James Stamp School

James Stamp School - Roy Poper
Virtual ITG (Internet Trumpet Gathering) 2020 was a ZOOM Meeting hosted by KO Skinsnes of Stomvi USA and Michael Thompson of Thompson Music. The theme was "Schools of Thought" and we had experts discussing various trumpet methods and answering questions from the public.

[@ertatta]

Wow, this is really fantastic. Roy is obviously one of the only Stamp students around that we can trust with his method. Thanku

[@714jk]

Malcom told me to play pedal C all three down. I only had one lesson, but Stamp from a master changed my thinking

[@slidegrease]

Roy Poper: great teacher and great player

[@musicofnote1]

In the late 80's after a radical dental procedure, I couldn't play any more. I went to a colleague who was a student of a particular Swedish educator/performer and well known as an "embouchure" doctor. I ws with this gentleman, for a total of 18 months. We did Stamp from the book. I never could free buzz, that it transfers 1:1 to the mouthpiece - it always dropped around a fourth or fifth. Despite this not working properly, we went on to mouthpiece buzzing - could never buzz more than an octave and a half. And when putting the mouthpiece into the horn, it too did not transfer pitch wise, dropping a good fifth or so and sound absolutely awful. During these last 6 months, my anger never got about a fifth line f, sounded horrid, and as time went on, my throat started tighten ing up, to the point I had to quit playing trumpet. 10 years later, I decided to try playing again, but not trumpet. So I took up trombone in 1991, took lessons with a colleague and we did no buzzing whatsoever. None. We first found my tonal home-base and went step-by-step upwards and downwards, doing a similar exercise to Vince Chicowiz's Air-Flow studies. I only went one step high when I got the same good sound as the previous best note. 1996 I was far enough along, that I passed my performance recital for a teaching certificate on tenor trombone and euphonium. Right after getting my certificate, I switched to bass trombone, started a trombone quartett that stayed together for almost 20 years, Got a job in a local symphony orchestra. I have never buzzed a note whilst a trombone player. I did concentrate on tone quality, everyday concentrically expanding my range from my home base going at the same time upstairs and downstairs. Although I'm retired from public playing, I still have a range from pedal d just above double pedal b-flat going up to c the third space treble clef. So my experience with the Stamp method was, that it didn't work for me to the point I couldn't play the trumpet any more. IOW - there is more than one way to skin a cat.

[@RyanReskyTrumpeter]

There were 5 names in the Tom Stevens video: Louis Davidson George Mager Nathan Prager James Stamp William Vacchiano

[@Funkadelic3]

Awesome!