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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

Euphonium player Mark Glover reviews some of his breathing devices.

Ideas for clever ways to practice!

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...

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...

To read my November 2023 update jump ahead with this link. Kurun & Gilbert are the designers and manufacturers of K&G Mouthpieces, a...

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...

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...

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 started playing. Thankfully I have found ways to play that work for me and have allowed me to develop much further than I ever thought I could. I always try very hard to get things right for new beginner brass players in their very first lesson. The lessons learnt in this first session literally paves the way for success or failure so it is