The Musical Trequartista

One of the most important practices brass musicians can take up is cleaning their horns. For more active players especially, this can have a major impact on the quality and efficiency of your playing as well as the longevity of your equipment. Over the course of my 4 years as an instrument technician I have cleaned thousands of instruments and dived deeply into the chemistry that drives it in order to understand how and why the best cleaning methods work. In this entry I outline what a good cleaning process is and some everyday practices that can add years to the life of your instrument and save you thousands of dollars in the long term.

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Elliott Godinez is a percussionist and educator who actively curates contemporary music. He founded the Godinez Percussion School in order to provide percussion equipment and lessons to students in inner city Chicago, and he recently premiered his recording my new work "In the Dark Blue Sky You Keep" for Glockenspiel for Electronics.

In this episode we discuss sustainability, commissioning new works, collaborating with artists, and how he pursues excellence so relentlessly.

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Other than maybe “sustainability is king” there’s a good chance that anyone that has ever spoken to me about fitness would say that “train in volume” is my mantra. This philosophy shaped my fitness journey, has impacted nearly every aspect of my life, and proves to me time and time again that it is the best method for building sustainable progress. In this entry I go in-depth to explain training in volume and then share the story that proved to me that it is the optimal training experience.

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In this episode I break down my thoughts on the Euro 2020 group stages, what teams I like, predict semifinalists, and give some insight on why I think England will lose.

All of us have important parts of our life that we aren’t willing to compromise on. What they are and how you choose to prioritize them is different for everyone. In this entry I break down more specifically what non-negotiable are, how they can serve us, and some shortcomings I find many folks fall into.

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