My FAVORITE song of all time from the trumpet player that has most influenced me:
Posts made by Dr GO
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RE: Favorite Music
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RE: Flugel Thread
@N0isemaker said in Flugel Thread:
@Dr-GO ,
Way cool solo, nice job.
LarryThanks again. When you have Kenny Drew Jr as the piano player pumping out the chords behind you, it only takes you to higher places!
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RE: No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.
@N0isemaker said in No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.:
@Dr-GO ,
At our 2 hour Band Rehearsals I have no problem, either do I have a
problem at our concerts witch last a little short of rehearsal time
I figure the constant interuptions from the band director give a little
time to rest before starting up again.
However down the basement at practice time I'm fatigued after 30 min.
of constant practice.
Allways been that way for me.
LarryLarry, I agree. With breaks in between, this does not produce the same stain and demand on the muscle. But you are doing something differently during practice time. Likely you continue to play without interruption. This produces more strain, even though over a shorter time period. So the muscle feels this strain and shows it as fatigue.
I actually have used this situation to my advantage. I have developed a 2 hour aggressive practice routine and found by so doing, I have built up muscle units where I can make it through a four hour job with no problems.
Case in Point: I remember our big band rehearsal just this past Monday evening where our band leader was going over toward the end of the 2 hour rehearsal time on the chart "Nutville". We must have done the first 16 bars of the song at least a dozen times. This has in the written lead trumpet part the second A above staff that repeats several times. Our director even took a couple of the repeats in very slow time, at one point, holding each note out for four beats. I was able to resonate that second A above staff clear and full each time, thanks to my two hour rehearsal routine preparing my lip muscles for such stress. After that 2 hour band rehearsal, I then and ANOTHER 2 hour quintet rehearsal and made it through that with energy to spare. Preparing muscle in advance is the goal to such a performance success.
Here is the actual chart we played (from the Buddy Rich Band). I notice in this that the lead player only uses the E above staff. The part has in the score the second A option which is the one I have always used.:
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RE: No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.
@fels said in No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.:
Last December I had pneumonia and did not play for about three weeks. I followed "rehabilitation" routine for about a week and was soon back to where I was prior to the pneumonia.
Absolutely. As a clarification, building the muscle from scratch takes time, but once your there, getting it back does not take nearly as long. This is because in the prior state, you already developed the "motor units". Then it's just getting back the coordination of "muscle memory".
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RE: No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.
Prior to my retirement from my professorial gig at the medical school this past December, I taught muscle physiology in the first year medical student curriculum. We are at the mercy to the laws of physiology of muscle fiber development. So it takes about 2-6 weeks for muscle to adapt to new stress without damaging fibers. At the end of that 2-6 week span, one can add another 20% duration to the work out. So if 45 minutes is all you can do at this point, continue for several weeks at 45 minutes, than in that new week add 45 x 0.20 or about 10 minutes to the next week (55 minutes) and stay with that for another several weeks. Then advance another 20%. Keep doing this at these intervals until you reach your goal.
Let fatigue be your friend. When you loose control or start leaking air, step away from the horn for the day and start back at it tomorrow.
Let me know how this works out.
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RE: Exercises for super fast tonguing
Here is a unique tonguing exercise and perhaps with strength there is speed:
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RE: New Categories
@Curlydoc said in New Categories:
@Dr-GO How about good music for doctors? LOL
This music has a good message (and horns of course) but may be self defeating for we physicians:
By the way, I have transcribed the horn parts for this as I played it with a rock band "The Young Stallions" (composed of medical students non-the less). I was honored that they invited me as their faculty to be their horn section!
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RE: Martin Committee Club
While known as producing a dark sound, it can light up a room as well (as evidenced in Dizzy Gillespie's playing). Here is that 1946 Committee pictured above lighting up an original song, Aliyah, written by our Sax Player, Jack Novotny:
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RE: Martin Committee Club
@LaTrompeta said in Martin Committee Club:
...I played one once and almost got it. It was super slippery in its slots.
AND THAT is what I love about the Martin Committee:
My 1946 baby:
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RE: Welcome to TrumpetBoards!
Great to see we have most of our moderators from TM here... and rumor has it that Rowuk is circulating the site and laying low (as if Rowuk could actually fly under the radar so to speak) as he decides whether or not to add to the cause.
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RE: Flugel Thread
@SchilkeB6 said in Flugel Thread:
NIIICE!!!
Thanks so much for your support over the years, both on line and in live performance. This means so much to me.
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RE: Flugel Thread
@chelpres said in Flugel Thread:
@Dr-GO Nice solo, thank you
Thanks. The choice was to do it on the trumpet or my large bore flugel, and I chose to use the flugel to soften the upper range as I felt it fit more the mood of the song.
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RE: Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?
Horns are not necessarily a thing of the past. Here is a more contemporary recording of Louis Cole. Love his use of horns and his own more millennial approach to funk.
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RE: How many measures on a tank of air?
@trickg said in How many measures on a tank of air?:
Another way to think about it is like a vocal tune - sing through the lines and find where you would breathe normally if you were singing lyrics.
THIS is key. Music is about phrasing. So phase the notes as you would speak the passage. When I learn a tune, I will always read the words over the notes if included in the music for the most accurate phrasing, pauses and breathing. When you do this a lot, you know the standard musical notations of whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes sometimes just cannot "map out" as accurately the phrasing to which the spoken line was meant to express.
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RE: Flugel Thread
Now for my Getzen Eterna. Here is a pic of that horn and a recording from the Eddie Brookshire Quintet recording of "Surrendered Life" in which I am playing the solo on that cut with this horn.
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RE: Flugel Thread
My beloved flugelhorn the Kanstul 1526 (4 valve version)
AND a video of me playing the horn with one of the medical students I had the pleasure of teaching as a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University: -
Jazz Jams in Dayton
There are now 2 GREAT Jazz Jams to attend in Dayton:
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Jazz Central on Sunday nights from 8 pm-12 am and is the longest running jazz jam in the region (probably in all of Ohio);
From the Jazz Central Web Site:
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First Thursday of the Month Jazz Jam at Mila's Suburban Cafe. Every FIRST Thursday of the month, going from 7 pm-9pm. I have attended EVERY ONE. It is a new club, great acoustics and the featured rhythm section is the nucleus of the Eddie Brookshire Quintet, THE BEST small band ensemble in the region (as officially voted in the Dayton Daily News). Food is great, and man, love that draft beer made from coffee!!!
Mila's Facebook Page"
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New Categories
I recommend that the Web Designer open up a Category Titled: Good Medicine for Musicians
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RE: The Seven C's
The real secret to getting a double C on a regular basis... Buy a Harrelson Summit!
So.. not a secret anymore.