A neighbor of mine in Boise Idaho used to be in a Mariachi band. ( He is in his 80s ) I asked him if he wanted to play as we stood chatting outside. Sí, como no? He said.
As soon as he made a note come out- it was vibrato. Every note, every time....that's how Mariachi bands roll. Very rapid vibrato. Not for everyone. I silently got a kick out of it but didn’t want him to stop. He hadn’t played for 15 yrs, too. Sadly he is now in the Veteran's home and doesn’t remember me any more.
Music is when a child says, "I hear music"
We, on the other hand are so removed from the simplistic
Innocence of a child that we can’t even figure out what it is any longer.
Try to forget everything the world tries to tell us and let music be what you want it to be. Let everyone else fight and bicker about it.
@J-Jericho said in A little humour:
@BigDub said in A little humour:
@J-Jericho said in A little humour:
@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:
Ahhh... a picture of my ancestors!
But it was an unhappy ending for them. The Jericho people, that is......
Not much humor to be found in some aspects of Caananite culture, to be sure. The concept of trumpets playing a part in effecting conquest over evil can be considered a positive thing, can it not?
Oh, yes, indeed.
I was, of course, spinning a little humor on the fact that those walls and towers depicted in the background are almost definitely supposed to be the walls of Jericho....no harm intended, J.J.
But the words added to that classic etching were unbelievably clever, for us blowers. And that is our goal, to at least take the paint off the walls, if not take them down.
When I sing, vibrato is involuntary. To not have vibrato while singing takes a great deal of concentration. When I play trumpet it is almost always intentional and I have to make it happen in various ways.
@georgeb said in Here's something I recorded:
Great work Wayne Mathisen, and all the other Waynes that worked with you in playing one of my favorite marches.
And I might add, a very ambitious project.George
Thanks, George. You can only imagine. What an unruly bunch they were. It was all I could do to keep them under control!
Baseball?
I was born, bred, and raised, and diehard NY Mets fan!
As a kid growing up in upstate New York (Poughkeepsie) -- roughly 2 hours, including traffic, from NYC, we would always go down to Shea Stadium (now Citi Field) and see the Mets play ball. So many wonderful memories!
Edit (to make this trumpet related): Can you imagine playing trumpet in the stadium, out on the field at 2nd base or something? Or play like The Beatles did back in the day, and have so many screaming fans, that you can't even hear yourself play? LOL...
LET'S GO METS!!!
Me, too. Diehard Mets fan. They actually look like there is some Hope this year. Though I say this same thing every year around this time......I was originally a Yankee fan until my idol Mickey Mantle started to decline and in my young idealistic mind thought he was not hustling any more. I disgustedly turned to the Mets and was quite entertained by them. I had no expectations and they were met....pun intended. Now I am incurable. Help!
@Dr-GO said in Oder Deutsch?:
@BigDub said in Oder Deutsch?:
@Kehaulani said in Oder Deutsch?:
I speak some German - Scheiss egal.
Me, too. Farfegnuten.
Or constipation: Farfrompooten
Don’t try to impress us with the medical talk
@tjcombo said in A little humour:
@BigDub the trombone guys are way ahead of us...
Haha. Good one. As if the trombones could possibly be ahead of us on anything.
Last night during Band practice, the director said to the trumpet section, "can you be louder on that part?" Of course, I said. We can ALWAYS be louder!
I felt comfortable speaking for the group. I was the fastest to answer, too. Maybe that was it.
@Dr-GO said in LONG TONES:
@BigDub said in LONG TONES:
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Once again, this was Eugene Blee's exercises he developed to optimize his performance. He was the longest sitting principle trumpeter for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Exceeding in excess this is not. Give it a try. It is not excessive at all.
It takes very little warm up time to get through this exercise series, and if performed entirely in series, truly guarantees preparing the embouchure for a days worthy performance.
Look at the post I am quoting. "Without first doing these excesses"
Just messing with you. I was your editor in another TiMe.
)
This is the sound enhancing mute I will try to make. Just a rough conceptual sketch right now.
@dr-go said in Keying ~fingering:
LOOKING AT CUTE CHICK OUT IN THE AUDIENCE
Clearly he is a droid, though.
@Dr-GO said in Great Idea!:
@BigDub said in Great Idea!:
@administrator said in Great Idea!:
Currently, I'm the only moderator and I don't read enough posts to catch much of anything.
That was my problem trying to edit gmonady's posts on you know, TM. He had over 18,000. Whew. Too much for one person!
BUT that is why I paid you the BIG Dub-Bucks!
None of the retailers seem to honor the Big-Dub bucks, sadly.
@fels said in Community Band:
Our Community Band is performing on Sunday - Professional venue - program is below. A bit of a chop buster.
