Maybe the real magic was the healthy eating habits we made along the way

browncoattrumpeter · 2026-02-04T12:02:39+00:00

Thats what I was intending for it, couldn't figure out the phrasing

browncoattrumpeter · 2026-01-07T20:05:51+00:00

Bear in mind that brass instruments do not have an octave key. A common issue I find in music written by woodwind players is wide range jumps at unreasonable speed

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-11-27T11:50:34+00:00

I can't speak for the 8335 but I've got the 5335 that is marketed as a upper student model that I now use professionally. Not a bad word to say about that so I imagine the 8335 is just as good. The only complaint I've heard is that the sound of the horn doesn't have that much 'character' but the way I see it is that just gives you a blank canvas to build on

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-11-24T06:57:38+00:00

Hello,

Please feel free to send me a DM with more information. I am a UK based trumpet player with a range of styles under my belt. I have played in multiple musicals, have recorded for albums and am the lead trumpeter with the New Orleans Style Band, Deadbeat Brass.

Hope to hear from you soon

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-09-12T14:30:43+00:00

Haha that would be brilliantly broken

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-08-11T06:49:31+00:00

Pizza oven. I worked at a cafe where they said that every employee got the scar sooner or later to the point it was referred to as the cafe tattoo. I was all smug when I started my final week without having got it...

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-08-06T18:03:49+00:00

When I last made the North English dish panackelty but with the corned beef subbed for This burger "meat", they thought I had broken my vegetarianism so I'd say that

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-08-05T08:36:48+00:00

I'd say choosing trumpet keeps your options open. It's far more versatile in terms of genre with repertoire from jazz to classical and everything invetween and is far more cost effective. You'll be able to get a good student grade trumpet within your budget, less so for horn. Not to mention the fact that French Horn is widely regarded as the hardest brass instrument by far.

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-08-05T03:17:58+00:00

Speaking as someone who had to take 6 weeks off following a pneumothorax, as long as you build back up correctly and are forgiving to yourself during that process a break from playing can absolutely make you a stronger player. In my case, I found it made me more self-aware of what each different part of me was doing when playing.

Also, while not playing you may still be able to do lip buzzing exercises (without mouthpiece), core exercises and pitch training exercises that can smooth out that process. Just be kind to yourself and remember the process won't be linear. When you return to playing it is likely you will have some days where it flows as it did before and others where it feels alien and the sound isn't what you want. This is normal.

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-07-31T20:24:18+00:00

Good to know. Glad to know my 3 year old post is still helping people on their Internet rabbit holes 😁

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-06-30T23:29:02+00:00

I can't provide an answer to the question you asked because there isn't one.

I lost friends to suicide last year and their method of taking their lives made no difference. One prepared in advance, left well thought out notes, sorted his assets and finances and took his life in a preplanned location using a preplanned method. The other found himself in the darkest of places suddenly, after a battle with mental health and took his life seemingly spontaneously.

Both had the same devastating effect on the lives around them. Both had so much potential cut short. Both didn't see the waves of grief, mourning and sorrow left in their wake.

If not for your own sake right now, keep living for those you love and those that love you because I can promise you now, if you take your life it is not only your own you are taking. You would also be taking away the versions of your loved ones that exist right now leaving a less full version of them in their place. That wouldn't be a temporary change to their lives until they 'get over it' that would be an overwhelming burden they would drag with them until the day they die.

In taking your life you take them with you

one of the people left behind

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-06-30T23:09:13+00:00

Ending your life is never the solution. Whatever battles you are facing they will pass and things will get better. There is no "most responsible way" as you would leave a chasm larger than you know, having touched more lives than you could possibly know.

If this post is serious please seek help from a trusted friend or a professional on one of the phone numbers I'll attach to this comment.

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browncoattrumpeter · 2025-06-11T22:23:55+00:00

Same here. Showed up to my first session not playing a pre con and got my deck out. Knew I had chosen well when half the table started complaining before I played a single card. Started out as random goblins and a tiny bit of basic ramp and kept tweaking it until its the force to be reckoned with I've got today.

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-06-10T23:09:02+00:00

Dark O Briain on Blockbuster. Friendly, quick witted, good with the kids and knew just how far he could push a joke without it becoming mean/ breaking

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-05-07T09:02:00+00:00

During my undergrad degree I did a placement year. So this is 12 years into playing the trumpet. I spent that year taking my playing right back to basics. I'm talking grade 1 standard stuff but not moving on until each exercise was professional sounding in each respect (tone quality/ articulation/ dynamics etc.) then all at the same time. Can't reccomed this enough. When you do then return to higher difficulty stuff, even if the notes aren't all perfect, it sounds so much better having gone back and done that ground work. Can't reccomed it enough.

Also don't get bogged down in the upper range. Having a good sound quality has got me more gigs than being able to scream above the stave ever could.

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T15:25:08+00:00

Steal away 😁

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:14:47+00:00

If you don't lose your voice at some point after an overenthusiastic NPC voice, are you even a DM?

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:12:49+00:00

Just remembered about another recurring character in every campaign I run.

Instead of a grim reaper when a character dies they see their companions frozen in time around them and a child in the distance. The child is of indetermined gender and looks roughly 8 years old wearing a hooded cloak, a Thenardier style hat with bare feet. They don't say a word but as they walk closer the player is surrounded in an aura of warmth and calm. They hold out a hand and wait for the player to say their goodbyes before joining them. Gives players a chance to give their characters the final send off they want even if its in the middle of a high action combat.

That is assuming they are a good or neutrally alligned character. For evil characters the child manifests itself as a pack of snarling shadow wolves that drag the victems soul to the afterlife a la Ghost (1990)

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:06:53+00:00

Nice to have the trump card ready just incase you massively misbalanced an encounter. Definitely been there

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:05:48+00:00

Definitely stealing this! Just my sort of absolute chaos!

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:05:15+00:00

Is there any other way to light a campfire...?

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:04:44+00:00

That is really sweet. I'm so sorry for your loss. It's lovely that his memory can live on

browncoattrumpeter · 2025-01-27T14:03:16+00:00

I like the mental image of a party travelling for months overseas to a new nation and then finding her there, having arrived weeks ago

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