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Our wonderful piano/voice teacher, Danielle Crook, was featured this month in Martha Stewart's Weddings Magazine as a French Singer performing for a very upscale French Themed Wedding in Los Angeles at the Langham Hotel. She was hired through Rossi Music a sister company to Los Angeles Music Teachers. "Danielle is not only one of our outstanding voice teachers, but she's also a wonderful vocalist who has the ability to sing in 13 languages. That could be a Guinness world record!", jokes Grammy Winner, Rick Rossi, who manages both music based businesses. "I knew Danielle was an outstanding musician and vocalist since hiring her as a piano and voice teacher a few years ago. Then months later, after seeing the comments that were coming directly from her students and reading the Google reviews her students were leaving for her, confirmed that she was quite special!!"

"Recognizing her unique ability as a singer came a bit later, when we were discussing music and bands and she told me that she could sing in 13 languages. That immediately got my attention because in 2011, I had created a French and International Band called "Esperanto" that made an album of International music. At that time we were getting quite a few bookings at events, festivals and various kinds of dinner parties and even weddings! Right at our peak of success we lost our singer because she needed to move back east to help her aging mother. Ever since that time we were unable to find an adequate replacement because of all the languages she was able to sing. So when Danielle mentioned her ability to sing in many languages and the love she had for French Music and International music, I began to start marketing for our French Band again and this French Themed Wedding became her very first event with Rossi Music. Fortunately, we were lucky enough to be able to get some video footage and here's a sample of her singing at the event. https://youtu.be/Iiis5wTs-bk. This was a beautiful wedding filled with the best of everything, beautiful ballroom, amazing floral designs and for entertainment, the French music of Danielle and the band as well as French dancers who put on two 20 minute shows in between the sets of the french music."
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As a result, Martha Stewart Weddings asked to feature the French Themed Wedding in her magazine. Click the link below to see the photos from the event. 
https://www.marthastewart.com/8131884/french-inspired-ballroom-wedding-california-kurt-boomer?slide=7e28f1b6-c30e-4f5e-913d-3cdfba4136c5#7e28f1b6-c30e-4f5e-913d-3cdfba4136c5

You can check more out at Rossi Music French International Event Bands for Hire or visit our Los Angeles Music Teachers website for more information on how you can take piano or voice lessons with Danielle. 

Our band, Paris Cafe is a tasteful marriage of French Chanson, jazz swing music of the American Songbook and more contemporary pop featuring French Chanteuse Danielle. 
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With a variety of repertoire of vintage American standards, French jazz songs and mixed with some contemporary current Top 40, Paris Cafe is a unique alliance between the old world and the new, French charm,   vintage Hollywood glam and soulful pop and R&B. With world class singers and musicians, Paris Cafe gathers all the ingredients to make it hot as well as to keep you dancing!!

Check out more at www.Rossimusic.biz or call us at 818-902-1233. We're the specialists for connecting the best unique artists with the right events. We serve all of southern california including, Los Angeles, Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel, Malibu, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Santa Barbara, Orange County, San Diego, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Brentwood, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Marina del Rey, Irvine, Pacific Palisades, Westlake Village, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, Bel Air, Westwood, Century City, Venice, Long Beach, San Fernando Valley, Anaheim, Newport Coast, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, San Clemente, Costa Mesa, Orange, La Habra, Century City, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, Valencia, Coronado, Rancho Santa Fe, Carlsbad, La Jolla.  We specialize in Vintage and contemporary Jazz Bands, Swing Big Bands, Smooth Jazz, French Jazz Quartets, French Lounge Music, Pink Martini Cover Bands, World Music, and Electric String Quartets with Tracks.

If you're interested in taking music lessons on Piano, Guitar, Voice, Violin, Drums, Bass, Cello or Woodwinds check out our website at www.losangelesmusicteachers.com or call us at 818-209-2620

You have probably heard many times that the trumpet is one of the most difficult instruments to play. Maybe you play the saxophone and you’re wondering where the famous trumpet ego comes from, or maybe you’re thinking about learning the trumpet. Either way, there’s something to what people say about it, let’s learn why. 

