Posts made by BigDub

@Dr-Mark said in Set lists:

Hi BigDub,
Yes, I would talk to the director. Lugging a NYC phone book sized set list is just crazy. If he/she wants that level of freedom, the set list needs to be digitized so you guys can carry all the songs on an IPad. If it's on an iPad, there's ease of portability, ease for the director because the songs can be pulled up alphabetically, and once its digitized, everyone can have access in case some of the songs get lost or destroyed which frees up the person responsible for getting the sheet music to the people.

To be clear, it’s not the set list that is the problem. It’s the impulsive nature of the director. He gets a stray thought in the middle of the concert and decides we should do a number not part of the set list.
We have probably over a hundred possible tunes we could do, including many marches I have never played yet. That comes up during a concert at times as well.....let’s play so and so march.....I look over to my section mate, "never heard of it", he says, oh, I think we played that about ten years ago, once.

I am so glad you all are taking my art so seriously. But, really, don’t be so stuffy. Have a little fun with it. But don’t milk it to death.

And another thing. Every time I play for memory the notes I decide upon don't seem to match up with the notes everyone else in my section seem to be playing. What's wrong with those people?

@J-Jericho said in Set lists:

@BigDub Whatsamatter? You can't simultaneously paint with one hand and play trumpet with the other?

well, of course, but I'm not sure which would suffer the most. Probably a tie for last place!

This was certainly a challenge and I re worked it after several years because I didn't like the awkwardness of the cows. Now I am happy with it, though.

@J-Jericho said in Set lists:

Just do what members of Duke Ellington's orchestra did: memorize it all. Problem solved.

Were they volunteer amateur players as well? just wondering........

@Mike-Ansberry said in Set lists:

@BigDub I got an iPad a couple of weeks ago. I'm still working on getting everything into ForScore, but it helps a bunch. Now I don't have to carry 3 large books with me. Just an iPad. Okay, truth is I'm old and don't trust technology. I still keep the books in the car just in case something goes wrong with the iPad. But it is a lot easier anyway.

I am definitely working on that as well. My iPad is not the large one, so it is a bit hard to see the notes. It still definitely is the way to go.

Does your band get a set list? Our community band gets sent a playlist a couple of days ahead of a gig.
Great concept. We have heavy, thick folders with all the music we play, including 4 March Books, scales and warmups, etc. - you get the idea. It's like two New York City phone books. Ok, one.
So the set list is a real great thing. Now I can use a small folder with 14 or 15 songs, all in order. Size of a diner menu. Ready to play. E-Z. P-Z.
Perfect.
Except, impulsively, our director almost every gig, guaranteed, will pull another song out of thin air, and whisper to us, "let’s do National Emblem" or some other random song.
So much for the convenience of a small folder. We have to lug the fat folder. To be prepared for the slim chance. Of one change.
I need to see about talking some sense into somebody. Right? I could go for having maybe 3 or four alternate songs stuck in there just in case the mood strikes. Still a thin folder, still workable.

On another thread it is asked how many countries are represented on this site.
Similarly, here are the countries of folks who have liked and visited my FaceBook art page.
USA, Australia, Austria, Republic Of the Congo, Germany, United Kingdom, Gambia, South Korea, Norway, and New Zealand

@Kehaulani said in countries / states represented here?:

I'm not sure I understand the question but here are places lived. Does not include where I've just visited/worked.
Abilene, Lake Dallas, San Antonio, Dallas and Denton, Texas
Sioux City, Iowa
Omaha, Nebraska
Mt. Clemens, Michigan
Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan
Kailua, Hawai'i (Home)
Riverside, California
Ft. Meade and Tacoma Springs, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia
Macon, Georgia
Biloxi, Mississippi
Kaiserslautern and Otterbach, Germany

As far as work, most of the northern hemisphere, from Viet-Nam around to Russia, and Canada to Mexico.
. . . and places unknown, LOL.

Pretty sure the idea behind the post is: how many countries are being represented here on TrumpetBoards.
It has somehow morphed into places everyone has lived in their lifetime. I myself fell into that trap as well.

@administrator said in I've Got a Name:

So don’t be afraid to use it

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub
Wow, a definite departure....

Yeah, I think he was doing "pot" at the time!

Haha. You think? Well, that was a pot, and I did it.
I had a bit of a cowboy/western thing going on for a while.
I love the western art and the stories of the west.
The west has a particular light and color you’ll never see in New Jersey. Fortunately I am able to see and experience it first hand.

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub
Wow, a definite departure, but like a lot of your work, the images make me think, and wonder, is there a message here ?

Not really, but maybe we could have a cup of real brewed coffee sometime!

A different sort of thing for me.....very vintage, and cropped because it was part of a larger irrelevant area.

@Niner said in A little humour:

This joke stream...and judging by what happened at the old lamented site......will become probably the most posted string on this new board. And like the old site, a lot of guys make up jokes rather than steal them from someplace else. Some...without my pointing them out.... are really awful. This cries out for an adjustment to the "reputation" arrow that always points up. Really bad jokes should run the risk of getting a reputation vote that goes down.

I don’t always make them up. Sometimes I repeat bad ones, too.

@Niner said in A little humour:

Now this is pretty corny...for a corn soloist.

But it's from a hundred years ago. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1919-08-11/ed-1/seq-4/

Obviously one must play by ear, all the time. If, there was music written for it, those players from North Dakota, or Carolina would use treble clef, and of course, those in South Dakota and Carolina, bass clef, naturally.

Once again,I think it must be said. Common sense is not.
It should unofficially be declared an oxymoron.
I find very few people who possess common sense.
It seems to be going away with so many instructions, help lines, YouTube DIY videos, and on and on.
When I was a boy, the men could almost all build their own homes. Probably 85% of them.
Now maybe 10% of men could build their own home. And none of those men I was first referring to.......they are way too old now!

Ole ( the Minnesota Norwegian ) would sometimes need to have his wife Lena help him fix the car.
"Lena, I need to have you look at the blinkers and tell me if they vurk, ok?"
"Okay"
"Yust stand beck dere and tell me ven I try it. Ready?"
"Yah, I’m ready"
"Here, ve go, now tell me if the left one vorks"
"Yah-no-yah-no-yah-no............."

@Dr-Mark said in Marching Season and Triple Super C:

Hi BigDub,
But it's true, life itself reminds me daily that there is a big gap between educated and smart. I wish I had a quarter for every degreed person I've met that couldn't pour piss out of boot with the instructions on the heel. I have a feeling I'm not the only one that has experienced this.

I have to agree about that. My Dad would consistently make mincemeat out of highly “educated” people. He did not graduate from High School, went straight into WWll at 17, but he had Brooklyn Street smarts and grew up a motherless boy since the age of 6. I don’t come across many people who have more common sense than my Dad had.

@Dr-Mark said in Marching Season and Triple Super C:

Hi BigDub,
While its true, I am educated, I never said I was intl......intelge…....smart.

Honest, Dr Mark, I didn’t aim that at you one bit. I was just caught up in the flow of nonsense and wanted to add to it. Heh. Heh.