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No matter how strong your inner musician is, it is impossible to achieve your horn-playing goals without understanding the basic cornerstones of technique. In The Efficient Approach, I discuss at length how a clear appreciation of air pressure, embouchure support, and syllabic manipulation influence our core sound, and how that sound production influences every aspect of our horn-playing success. “…any number of complex things are explained – air, sound, embouchure use, warm-up – very succinctly, leaving out unnecessary complexity.

A brilliant accomplishment” – David Jolley  

…an in-depth analysis of efficient production by an outstanding artist/teacher of the horn….practical, through, and clearly presented.– Randy C. Gardner    

Newly released is Charlie's new book "The Singing Trombone". Building on the orginal book "A Singing Approach to the Trombone", Charlie adds a lot of new material here, especially:

•New comments and refined explanations to accompany and introduce the exercises
•Many fantastic new exercises on fundamentals
•An entire section on orchestral excerpts... this section alone is worth a semester's tuition at Depaul!
•134 pages