Every brass player dreams of having a wide register and unlimited endurance. Many believe that the secret behind a good upper register must be a trick of some kind, or at least some unachievable natural talent. On some rare occasions this may be the case. However, more often acquiring a great upper register, fine quality of tone and endurance mean plenty of exercise, careful repetition after repetition and lots of hard work. If we had a mileometer like cars do to measure our practise time, we wo...