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Thanks Shawn. Good luck with embouchure wrangling - may the Buzz be with you!

Are you still accepting students? Sent a website correspondence but never heard back

Man Your voice 😯. Do you sing as well?

This is such a good technique to make it less overwhelming! Thank you so much!

Awesome life hack in general. 💪🏼

Do you have a special set of headphones. I haven't found a pair I can comfortably wear while playing the trombone.

Thanks for this video, very helpful :)

I thought I was done drinking for the day

I like the approach attempts over time periods. Three more attempts sound a lot more manageable than three more minutes, even if those attempts take 30 minutes

This is some pretty good advice for more than just music

I like your advice about three more reps for practice, but three more of a certain period of time is much harder. if I'm feeling burned out with making a new track, for example, it's easier for me to say, "I'll try three more new musical ideas" than "I'll try for three more months.". if I'm demotivated, giving myself more time might not really help. what would you say about this?

Sounds like you are saying if im burnt out, burn myself out more.

You are a great teacher. I hear these things in solos others play but now i hear them and know what they are. Thank you.

Thanks! Confirmed my thinking on the subject. I always felt like practicing in a "dead" room where the finest flaws were evident was painful...but...good for the player ultimately. Kind of like a baseball batter swinging two bats to warm up. Make it tough in practice, then, easier in performance...good for your (metaphorical) "muscles".

"some days you win, some days the horn wins" to paraphrase Dizzy Gillespie. If I can get my practice spread out into a morning session on fundamentals and other sessions on materials including new stuff, that has been helpful. Love your content Shawn! Big fan!

Big on the drone with scales. Been using it for my scales and arppeggios for the past 4 months or so and its helped so much

Great video. Number one thing but most forgotten by any player (often teachers as well). Good stuff.

Thanks, it's insightful to see how you methodically approach this issue.

Thanks Shawn. I played when I was a kid, but unfortunately gave it up after about two years. Today I purchased a trombone at a flea market and videos like yours will hopefully get me back into the swing of things (no pun intended).

How about F minor pentatonic over the Gb maj7? (I meant for meas 2: I see you’ve done that at the end.) 😉

I can't remember the song, how is it called?

This dorian-like "scale" is awesome! Thx for sharing this nice approach to it. Very appreciated

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Great info! Thx so much! ❤

Talented🤲

Brah, you're so f@kin' groovy! ❤

I almost believed that it was you who was playing

I start applying all of this to my chromatic harmonica and the bone! ❤❤❤ Much love from Munich Germany

Bro, you are a king in terms of education, motivation and musical knowledge. And so modest on top. Thanks for sharing all this great stuff! 🙏🏼🙌🏽 Very appreciated!

This channel is amazing, not just the video lessons, but also the " shorts-section" is packed with extremely valuable concepts and ideas to work on. I never took trombone lessons, playing for 15 years though, but finally i really know now what to work on, to stop sucking on the horn. Thanks so much for all your content.

Super demo, great explanation - this is the best teacher you could wish for !!

I love that you add practice strategies with these it’s great for students and teachers alike

15:37 it;s actually a Ab-Bb triplet in the 8 bar :D

great stuff! but why do you play sccops like a separate tone like that? and the appogiatura ib the blues phrase as long as the other notes?

I'm totally incapable of buzzing the gradual changes of notes. Don't know how Shaw does it so easily.

ahhhh I love those ‘easy’ examples which you play! I can actually very easy learn new licks from them or just memorise them all and try to apply them in my very begginer-level playing :D

maybye a lil more sustain?? i feel like your sound is ‘dead’ way too soon - but i think it’s due to the recording and mixing, not your playing itself :D

Sounds great Shawn!

Congrats on the new album!

Great video Shawn! I never really thought about the name of that collection of notes (I play ideas like this fairly often). Thanks for the great content and swingin ideas!

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just started playing a few days ago and these videos have been super useful, short and straight to the point! thank you very much

This dude is smaller than the trombone!😮😂🤣

Zero overlap between you and me! Goes to show how much great music JJ made. My faves: "Laura" from J.J. In Person "Blue Bossa" from We'll Be Together Again "Misty" from Standards: Live at the Village Vanguard "Walkin'" from Walkin' (Miles Davis All-Stars) "Amazing Grace" from Tangence I actually like the late JJ stuff the best: it's as though he was composing on the spot.

How do I become one of your students?

Thank you for sharing this important information for many of us !

IM putting down my alto an tenor saxophones down for a bit . going to pick up a trombone tenor .to start i been just useing the mouth piecec .when i get my horn i will follow thank you

great stuff

You should explain and show the buzzing much more without mouthpiece before doing it on the mouthpiece, cause in the pencil exercise you aren't buzzing your lips

Shawn: I just listened to and worked with this video. Very helpful; practical, clear, well illustrated by the examples. I'll be listening several time and using these ideas as I work on RC with my local teacher. Thanks