DVD

Mr. Vache is an active jazz trumpeter in New York City and a charter member of the faculty of the Jazz Studies program at the Juilliard School. In this DVD he presents lessons that apply to all students. Includes: four hours of video content and a 28-page booklet; lessons in breathing, fingering, embouchure and tonguing for the beginner to intermediate player, plus an advanced lesson; interviews with five featured students; footage of a recording session with Mr. Vache's band; history of the trumpet; a visit to the Musical Instrument Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a tour of the Yamaha Brass Instruments facility; a how-to section of the proper care and cleaning of trumpets; sheet music that can be printed out on a PC - including all the parts for the songs in the recording session; and much more. Includes lessons in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French and German.

Music education has always been a Canadian Brass top priority. The group started by performing 200 in-school concerts yearly, several of the artists in the group come from families of music teachers, and all of them got their own starts in public school music programs. This DVD compiles three Canadian Brass educational programs in a single source - Strings, Winds and All That Brass (motivational message: Participate and Don't Give Up), Master Class (hands-on guidance to performance improvement), and Brass Spectacular (on-camera meeting of musical greatness).