Learn to play the baritone.

Becoming an instrumentalist

The baritone has a similar range as the trombone, but with a slightly more conical sound. Composers use it in the band, brass quintets, brass bands, marching bands, and as a solo instrument. I think it is the easiest of the brass instruments to play. The lips and facial muscles around them combine to form the embouchure. The embouchure and the vocal cords are connected, in that they receive signals from the same part of the brain, the part we use to communicate. This makes playing a brass instrument, like the baritone, very much like singing, or telling a story, at least from the brain’s point of view.