WindWorks Trumpet Academy by Mystery to Mastery | PHK | Activity https://mysterytomastery.com/member-profile/paul-kelly8/activity/ Activity feed for PHK. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:16:36 +1000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 d9ca882299862a8e2a7ce3488bcec15b PHK replied to the topic Jazz and Improvisation in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/jazz-and-improvisation/#post-146770 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:01:16 +1000 For anyone UK based I can highly recommend Jazz School UK – The Shoefactory. They run courses through the year and get in the very best UK teachers, including Steve Waterman for trumpet.
https://jazzschool.co.uk
There are others.

If you want private online tuition with one of the best players in the UK I can recommend Neil Yates. Watch his…[Read more]

]]> c27df3a9ef394debbde97efc1bb599b2 PHK started the topic Points from Live Sunday morning 28th in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/points-from-live-sunday-morning-28th/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:19:22 +1000 Points from the Live session Sunday morning 28th August 2022

1 Psychology of come back players

I have been meaning to post on this for a while. A lot of players on the site are comeback players. As a comeback player I constantly find there is a frustration of not having the same ease of playing when younger. There a a number of reasons for…[Read more]

]]> f33862ec444b33c113b8998356a50035 PHK replied to the topic Mouthpiece Honeymoon? in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/mouthpiece-honeymoon/#post-77196 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:00:32 +1000 Record yourself on good equipment and listen carefully. It sounds different out there. I have been through the safari many times and have a huge collection. Initial impressions are deceptive. I recently was happy with one set up. A friend offered me a trumpet to try and I recorded it but found some issues I had not expected. After an evening of…[Read more]

]]> a2ac278064cf518527ba3692c73660db PHK's profile was updated https://mysterytomastery.com/activity/p/8610/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:05:28 +1000 0 1f3deaca8bfb32f7386f3c4643c31364 PHK replied to the topic Trombone mouthpiece in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/trombone-mouthpiece/#post-38450 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:55:32 +1100 I find playing trombone helps a lot. I can feel body tension I was unaware of. The shoulders relax considerably and I am now aware of this when playing the trumpet. I then find relaxed chops just slowly slurring and use this to find the same shape on the trumpet. I used to start with way too much tension so had nowhere to go. I am even starting to…[Read more]

]]> 6358c33268d438726cd72c7284db0b2c PHK replied to the topic Fighting the frustration in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/fighting-the-frustration/#post-31450 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:55:19 +1000 Today was different again and when I read this theme I felt this might help a little.
Some years ago I was advised to play the trombone to feel more clearly the vibration of the lips. Having bought an old instrument off a friend I used it for a while but then let it go when I started doing MtM. Now WindWorks has come out I have started to use it…[Read more]

]]> 9f0226a11324f5401cb505bedf281c06 PHK replied to the topic [EVERYONE READ THIS] Point of Difference question in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/point-of-difference-question/#post-30181 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:32:43 +1000 Thank you Bill and Greg for your masterclass in how this sight works. Invaluable to us all.
It has reinforced my recent thoughts re purity of process. Having dipped into Emerald after some reasonable responses in Ruby I have gone through all the course from the beginning yet again in the last few weeks and have reached Andante A. Each time I go…[Read more]

]]> 8e522444981a1780193c9da8befff0e8 PHK replied to the topic Jaw, articulations and lip placement in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/jaw-articulations-and-lip-placement/#post-28834 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:48:35 +1000 Last paragraph should be the “ahoo “ position.
Paul

]]> fd4d46fc7134fb93190cbccba5a04daf PHK started the topic Jaw, articulations and lip placement in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/jaw-articulations-and-lip-placement/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:46:06 +1000 Hi Greg
I did post a few weeks ago about jaw position. In the upper register I find myself pushing the jaw forward with a pivot like movement. When doing my Ruby exercises I get clear soft notes but cut out on the crescendo but sometimes opening up with this jaw movement. At a gig on Sunday I struggled with a G at the top of the stave but made…[Read more]

]]> 003968fbeb88f0cfc1735b0f89cdd08f PHK replied to the topic Thoughts on the MTM method and high compression mouthpieces in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/thoughts-on-the-mtm-method-and-high-compression-mouthpieces/#post-27341 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:09:35 +1000 HI. Interesting point this. I have been playing on larger mouthpieces but have been recommended a smaller piece by a friend and it does help. I am now working about 3C size. However, I have never been able to play on shallow mouthpieces. I tried a Marcinkiewicz Shew 2 some years ago and found my endurance disappeared and on one quintet gig I had…[Read more]

