In this essay I present my creative input and development as a musician since fall 2020 and the compositions that has come out of it. Furthermore, I reflect on preparing these songs for my exam concert with my band Paradise League, as well as adding a trumpet synth called EVI (Electric Valve Instrument) to the instrumentation. Having experienced embouchure fatigue and a lack of stamina to follow through with longer sets, I am also pursuing a more effective technique. Hence, I analyze my practice methods and discuss my trumpet teachers, their tools and the effects thereof.

Through the combination of fundamental, soloistic and flexibility exercises I developed a more effortless playing style with a wider artistic expression. There were vast technical differences between the EVI and the trumpet. Despite some minor challengers when switching between the two instruments, the EVI opened up a different set of improvisational ideas, broadening my soloistic framework.