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"Victory begins in the morning," one of my mentors used to say. There truly is no more important time of each day than the hour or so immediately after waking up. It sets the tone and mood for the entire day. And if you take just a few minutes to begin your day with intention and purpose, you'll set yourself up for success the rest of the day! This podcast is intended to give the listener a little bit of structure to begin the day. It consists of a "mini-liturgy" in the tradition of the East ...

Brass Mastery... What does that even mean? There's always something to work on; something that can be done better. Some thing that wasn't perfect. And even if we achieve some level of success on a brass instrument - have we truly mastered it? It's always two steps forward, one step back, isn't it? making the idea of Brass Mastery truly elusive. But what if our instrument is not the thing we should be trying to master. Maybe there's more to Brass Mastery than playing higher, faster and louder ...