TrumpetBoards and a forum for Comeback Players, very timely!

When I packed my horns for long-term storage mid year 2000, I never planned to play again. A couple of weeks after my retirement in 2014, I got a call to play again from a fellow church member that I elected to accept. So many challenges right away, but now almost 5 years back, most have diminished greatly. Now at 68, with Alzheimer's in my family history, I find daily practice and regular public performances a great avenue to hopefully minimize that possibility. I have met many, many fellow musicians since I started playing again and I would count that as a very welcome development now that my working career has ended. Planning and executing a logical practice method is and has been a great physical and mental exercise as well! I'm working on a lot of fundamentals that I missed when I was younger and find that flexibility and endurance have improved greatly after practicing at least 1 1/2 hours everyday following a consistent 1/2 hour warm-up. As my playing ability steadily improves, I find my practice time growing continually benefiting from both aspects. I don't have any deadlines anymore, and that brings a certain "freedom" that now dominates my trumpet life! Very different from my previous trumpet experience and that is most welcome!

Glad to be here,

Mike

Luminox Navy Seals from Christmas of 1999! This has been my daily wear with rare exceptions ever since!

For the last 8 months or so I have been using the Bai Lin Lip Flexibilities as a part of my regular 1/2 hour warmup. I added the Tribute to William Adam book by Charles Davis and most recently downloaded the Scales Bootcamp by Josh Rogan and worked both into my technical practice. I volunteer at 2 local universities to fill the needs in a Symphony Orchestra and a Jazz Ensemble as well as weekly practice and performance with the Brass Ensemble at my church. I also perform with a Symphony Orchestra that plays 5 times a year around the state and perform regularly with the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra in my home city. This all translates into much regular practice and performance kinda like a full time job! Good thing that I'm retired from my day gig!!

@Tobylou8

71 degrees, Sunny in this part of the South! This is my good day ride:

This thread put me on a search of my safe and this is what I found, my old Seiko from last century! As I remember, it has a motion powered generator on board that provides battery power. After a lot of shaking, It was back in service again. I guess I'm gonna put my Luminox on vacation for a while and start wearing this again.

Many hanks Tobylou8! Simple!

Mike

Thanks for sharing this! Sunday Morning has just become even richer listening to this wonderful example of musical execution and accuracy!

Mike

@Tobylou8 said in No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.:

When I First started back, my warm-up was my practice session!

Same here! I was forced to take the last 6 days off of daily practice and rehearsal by a very nasty virus. Today is my first day back and I spent it all on a carefully designed warm-up routine from the Bai Lin Lip Flexibilities book. No pain on purpose! I plan to add time and exercises into tomorrows session and continue ramping up due to a heavy schedule this coming week; 4 rehearsals and a performance next Friday. Similar schedule next week as well. To very loosely quote Dirty Harry "A man's got to know his limitations...(or his performance will definitely let him know!)"

Mike

Congratulations!

@trickg said in Hal Blaine, Legendary Wrecking Crew Drummer, Has Passed:

I know you can get it on DVD, but it's also usually available on one of the streaming services - it was on Netflix for a good bit and I watched twice when it was.

One of my favourites watched many times! All Musicians are Brothers and Sisters. The greats never go away and can be heard in the voices of many!

@Dr-GO
That's a NICE Jeep! Hard to be incognito in that great color!

Mine started life as Standard yellow 20 years ago and begged for a change after that color became ubiquitous around here a few years later. The custom Cobalt Blue paint is not a Jeep color and gets lots of attention everyday even though the new paint is 14 years old! The top has been down for 10 years with just a bikini overhead. It is garage kept year round except on the clear weather days, keeping the mileage relatively low for an older version.

Just remember that JEEP stands for Just Empty Every Pocket like many thing for the easily charmed (Warning! don't shop aftermarket personalization).

Hope you take yours out topless often!

Mike

@lukarino

Thanks! I will get a copy into my library!

Mike

@Tobylou8

Agreed! That Receiver looks Bulletproof!!!

@Tobylou8

71 degrees, Sunny in this part of the South! This is my good day ride:

@lukarino

Could you reference the Vizzuti book title. I'm very interested!

Mike

@Dr-GO

Very happy to see this Category! I predict that it's going to get lots of mileage!

Mike

@Dr-GO

That's a beautiful set! Thanks for the lead regarding Tom Green and showcasing some of his work!

Mike

@administrator

Yes, as cbtj51 (I wanted to change the name pretty much right away, but couldn't)! I still visit TH often, but read a post by tobylou8 and then LaTrompeta's original post, followed the lead, and glad I did!

Mike

@Tobylou8 said in No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.:

When I First started back, my warm-up was my practice session!

Same here! I was forced to take the last 6 days off of daily practice and rehearsal by a very nasty virus. Today is my first day back and I spent it all on a carefully designed warm-up routine from the Bai Lin Lip Flexibilities book. No pain on purpose! I plan to add time and exercises into tomorrows session and continue ramping up due to a heavy schedule this coming week; 4 rehearsals and a performance next Friday. Similar schedule next week as well. To very loosely quote Dirty Harry "A man's got to know his limitations...(or his performance will definitely let him know!)"

Mike

@Dr-GO said in No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.:

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.

This is excellent advice!