Video Exchange Lessons
I am officially announcing something new to my offerings here. These are video exchange lessons.
My fee for a one hour private lessons is $80. That is what a video exchange package will cost. However, in the end, you will get at least if not more quality instruction time. Here is how it works.
You prepare a ten minute video for me based on some email exchanges outlining what it is you’d like to work on. I’ll review your video and prepare a video/demo response and return that to you. We do a total of four exchanges. This will result in what would be the equivalent of 80 minutes during a live lesson.
The advantages of this over like webacam lessons is timing. We both can manage these around our individual schedules. There is less chit chat distracting from the business at hand: helping you develop more from your trumpet experience. It also completely eliminates the time shift issues from very long distance to overseas distance learning.
If this is something you’d like to explore, please contact me at nicn@nickdrozdoff.com. The initial explorations of this process with some students already have yielded excellent results.
I hope to be working with many of you soon!
Sincerely,
Nick Drozdoff
“How To Practice” Is Now Available As An iBook!
My book, “How To Practice” is now available in interactive form as an iBook at the iBook Store at Apple. In addition to the text, it includes over 40 minutes of embedded video, a couple of media files and four fully functional Keynote/Powerpoint Files. This version of the book is a bit like having a master class in the palm of your hand on your iPad.
Be sure to read the description and look at the sample file when you go to the iBook Store. If it looks like somehting you’d be interested in, be sure to start the DL to your iPad at night and it will be waiting for you in the AM. The file size is quite big – a little over 1.7 Gb.
I sincerely hope this version of the book will you you find your own better way to a richer trumpeting experience.
ND
Read moreNEWS FLASH!!! I AM SELLING MY WAYNE TANABE CHICAGO BRASSWORKS MODEL GSC Bb TRUMPET IN BRIGHT GOLD PLATE!
This is just out. I am selling my Chicago Brassworks model GSC Bb trumpet in bright gold plate with a Walt Johnson single trumpet flight case. It is in excellent condition. The serial number is 004! Wayne personally attended to the construction of this honr for me personally. There are no vanity engravings on it – just the Chicago Brassworks name and model plus the serial number on the valve block.
I used this horn very carefully for a couple of years and then retired it as a collectors item when Wayne left Chicago to go to NYC and Yamaha.
The asking price is $4750 INCLUDING shipping in the continental US. Overseas shipping will coast a little bit more, depending on the rates.
Read moreLive Online Webcam Lessons Are BACK!
I tried these for a while a couple of years back and found the results to be sketchy. However, with my new Macbook Pro I am finding that the technology has progressed to the point that I am willing to go back to this.
Initially I’ll use Skype. I already have an account there. I’ll also be investigating Facetime for the same function.
My lesson rates have changed recently. I now charge $80 per hour lesson, but I will go in half hour increments with a minimum of a half hour lesson.
Read moreAd Hoc Clinics-No Upfront Expenditure
This post is a reminder about my ad hoc clinics. These are still available to ANYONE and there is NO UPFRONT CHARGE to anyone. I take the risk. All I ask of anyone who would like me to come to their location to do one is that they talk it up with EVERYONE they can so that we can expect reasonably good attendance. That’s it!
Here is how it works. If we arrange to do one of these, I will arrive a day before if the location is remote and too far for me to drive. I’ll make all the arrangements for my accommodations and pay out of my pocket. You will need to help me find a location at which I can DO the clinic. It would be preferable if I didn’t have to pay a room rental, if possible. Possibilities would be school band rooms, a rec room at a church or a community center or a music store (as an aside, the music store will draw some more customers that day!). We’ll arrange the time and promote the heck out it on the internet.
Read moreNick Drozdoff Is Now A Getzen Artist
Folks, as of now I am officially a Getzen artist. While I still have a great deal of affection for the New York Trumpet Company, I am now supporting the work of a fine multigenarational family corporation right here in the Midwest.
The NYTC horns are fine instruments and my switching to Getzen is to in no way imply that I think the NYTC horns are bad. They are excellent, and I’ll continue to say so to all who would ask. My videos in which I use the NYTC horns will stay up. It would be dishonest to imply that I didn’t play them. I did. However, I am moving onto Getzen now and for some important reasons.
Read moreDrozdoff Signature Series Mouthpieces by Wedge
Well, they were at the Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic, but the series is now complete.
This is the Drozdoff Signature series of trumpet mouthpieces by Dave Harrison of the Wedge Mouthpiece Company in Van Couver, British Columbia. Here is a list of what is available.
Read moreWhat Some Folks Are Saying About Drozdoff Clinic/Concerts:
Here are comments from folks wh have recently had Drozdoff as a soloist/clinician:
From Patrick Schwan of Minot, North Dakota:
Yes, we had a great time at the “Magic City Jazz Festival”. Nick was outstanding working with our students. He was very patient and kind with them, yet shared many ideas for improvement. He is obviously very knowledgeable about jazz styles and the trumpet, but he is also exceptional at conveying that knowledge to others. What a treat for me to play in “the Swing Band of Minot” that backed up Nick on his feature tunes. He received a standing ovation for his rendition of “Birdland”, and again for ‘Bugle Call Rag”. If any of you are in a position to hire clinicians for your festival, you won’t go wrong hiring Nick. I highly recommend him! –>Pat Schwan
Read more“A Curious Yellow” Picked as the Best Jazz Piece of 2007 by WAMIA
Australian composer, Adrian Kelly, wrote “A Curious Yellow” for his CD, “Intercontinental Drift.” It is composed for string quartet and specifically Nick Drozdoff’s flugelhorn work.
Recently this piece won the Western Australian Music Industry Association Award as the best jazz piece of 2007. This is truly an intercontinental project. The original CD tracks were recorded in Perth and the trumpet parts were recorded in Saratoga, New York. However, Drozdoff recorded his part on Curious Yellow upon returning to Chicago.
You can hear the entire piece by going to the little media player at the top of the page and using the little pull down window to the right side of it to select “Curious Yellow.”
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