Danny Reding

Several years ago, I was in the middle of a trumpet lesson with the best teacher I ever had. At one point he paused and said, "Danny, you don't have a musical problem, you have a mental problem." Before I could thank him for that observation he continued with this, "Performance always follows our concept. You'll never play better than you think. Unless you address your concept of how you should sound, you'll never do anything more than play the same pieces in the same way wit