Recent Episodes
Season 8, Episode 10. Identify common trombone problems, test a focused correction, and help students hear the difference. Trombone troubles can sound deceptively similar. A late note may come from slow slide movement, uncertain rhythm, or articulation that happens before the slide arrives. A wrong pitch may be an inaccurate position, the wrong partial, or […]
Trumpet students can struggle with everything from airy tone and cracked notes to excessive mouthpiece pressure, poor articulation, intonation, and sticky valves. In Season 8, Episode 9 of The Music Educator Podcast, Bill Stevens explores 10 common trumpet problems and practical ways music educators can diagnose and correct them. This episode covers tone production, embouchure, […]
French horn problems and solutions become much easier to teach when the educator identifies the cause before prescribing a correction. A cracked note, airy tone, unstable pitch, or weak low register may come from the student’s ear, air stream, embouchure, articulation, hand position, posture, or the instrument itself. Because several causes can create the same […]