James Stamp School

[@ertatta]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Funkadelic3]

Awesome!