Slotting Secrets
Build reliable trumpet technique from the harmonic series.
Slotting Secrets is a focused method for trumpet players who want greater control, consistency, and confidence across their range. By working directly with the natural harmonic series, this approach helps clarify how the instrument actually responds.
Building reliable range and flexibility
Strengthening coordination across registers
Improving tone consistency
Developing confidence through understanding, not force
About this course
The Slotting Secrets course and eBook guide players step by step from the fundamental through the 16th partial, combining written exercises with video explanations from Omar Lateef and Kris Johnson. Ideal for players who benefit from seeing, hearing, and applying concepts together.
About Omar Lateef
Omar Lateef is a professional trumpeter and educator whose work bridges classical and jazz performance. He serves on the faculty at Florida International University, where he teaches trumpet, directs the University Brass Choir, and coordinates the Winds, Brass, and Percussion area.
As a performer, Omar has appeared in concert tours and Broadway productions, collaborating with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Kurt Elling, Julie Andrews, and Arturo Sandoval. As a teacher, he is deeply invested in helping students build reliable technique, musical confidence, and long-term sustainability in their playing, with many of his students going on to successful careers in performance and academia.
About Kris Johnson
My teaching approach is shaped by experience, not shortcuts. I know what it feels like to practice hard, care deeply about the music, and still feel stuck, because I’ve been there.
Over time, I learned how to teach in a way that respects different learning styles and different nervous systems. Some musicians need to see ideas clearly. Some need to hear them in context. Some need to feel them physically. Most need a thoughtful combination of these things.
Everything I create is designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and care.