Why do we practice? We practice to get better at what we do. This is true of all that we attempt. If you enjoy playing cards, you need to play cards. If you are a player of baseball, you need to practice your sport and this is also true for musicians working to improve their ability on their chosen instrument. As young instrumentalists, we were encouraged to spend time practicing by our parents. Money was allocated for private lessons and for that reason, our guardians expected a reasonable return for their investments. Most aspiring young performers were required to belligerently…

  How To Make Upper Slurs Smoother – Trumpet Blog (thetrumpetblog.com)    

Connecting slurred notes can be a struggle but once you understand what is involved, correcting this problem will be easier than you might think. The most important adjustments are as follows- Part 1. Speed Clean slurs require an instantaneous change from one note to the next. This rapid adjustment is complicated through the use of tonguing in 95% ( I’m just guessing) of our playing. The study of tonging is required at the higher level of trumpet lessons (private lessons, Colleges, Universities) as illustrated by the number of books focusing on this topic in our personal collections of practice material.…