Day 29 - 21/08

Day 25 - 17/08/07

Gainesville Rock City (Less Than Jake)

Day 24 - 16/08/07

7 Seconds of Love

Day 23 - 15/08

Day 22 - 14/08/07

Day 20 - 12/08

Day 18 - 10/08

No video today I'm afraid - I haven't had time to practice as I've been at the Natural History Museum all day. Check out my proper blog to find out more.

Day 17 - 09/08

Day 16 - 08/08/07

Day 15 - 07/08/07

Day 5 - 11

I'm in Paris on holiday from tomorrow for five days, and I can't take my trumpet with me. I mean, I would if I was good enough to busk, but alas, apparently they don't let shit musicians into the city of high culture.

Follow my Paris adventures on my proper blog: http://jamesomalley.co.uk

Day 4 - 27/07/07

Day 3 - 26/07/07

Day 2 - 25/07/07

Day 1 - 24/07/07

About

I have recently entered into a bet with my friend Fundar. He has played the trumpet for a number of years and back when we used to go to school, it was him who played The Last Post every year in the Remembrance Day assemblies.

It became a running joke between us that he couldn't actually play the Last Post very well, and so he has finally challenged me to a bet. He bet that I couldn't play the Last Post better than he could.

As I'm the sort of idiot who takes a stupid conversation in the pub too seriously, I've accepted his challenge, and so intend to learn the trumpet. Its why I've started a blog to track my progress. Assuming I don't give up tomorrow (likely) it should be pretty good - and I'll have plenty of video footage from which to make a training montage.

Hopefully, towards the end of August, we'll be having a big Last Post Off, in which we will go head to head in the trumpet equivalent of a rap battle, in order to determine who is the better player. This contest will be judged by our friend JD.

Tune in daily to see more videos of me failing to play the trumpet properly.