Finally there is assistance for troubled trumpet instructors. We all have been faced with this situation from time to time; the student comes to his/her lesson ill prepared and begins with pleading excuses for not having their lesson learned. One such student actually sat down and pretended to cry. He was defiantly my least favorite student. Some give stories such as “I lost my music yesterday after practicing” when in reality I found their music still on my music stand where they had left it the previous week. In honor of all of us who have been bombarded with creative,…