]]> 9a4c0cb0727242fc55e8a5d00fd5e05e PHK replied to the topic Jaw position in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/jaw-position/#post-24930 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:11:07 +1000 Hi Greg
The jaw is also a problem for me. I have worked through the course again to the ultimate stage. Recently I am finding issues with volume. I think I have the process correct with clean soft notes at the top of the exercises but when I come to do the crescendo things sometimes seize up. A slight forward jaw movement takes the lower lip out a…[Read more]

]]> 9ed3924729d6e316d2020cabfa5e4abb PHK replied to the topic WindWorks Secret and my GOLF swing challenge in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/windworks-secret-and-my-golf-swing-challenge/#post-20260 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:35:03 +1100 Sorry to hear this Greg. It must be so frustrating. A few years ago I had to have minor surgery right on the placement spot of the mouthpiece. It was no playing for three months and then back to the beginning with a ton off patience. Thankfully I am not dependent on playing for my livelihood.
I posted back in November that I had gone back to the…[Read more]

]]> 427aa1cc2cf36f2f748fa39a1ada00f8 PHK replied to the topic Mouthpiece size and mmmahhhwhoo! in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/mouthpiece-size-and-mmmahhhwhoo/#post-19824 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:16:26 +1100 I intended posting a very long list of issues on Thursday but when I pressed submit lost the lot because of an internet problem. This was one of my issues. I am also finding I am playing on the red of the lips and working toward a bigger mouthpiece. I sometimes do the early exercises on trombone. This way I really feel the lips vibrate. I find…[Read more]

]]> 2b78996fecd4be3611a6f2f6fc0a47f4 PHK replied to the topic Revision review in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/revision-review/#post-12952 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:34:09 +1100 And the end product when I came back in the afternoon to my normal playing involved a scale from high C up to G with repeated ease and much less of the manipulation to pivot etc. A day when it works. It may be back to the stave tomorrow. Thank goodness I don’t have to earn a living from playing this thing.

]]> 8480137142dd14168fb4c18201cb93fa PHK started the topic Revision review in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/revision-review/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:08:28 +1100 I have gone back over the early videos yet again. This time I picked up on the Largo long tones. I had dismissed them as not important for general revision. This time I watched carefully as after last weeks success I had had a dip. Yesterday I went through all the first set and today focused on Largo singing C and then the long tone and C#…[Read more]

]]> b2bf6a322064a836dcc05019d0881f78 PHK replied to the topic WindWorks Secret and my GOLF swing challenge in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/windworks-secret-and-my-golf-swing-challenge/#post-12603 Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:59:54 +1100 Interesting. I have been planning to post for a while as I am observing changes. Pre Windworks I had been using book two and slurring up to Eb above the stave but not able to use it in performance. I worked through this course fairly quickly and and was waiting for the ultimate level. While waiting I went back to the first video again and worked…[Read more]

]]> 29fda248c5a517aae947a1972f077040 PHK replied to the topic Progress in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/progress/#post-8184 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:18:23 +1000 Hi Jim
I was in a similar position when I retired 12 years ago having not played for over 20 years and having once been a competent classical player. I could not get close to where I had been in my younger days. I took on a new challenge of playing jazz. Things were going well with a great teacher till I had a minor surgery on the playing spot of…[Read more]

]]> 4e1b54401120834cf75692e7f180ba4b PHK replied to the topic Singing C Eb exercises in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/singing-c-eb-exercises/#post-7306 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:38:22 +1000 Sorry but it is not the singing C Eb but the the Eb Allegro exercises which sounds D as the drone is the wrong pitch.

]]> 64e3a1a02285baea65a21685e33c131e PHK started the topic Singing C Eb exercises in the forum WindWorks https://mysterytomastery.com/topic/singing-c-eb-exercises/ Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:59:51 +1000 I assume you are aware that the Singing C Eb exercises are recorded on D and not Eb. This was interesting as I am trying a new mouthpiece and it set off a whole lot of tests of the intonation across the instrument as the Eb is the hardest note to get in tune at the moment. Also interesting that you say this is where a lot of people hit problems. I…[Read more]

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