We are pleased to announce the launch of Cornet Corner with Colin. Each week on his vary own page of Rowan Trumpet Prof Blog, Colin Brook will bring you answers to your most pressing questions about life, love, cornet, brass banding, teaching the youngsters, and just how he does what he does each day. Just … Continue reading Cornet Corner with Colin

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Hi All, Very long weekend of playing last S,Su, and M.  Saturday B&R did their annual show in Brighouse at the Methodist Church.  2-shows which included performances by the Brighouse High School Concert Band, The Brighouse High School FUNK Band (yes Funk Band!), and a folk singer from Brighouse. As you may recall I was … Continue reading Weekend details and Christmas Shows

Last night I finished 5 brass band shows in 3 days. Ouch! Chops were very stiff this morning. Details to follow...... Cheers, B- P.S. Solo on Sunday night was fine, not great. Still have a couple of changes to make for Friday at Town Hall, and I need to figure out why I have a … Continue reading “Uncle!”

Had my second lesson with Phillip late this afternoon. I'm doing Napoli with Lindley on Sunday and next Friday so I wanted to play it for Phillip. He did say that my vibrato is better. And then he totally kicked my butt on the solo. Didn't let up for a single second. It was great. … Continue reading Lesson #2 with McCann

You wouldn't believe how much grief they gave Colin about my post!  They wanted to know how much he had to pay me.  Ha!  Others want the same billing.  I think have actually talked about most of the B&R Band (back row, front row, tubas, sop, rep, flugel and horn sounds and blend, the baritone … Continue reading Laughing with B&R

In the states when we hear a UK band we are often amazed at the dynamic contrast. As I sit through rehearsal after rehearsal here, it has started to dawn on me that UK bands think of dynamics as a bigger ratio then we do. Over here MF is twice as loud as P, like … Continue reading A note about dynamics

As you all may imagine this whole trip is costing quite a bit of money.  The truth is we couldn't have done it with out using some inheritance (from the sale of Sarah's uncle's house in the UK) which was given to us by Sarah's parents (it covers our food and housing!!!).  We also got … Continue reading The cost of a UK sabbatical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0ZJZUcgF0 http://www.innviertler-wadlbeisser.at Enjoy, B-

I'm playing flugel with Brighouse and Rastrick this Saturday. We are doing two shows in Brighouse. John Lee (current B&R flugel player) has to be away and asked if I was interested in being his "dep". He was willing to give me his instrument for the week so I said "Sure!" Should be very interesting. … Continue reading Flugel this week