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Mark "Doc" Shellhammer

I'm located in the Orlando area which is rich in entertainment opportunities. I'm the inventor of the RingMute dampening ring for Bb trumpet and the author of the S.P.I.T. Book (scales, patterns, inversions, triads) which is a new methodology for learning musical improvisation. I've been blessed to have played with many of the greats and still perform. I also teach trumpet and one of the hardest things is to get a student to understand that the trumpet does not have to be an instrument of acoustic destruction and there's more to trumpet than double high C. Learning to be lyrical, sensitive, and how to make the audience cry