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Trumpet Soloist & Composer

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Posted on April 12, 2025May 4, 2025 by JC Heisler

Mistakes

Do not practice in order to avoid mistakes.

In doing this, you will make avoidance and anxiety a performance habit; then they will become part of your aesthetic.

Your weariness will always be arrested by hypotheticals and “someday” will never come.

Create. Do not analyze. Do not compare.

Act decisively with your essence and be arrested by the movements and flow of your attention, through the art form.

– JC Heisler

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  • Abandon & Constancy
  • Absolute Present
  • Aim of Education
  • Artist Statement
  • Be Quiet
  • Beguiling Music
  • By the Art Form
  • Don’t Torment Yourself
  • Experience
  • Find Your Own Way
  • For My Studio
  • Freedom is the Beginning
  • Healing Practice
  • Imitation is Not Art
  • Learning a discipline is not a matter of forcing yourself.
  • Lesson 1
  • Listen
  • Made in the Music
  • Melody
  • Mistakes
  • Music is Serious
  • Music is the “Teacher”
  • Music Within the Music
  • Musical Arrivals
  • Musical Arts
  • Non-Harmonic Tones “The Great Dramatists”
  • Perception, Thich Nhat Hahn
  • Practice Honor
  • Practice Noticing Yourself
  • Questions for: “Jazz Educators”
  • Rilke
  • Scraps of information have nothing to do with it…
  • T.S. Elliot
  • The Actual
  • The best procedure will depend on several factors…
  • The Happiest Encounter
  • The Reality of Literacy
  • Tone
  • Traditions
  • What is Tonic?
  • Where is the Artist to go?
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