Fred Mills, for 24 years trumpeter with the Canadian Brass, was a lifelong proponent of the instrument, teaching and encouraging other trumpet players, however met. Brandon Craswell, a fellow teacher at University of Georgia, said, "If you were a trumpet player, you knew Fred Mills." Louise Baranger, former wife of Mills and a world-class trumpet player in her own right, has collected and edited Eight Favorite Studies that Mills devised in his teaching to help students perfect their playing.