Posts made by Discount Bassy

'Allo, all. I am new to the forum and new to the trumpet as well. I've spent a bit over a decade gigging on electric bass. I also play sax (barimatone saxamophone) and flute competently enough to sit it. I do some noodling about on the drums and keyboard, but would not say I'm ready for the stage. This trumpet thing is unlike anything else I can get around on. I tried it once in third grade an ended up choosing woodwinds as a pursuit to avoid the itchy lips that a trumpet did unto me. Now, forty plus years later, I've decided to give it another go, mainly because I bought a King trumpet as an affordable house loaner for guests, quickly realizing that I could make some noises. Now I'm getting hooked and seeing it as a challenge to learn how to get about on the thing. Switching from sax to flute took me about a month of fiddling and figuring. I've never played any brass instruments, so this is all new to me. Glad to be hear. Hey, howdy, hiya and all that business. I look forward to learning from more competent tooters!

I've been digging on Miles Davis' "Tutu" of late...various versions of Marcus Miller playing it live and the original with the '80 synth stabs in the beginning. I play electric bass, flute and sax competently and finally picked up a trumpet. I know this isn't the idea tune to start with, but man, it is sweet.