The trumpet is considered a difficult instrument because the sound of the trumpet is reliant on the delicate embouchure. The brass embouchure, particularly the trumpet embouchure, must be capable of producing frequencies upwards of 1000 HZ.

Who Makes The SoundMusic is practically the same as vibration. The way sound works is vibrating air (or another medium… bone-induction headphones prove that.).
The vibration from an instrument vibrates the air which in turn vibrates our ear drum which in turn vibrates our inner ear’s cochlea which in turn excites nerves that our brain can understand. 
For a trumpet to make sound, the trumpet player’s lips must produce the vibration.
It helps to understand the challenge here if we compare what is required of a trumpet player vs. other instruments. 

• For a saxophone or clarinet player, the player’s breath moves a wooden reed back and forth.  The reed is what is vibrating back and forth to create the sound
• For a flute player, their breath causes wind oscillation within the instrument, and so the flute player controls the pitch by wind speed. This is true of concert flutes and other flutes like the recorder or the tin whistle. 
• A piano player presses a key and the piano strikes a string with a hammer which produces the sound
• A guitar player plucks a string which vibrates and produces the sound
• A drummer strikes a taut drum head and the vibrating drum head vibrates the air which produces the sound
• A melodica player breathes through an aperture and presses a key to pass through tuned reeds to make the sound
• A harmonica player works very similarly to a melodica.  The player blows through an aperture which vibrates a reed which makes the sound

In all these examples, and most examples of other instruments, the player provides the power through wind or through kinetic energy (like pressing a key on a piano) which vibrates something else which produces the sound.

• Trumpet: F#3-D6 (And higher. You will see High Gs in music now and again
• Trombone: E2-F5
• Tuba: D1-F4

Does lower mean easier to play necessarily? Definitely not. Low instruments have their own challenges, particularly with breath support.

Again, so what? Why are higher notes hard to play?

As you play higher, the trumpet player has to buzz higher frequencies. To play High C, the trumpet player has to buzz around 1046 times per second! 

To be able to play this frequency takes an enormous amount of practice. In fact, culturally, being able to “hit the high notes” is a huge deal for many trumpet player. 

The embouchure is so complicated that there are entire books and theories written specifically for training an embouchure. Not all experts agree on the best system for developing an embouchure because there are so many complicating factors.  Everybody’s mouth and lip configurations (shape of mouth, placement of teeth, etc) are different. Therefore, everyone’s embouchure and embouchure development is different. 

What further complicates matters is that many trumpet players in K-12 school programs do not get formal embouchure training, and so get bad habits.

This can lead to several problems. 

• Plateaus where the player never can get above a certain note no matter how much they practice. 
• Endurance problems where the player can’t effectively play for more than an hour, and loses any range they had.
• Poor form leads to applying too much pressure from the trumpet to the lips causing pain and even embouchure damage.
• Fuzzy or Sloppy Sound. Embouchure problems can lead to poor sound.

​All this is to underscore that the trumpet embouchure is difficult and tricky enough to get the hang of that if you don’t learn decent enough technique you could struggle for months or even years with endurance, good tone, and range. 
Although it’s not unusual to learn to play around 15 notes for a beginner with 6 months, it can take much longer to play with good tone.

Embouchure Shelf LifePerhaps one of the more unfortunate aspects of the embouchure is that if you don’t use it, you lose it. Very similar to athletic conditioning–advanced trumpet technique (or chops as they call them) will be lost quickly if you are not continuously practicing.  Some experts experience a noticeable difference even after only a day or two of not practicing.

But even with the trumpet being so difficult to learn, it is majorly worth it! Would recommend looking into finding a great teacher like ours to help you push past these obstacles and become an amazing Trumpet player.