In this video lesson, Nick Drozdoff discusses an older method he developed and wrote about. Nick Drozdoff now longer uses these ideas as such, but offers them here as useful ideas for student trumpeters.

1. Long Tones & Sotto Voce
2. Clarkes Studies: Sotto Voce
3. Singing Exercise from Low Ab to F over double C
4. Embouchure Design Revisited
5. Flexibility and Trills
6. High Gear & Low Gear
7. Breathing for Trumpet
8. How To Play An Asymmetric Mouthpiece
9. Flow Studies I
10. Flow Studies II
11. Gattermann Etude

I decided to put up a series of video clips of practice sessions, including mistakes and missed notes. I thought it would be informative to the students to see and hear a professional actually practicing what he is preaching. Now, I don’t mean to imply other teachers don’t practice what they teach. However, during private lessons, the student only gets a smattering of what it its the teacher actually does when he/she practices. They don’t get to sit through the practice sessions themselves. While I do truncate for time, these video clips are indeed the real thing, played with abandon. I do some lecturing as well, in an effort to discuss what it is that I do. I hope these clips can help any player find a way to improve their own way of working.

For more on these lessons, please visit: http://nickdrozdoff.com/onlinelessons/