If you want to win your All-Region trumpet audition, then you need something to give you the edge.  The All-Region Trumpet Boot Camp can do that for you.  This four-day program  replaces the need to practice during the most crucial week before the auditions.  Instead of doing what you always do, your daily practice time will be replaced by an intensive coaching session that will focus your efforts to produce a lean, mean, highly polished audition performance.

 All-Region Trumpet Boot Camp:
23, 24, 25 & 27 Nov 2009

Personal trainer & coach: Eddie Lewis 

Won’t boot camp be just like attending daily lessons?

No.  The boot camp session will place the emphasis on the proper use of repetition and methodology. During lessons, the implementation of practice techniques is abbreviated to ensure the session can accommodate this and the other activities required during a lesson.  During the boot camp sessions, correct practice techniques will be used in their full form: no short-cuts.

But what if I already devote a lot of time to daily practice?  Surely I don’t need boot camp?

Boot camp isn’t just about getting you in the best possible shape to win your audition.  There are long-term benefits to attending boot camp.  During boot camp, the student will be trained in EXACTLY how winners practice.

Many students assume that spending a lot of time in practice, is time well-spent.  Unfortunately, experience has shown that students who practice incorrectly are wasting time and are required to spend vast amounts of time trying to fix what they practiced incorrectly. By being coached and trained to practice correctly, these students guarantee that future time investments in practice are good investments.

Isn’t the boot camp too close to the audition date to be of any help to me?

The timing of this boot camp is significant.  During the four hours of intensive and highly focused coaching, it is possible to take a student from level two (which would be an ideal starting point for the serious student) to level four (the level of winners).  Many students work hard to reach level two, but settle at this level and never develop any further before the audition.  Boot camp is for someone who has reached level two, but is ready to step up to level three or even level four.  The All-Region Trumpet Boot Camp is for those students who have practiced to at least level two, and are now ready to have a personal trainer coach them through level three and possibly even level four (depending on their entry level at the start of the boot camp).

For those who are unfamiliar with practice levels, they are listed below:

Level 1: Learning the music
This involves learning the notes and rhythms - the basic mechanics of the music.

Level 2: Connecting the sections
This is done by repeating the music, in its entirety, many times at a slow tempo - 75% tempo.

Level 3: Fixing the little problems
This is the polishing stage. For students who practice correctly, this is the most time consuming stage as smaller problems are often the most difficult to correct.

Level 4: Learning to express oneself through the music
At this stage, a student will no longer think of notes and mechanics, but actually think more emotionally and expressively.

Take advantage of this EXCLUSIVE opportunity receive intensive, one-to-one coaching in preparation for the All-Region Trumpet auditions:

ONLY seven participants can be accommodated so register early to secure your place in the All-Region Trumpet Boot Camp for 2009.

Regular registration: from 13 July 2009
Regular camp fee: $260

Late registration: from 1 Oct 2009
Late camp fee: $300

Last-minute registration: from 1 Nov 2009
Late camp fee: $330


All-Region Boot Camp: 23, 24, 25 & 27 Nov 2009
(Camp fee includes personalized coaching (provided by trumpet instructor, Eddie Lewis) for ONE hour each day of the camp. Session times will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.)

Register to receive INTENSIVE, one-to-one coaching in preparation for the All-Region auditions.  Online registration is now open.