks. So far I have learned the pedal register. My range is now pedal C to High E. My range use to be Low F# to High D. At first I wasn't sure which method to pick. But after reading the "Brass Playing is no Harder Than Deep Breathing". I was sure that I wanted to go with Claude Gordon.