Focusmusic.com.au Website Review

Any age, any skill level – we tailor professional lessons to help each student achieve their goals. All of our Teachers are highly experienced and hold qualifications in music, education or related fields. Our lessons foster the musical, social and intellectual development of students in a professional learning environment. We strive to bring music to everyone in our community as a partner-organisation with Act, Belong, Commit I was about 7 years old when I first saw a guy stand up in front of an orchestra and play Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto. I still remember being blown away by the sound that he made through the trumpet. Maybe it was his commanding presence on stage, or maybe it was the sound he produced. I am not sure what it was, but from that day on I wanted to do what he did. The trumpet is an amazingly versatile instrument and can be played in just about any genre of music. It is an easy instrument to start. All you have to do is make a buzzing noise with your lips and blow into the trumpet and you have made a sound. The hard part is becoming good at it, and that takes hard work and dedication. Two years ago, the world-famous trumpeter Haken Hardenberger came to Perth to perform with WASO. Growing up listening to his CDs, I had to go to one of his workshops. The one thing I remember him describing was how much he practised in the basement of his house in Sweden. Every day he would practice like a “maniac”.  Okay so he is one of the best in the world, but if you really want to discover what the trumpet can do. You just have to play. instrument, I used to try to mimic the songs that I was hearing by humming the melody and tapping the rhythms. I would tap any surface that I liked the sound of, and even developed a weird way of playing with my teeth (in such a way that, thankfully, didn’t require me to When I was about 10 years old, I finally got to play all of these rhythms on a REAL drum kit. I was in awe of the power that came from the sound and found that I could happily play around for hours at a time. I’d found my favourite way of materialising the beats that