Coronation March - Tchaikovsky
Mambo - L Bernstein
Gershwin Tribute to Love
Raiders March - Williams
An American Elegy - Tichelli
Suite Francaise - Milhaud
Liberty Bell March - Sousa
The Lord of the Dance
Looks great.
Our program coming up in May looks like this.
The Town Crier March [1960] / Leonard B. Smith
Russian Sailor’s Dance from “The Red Poppy” [1927] / Reinhold Glière/Merle Isaac
Au Clair de la Lune [1926], John Anastasio on Solo Clarinet / Paul Jeanjean
World War I Medley [2017] / arr. Jari Villanueva
Pavanne from “2nd American Symphonette” [1938] / Morton Gould
Sea Songs [1983] / Thomas Knox
Sesqui-Centennial Exposition March* [1926] / John Philip Sousa
INTERMISSION
El Capitan March* [1896] / John Philip Sousa
Band of Brothers [2001] / Michael Kamen/Jerry Brubaker
Limehouse Blues [2016] / Philip Braham/John Anastasio
Oklahoma! [1943] / Richard Rodgers/R. R. Bennett
Humoresque on “Swanee” [1920] / George Gershwin/J. P. Sousa/Brion
Armed Forces Salute [1964] / Robert Cray
The Stars and Stripes Forever March* [1896] / John Philip Sousa
@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:
@BigDub
I didn’t mean to post this as a competition. To be honest with you, I never gave what I posted any thought until I saw the posts above mine and started doing the math. I then realized how ludicrous the pay was even at those times. Prior to my arrival to New Orleans I was a student for 21 years and considered those years in New Orleans as additional school experience. If asked of me, I would have some how paid for the experience. To actually be paid, although minimal, was great. Those were some of the best years of my life.
No worries, Steve. Believe me I was not the least offended. I really believe you did work cheap. Over the years, I have worked cheap, and never really made a lot of money at any time. But overall, I never wanted for more, never went hungry, and never felt deprived in any way. I passed on a promotion at one point, but it didn’t even come close to hearing my son tell me when he was a senior in HS that he didn’t think he could count on one hand how many games I ever missed seeing him play from t-ball all the way through high school. Bottom line, I am blessed beyond anything I could have asked for.
@ButchA said in Community Band:
Looking over various "set lists" from people, I have noticed that George's music is on par with The Shriners Band here in town. We are sort of a "community band" type of arrangement, but yet we're Shriners as well as Freemasons.
Here's a sample from our "set list" (Note: it is mostly marches, which --no offense-- can get rather tiring/annoying after a while. I mean, like, "another march? seriously?":
)
Alamo
Chimes of Liberty
The Saint's Hallelujah
Colonel Bogey
Covington Square
Battle of Midway
The Happy Wanderer
Allied Honor
Hoop-Dee-Doo
E Pluribus Unum
Gallant Marines
The Longest Day
The Footlifter
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Highlights from My Fair Lady
Highlights from Man Of La Mancha
Highlights from South Pacific
The Klaxon
......................................................................
As the new 2019 VP of the band, I am trying to persuade the "older guys" to lighten up a bit and have some fun. Let's play something more lively and more towards the jazzy Big Band type of sound. Enough with the marches already, sheesh...
I am pushing for us to get copies of:
It's Only A Paper Moon (full arrangement, not the basic HS jazz band setup).
Here's That Rainy Day (again - full arrangement, not the basic HS jazz band setup).
Looks plenty ambitious, Butch! Nice.
A man decides it’s about time he gives in and moves into a retirement home. He notices a woman staring at him as he gets settled in his room. Later, eating his meal he notices her again, just staring at him. She’s not even eating. Just sitting there. Everywhere he turns, there she is, staring. He finally can’t let this go any longer and decides to confront her.
"Excuse me, ma'am, but I couldn’t help but notice that you keep looking at me everywhere I seem to go"
"Oh, I'm so sorry, she said, I couldn’t help but notice you look so much like my third husband"
Now he felt a little bad for calling her on it like that, so he said, "How many husbands did you have?"
"Two"
@Dr-GO said in Easter Services:
THEN there was the question as to what to charge. I believe many on this forum may do this for gratis; however, the Union got me this gig and requires a contract and a 10% finder charge. So I looked all over the internet. I found a wide array of charges for Easter Services. The steepest was in NYC; however, I chose a more regional contract that came out of Illinois. I decided to use that fee recommendation, broken down between rehearsal fee, performance fee (fist 3 hours) and travel expenses. Here is the contract to give you an idea as to how this can be put together:
Hope all this is helpful to our readers, as for me, the first time arranging this (Songs and Fees) took a lot of time and research. So for those of our member venturing out for Easter, I am hoping this makes your Hippity a bit easier to Hop... I Hope!
