Tag: educator

• The Mouthpiece Question

  I know what your thinking, yet another trumpeter writing about the importance of mouthpiece selection and striking the perfect balance between back-bore and throat size. I happen to follow all those trends religiously but this isn’t another one of those rants. Coincidentally, I currently play a Laskey 75C with a standard throat and back-bore, not…

  Ed Castro

  February 20, 2015

  Thoughts

  artist, back-bore, Dad, education, educator, Family, father, Husband, kid, Laskey, Mouthpiece, mouthpiece selection, music, music business, performer, stress, Teaching, throat size, trumpet, Wife

• Lyman Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet: Book Review

  Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet by Zachary Lyman is a great set of exercises to add to your practice routine. I don’t often get an opportunity to review the work of a friend and colleague, so I take great delight in writing the next set of words. I use this book often and I use it…

  Ed Castro

  July 2, 2014

  Methods

  educator, exercises, music, music education, Practical Daily Warm-Ups, Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet, practice routine, Students, teach, Teaching, trumpet, trumpet routine, Zachary Lyman

• Balance

  I’d like to think that I have a certain amount of balance in my life. If I keep to my routines I feel whole and complete. As a musician-educator there are few opportunities to work both sides of my professional life equally and with the same intensity. One will usually be stronger than the other,…

  Ed Castro

  March 19, 2014

  Thoughts

  Balance, Dad, educator, kid, musician, performer, teacher, Teaching