Posts made by BigDub

Does a large bore make you sleepy?
What do sheep count?
What does Dracula count?
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Practice makes perfect. Nobody’s perfect. In that case, Nobody practices.
"Nothing rhymes with orange"...no it doesn’t.

@administrator said in TrumpetMaster.com:

So, I think it is safe to say this site is gone for good, no? Anybody have any information on who the owner was? I would like to purchase the domain and redirect traffic to TB. Please PM me with any info you might have. Thanks!

I wonder if you have to purchase anything to redirect from a defunct domain? I am not an expert, I am just thinking out loud.

@Dr-GO said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:

@Bob-Pixley said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:

I've never had a headache from playing with out of tune "musicians", but it is a pain in the butt.

In these situations, I just learned to turn the other cheek!

I'll bet that helps.

@neal085 said in Practicing with drones:

@BigDub Big Brother just making sure you were playing in tune, but also curious what MP you were using.

There were also TV cameras there, but this happens everywhere I go, it seems..
( the tv camera part was true, but the part about it happening everywhere I go, not so much )
We all have big brother following us. Our iPhones/smart phones, don’t you think?

I know it’s a different kind of drone, but last night at an outdoor concert for our community band, a drone was actually hovering slightly to our left and only about 75 ft in the air. It stayed for a good 15 minutes. That was rather bizarre, wouldn’t you say?

I have been doing more small pieces of late and find them to be both challenging and enjoyable. This one is about 11"x14", a farm near my home in Hillsborough, NJ. It may well not be in this condition any longer but that is a big part of why I do like painting subjects like this.

@Dr-Mark said in Do you see what I see??:

Hi BigDub,
I like what you said!
This is IMO why recording ones self and critically listening to the recording is so important. Recording and listening is the great leveler. There have been times I would say to myself, "That was pretty good!" but when I'd listen to the recording, it would suck. It takes a lot of ego strength to record and listen because usually the recording will not be as good as you wanted or thought it to be.

Absolutely. Positively. 100%. Agree. My biggest improvements have come after listening to myself and being quite disappointed....but only because, like you, I thought hmm, that was pretty good. Then I knew what needed a lot of improvement!
People may think it ego driven, but my recordings are a real harsh dose of reality and good medicine for me!

@Vulgano-Brother said in Do you see what I see??:

@BigDub said in Do you see what I see??:

I have had that happen many times, now that you mention it.

Great! Get those resultant tones sounding in tune, and memorize the sound and its visceral aspects. For best results, use the first and third slides to do the tuning work.

My problem is more with some others rather than myself and whether there is any hope whatsoever for their improvement.

The headache could be mental anguish rather than a physical thing. I am not a Dr. Though, Dr's GO and Mark
so I am owning that.
I do know this, if I have to sit in front of the drums I sometimes end up with a headache.

Ticket prices were higher this year for the balloon festival due to inflation

There’s a crew building a deck across the street. They seem to be doing an ok job, but man, are they slow.
How slow? I know you're asking.
They went off to another job about a week ago and I thought they were still making steady progress.
One of them had a girlfriend, it seems. Heavy set, big boned, pretty face, as they say. She would stop by and visit her Bo.
Well. At least they build a strong deck.

@Vulgano-Brother said in Do you see what I see??:

Intonation is learned, and the best way I've found is to play intervals with another trumpeter. One plays a "drone" and the other slides up or down until the resultant tones are in tune. You'll hear the resultant tones "buzzing" in your ear.

That is very helpful and encouraging to know. Thanks.
I have had that happen many times, now that you mention it.

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@moshe said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub

I thought it was a stunningly beautiful photograph.

But another poster said that it is a painting?

Morris / moshe

Haha, nope, it’s a painting. I'll make sure to let you know when it’s a photo.
One thing that happens is people look at some of these paintings on a small screen like a phone and that makes it look much more like a photograph.

It is a fine work of art on a big or a small screen.

The check's in the mail, George! Oops. Did I say that out loud?

@moshe said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub

I thought it was a stunningly beautiful photograph.

But another poster said that it is a painting?

Morris / moshe

Haha, nope, it’s a painting. I'll make sure to let you know when it’s a photo.
One thing that happens is people look at some of these paintings on a small screen like a phone and that makes it look much more like a photograph.

@Vulgano-Brother said in Do you see what I see??:

Knew a trumpeter that could peg any note on the tuner up to double c any time.

Problem is, if you are playing a chord tone, the Major 3rd will need to come down about 14 cents, the fifth about 2 cents up. If everyone does their part and play the exact degree of "out-of-tuneness" needed, the chord will ring. If everyone pegged the tuner, the chord will not ring.

I worked more than the above-mentioned trumpeter did.

That brings up a question for me. Can folks learn to hear that or does it rely on some natural ability ingrained. I ask because I wonder about some players and their seeming lack of hearing when a note is just not right, and then further into it, what you were saying, Brother Vulgano, how on certain chords you have to "hear" the amount you need to push a note to make it ring. Can that be taught or learned?

A very good trombone playing friend told me once when we were working on a piece that I was about an eighth of a step flat.
I said, I'll take it, that’s about as close as I can be, then.

A scene not too far from my home. This is a small switch house originally from the Pennsylvania RR, but the "myth" that has spread about it is that it was the Bridge tender's house, I have since found out otherwise. The PRR bought the Delaware & Raritan Canal and essentially put it out of business in the early 1930s. At its peak, the D&R canal did more commerce than the Erie Canal.

today I have a piece from Ketchikan Alaska where there was this scene and we even saw some Salmon trying their best to swim up this very strong current. I love attempting to re create the raging white water, and sometimes I get it, and sometimes not so much!

@Tobylou8 said in Do you see what I see??:

@Dr-GO said in Do you see what I see??:

@Tobylou8 said in Do you see what I see??:
...I see 2 trumpets with tuners on them.
BINGO!!!! If these two cats use them.... just sayin'. Thanks for responding. I had forgotten about this awesome video!!

And I am not so sure this is a good thing... Perhaps just perhaps in a recording studio, but not in real time performance.

Why? It is a section leaders responsibility to be in tune with the ensemble, not necessarily the perfect pitch. I have played in many an ensemble when the leader (bassist) insists on tuning to them. Tonight, I play in a big band rehearsal at the University of Dayton's piano is a quarter tone flat where I have to put the tuning slide out about an eighth of an inch from the perfect pitch. I have a tuning app on my phone, but I tune to the piano, not the app, and I expect my entire section to tune with me (which they do).

Tell Wayne... , and Dan.... . I think they know what they are doing. Be interesting to know why they used them I think.

I feel that great players like that would be hampered by a tuner, unless it corrects the pitch somehow electronically. Watching or relying on a tuner when you’ve already got a trained ear seems like a Tour de France racer using training wheels to keep him/her upright

Back in the day, they had a thing called the Irish sweepstakes ( before there was a lottery ).
So Shamus Murphy bought a ticket, with the amount of the prize being $50,000. That was a huge amount of money, in those days, if he were to win. Mrs Murphy and his lovely daughter got to the mailbox before Shamus did, so they found out he won.
Concerned for his weak heart, they thought it might be best to call the local parish Priest to bring it to him gently....he would know better how to break it to him, of course.
So the old Priest gladly came over to do the kind deed.
"Mr Murphy, I heard you bought a ticket to the sweepstakes"
"Yes, father, I sure did"
"Well, isn't that something! And what would you do with all those winnings, if, of course, you won?" He said.
"Why, if I won, I would surely give half of the winnings to you and the church, father!"
The priest fell over dead with a heart attack.