For me, or rather us, ( Stone Hill Brass consisting 2 trumpets, two F horns, two Trombones ) we will be playing two Services, 9:30 and 11:10. We will be playing the Hymn, Christ The Lord is Risen Today, with congregation on the second and forth verse. I play an arpeggio kind of part on the C trumpet. Then the two trumpets play the Hallelujah Chorus, and the postlude will be Grand Choeur Dialogue with all of us playing with the organ. We have been working on that a lot. Hope it turns out well. Stone Hill Church of Princeton, non denominational fundamental Christian Church, is where this will take place, and where my wife and I attend every Sunday.
@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:
It’s been quiet so here it goes:
An Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, and German were watching a street magician. The magician realized that they couldn’t see him well so he stepped up on a high box. The magician said, “Can you see me now?”
They answered,
Yes
Oui
Si
Ja
You see, now, that there is funny. However, you must be fluid in 4 languages like myself to get it.
I bet you said to yourself, "what a moron, fluid?
It's supposed to be, fluent!"
Well, you should have said so.
@SSmith1226 said in Community Band:
I had an interesting experience this week. Several months ago I got accepted to the Florida “All Star Community Band”. It is made up of around 110 musicians from around fifty or more community bands from all over the state who are recommended by their local band directors. Every few years this band forms and performs at the State of Florida Band Directors Conference. In general, each player in the band comes from the first or second seat in their home band’s section. Through attrition, not talent, I as a three and a half year comeback player, sit in the second seat of the first trumpet section of my home band. Most of the participsnts have extended experience and are great musicians. Each piece played is chosen and conducted by different “all star” conductors from around the state.
We all got together for the first time Monday afternoon and evening. Our rehearsal lasted over 5 hours.
At 8:15 am Tuesday we met again and rehearsed until 5:00 pm with a 1 hr lunch break.
Wednesday we met at 8:15 am again and rehearsed until 12 noon including a dress rehearsal from 11:00 to 12:00. At 3:30 we started our 1 hr concert. By the start of the concert, my lip was like a piece of wood. Fortunately I was one of four people assigned second cornet / trumpet, but never the less the pieces were quite challenging.
Out of curiosity, have any of you experienced such intense sessions culminating in a high profile, high level performance without major rest? If so, was this at an amateur level, or professional level. Is this what a professional band or orchestra goes through routinely, or is this an exception. I felt very sorry for the first trumpet players, but somehow they held up and did a great job. I certainly had my problems often times could be heard playing unison with the trombones, or blowing occlusal air balls.
Never the less it was a challenging but great experience. If given the opportunity, I would do it again.
@SSmith1226 said in Community Band:
I had an interesting experience this week. Several months ago I got accepted to the Florida “All Star Community Band”. It is made up of around 110 musicians from around fifty or more community bands from all over the state who are recommended by their local band directors. Every few years this band forms and performs at the State of Florida Band Directors Conference. In general, each player in the band comes from the first or second seat in their home band’s section. Through attrition, not talent, I as a three and a half year comeback player, sit in the second seat of the first trumpet section of my home band. Most of the participsnts have extended experience and are great musicians. Each piece played is chosen and conducted by different “all star” conductors from around the state.
We all got together for the first time Monday afternoon and evening. Our rehearsal lasted over 5 hours.
At 8:15 am Tuesday we met again and rehearsed until 5:00 pm with a 1 hr lunch break.
Wednesday we met at 8:15 am again and rehearsed until 12 noon including a dress rehearsal from 11:00 to 12:00. At 3:30 we started our 1 hr concert. By the start of the concert, my lip was like a piece of wood. Fortunately I was one of four people assigned second cornet / trumpet, but never the less the pieces were quite challenging.
Out of curiosity, have any of you experienced such intense sessions culminating in a high profile, high level performance without major rest? If so, was this at an amateur level, or professional level. Is this what a professional band or orchestra goes through routinely, or is this an exception. I felt very sorry for the first trumpet players, but somehow they held up and did a great job. I certainly had my problems often times could be heard playing unison with the trombones, or blowing occlusal air balls.
Never the less it was a challenging but great experience. If given the opportunity, I would do it again.
This is beyond anything I could imagine. Almost cruel and unusual punishment. The closest thing to that I ever experienced was my High School Band camp at the close of summer vacation. I pretty much set myself up for disaster, too, I admit, because I failed to keep my chops up in preparation for what I knew was in store. Marching Band practice every morning, 2 hrs, free time, lunch, more marching band, free time, supper, concert band practice in the evening, 90 minutes. My chops were like hamburger left on the barbecue too long. Then wake up the next morning to repeat the process!
How many times can you tear a sheet of paper in half?
Once. After that it would be quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc.
How many letters are there in the word, Deed?
Two. Well, the other two are repeats
