@SchilkeB6 said in Torpedo Cases:
@Tobylou8
Just a gag for when I am talkingto people.
AND Who knows, when someday you may be playing with the trio supporting Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz.
While Oz didn't give Tin Man something he didn't already have... THANK GOD SchilkeB6 will be there for his oil:
Pre-Trumpet but warming up for the event on the Hammond B3 at my first club gig. Played once a month at the Golden Rooster, Anderson Twp, Cincinnati OH. That is Ronnie Dale in the background. He was the original organist for the Cincinnati Reds.
@administrator said in Buy your horns here, not there!:
@Trumpetsplus said in Buy your horns here, not there!:
People buy Jaeger trumpets from me.
And I have heard many good things.
So why isn't Trumpetsplus a trusted seller? I trust him. And he sells his own horns. QED.
Does this count?
The Eddie Brookshire Jazz Orchestra is playing a "Community Band Concert" at a local area high school on Monday at 3:30 pm for a school assembly honoring Jazz Appreciation Month. We are playing:
Manteca
Little Pixie II
Nutville
Aja
Kansas City
It Don't Mean a Thing
Perdido
Valdez in the Country
Blue Rondo al a Turk
Stolen Moments
The center of the band in action:
@Robrtx said in LONG TONES:
Gary,
What is your view on the "Cat Anderson 'Whisper G'" long tone method compared to traditional long tones, in terms of effectiveness from a muscle physiology perspective and why?
I was given this exercise by my Jazz Orchestra Band Leader, again Eddie Brookshire, so have used this method. I, unfortunately (or fortunately - depending on prospective) would proceed ONLY after FIRST starting my Eugene Blee warm up method. What I found out about adding Cat Anderson's method (who works under the theory that the in staff G is the philosophical most ergonomically designed note on which to begin a warm up) to my exercises, is my range work has became more efficient.
This is all much to the dismay of my band director, Eddie Brookshire that is now begging me to contain my projection as I have over achieved for my master. I do believe however that my Harrelson Summit has something to do with that as well.
You know, I used to get this as well, but I remember something Rowuk recommend on TM and this works well. Before each oiling after I remove the valves, I use a paper towel and wipe clean the valve, even tuck a bit inside the bore if I see any hint of deposit. I do the wipe even if I see no sing of residue. After doing this, my valves have stayed amazing debris free, which never use to happen between my typical three month cleaning.
Alternatively you could kiss the viola player.
Dave Letterman spoke to me for sure with this Top 10 List of when you know you are a musician that is getting older:
The Top Ten ways a musician knows he's getting older...
#10) It becomes more important to find a place on stage for your fan than for your amp
#9) You have to stop the song because your ibuprofen fell behind the speaker
#8) All your fans have to leave by 9:30
#7) You check the tv schedule before booking a gig
#6) You need a nap before, during and after the gig
#5) The only Rolling Stones you care about are in your gallbladder
#4) You start listing your truss as a business expense
#3) The only white powder you have is on your feet
#2) You actually ask the guitar player to turn up
And The Number One... You don't recover from a Saturday night gig until Tuesday.
I thought it would be interesting to hear from all performing Easter Services. Would like to hear regarding the venue (Church, Cathedral, Coliseum) and denomination. Lists of songs to be performed would be of help as well.
The reasoning behind this posting is last year I received a call from my Local AFM that a Lutheran Church in the area wanted to hire a trumpeter to play their Easter Service last year. I had to pass a fairly rigorous interview by the church elders (seriously) to get the gig. I had to provide references, and was asked directly, do I know the Lutheran Hymnal? I was honest and said that the services I played in the past were Methodist and Baptist. So I posted on TM for some help from members as to traditional Lutheran Easter Service Hymns, and got an AMAZING response. It really helped my credibility to get the job, and it was a great success! Since last Easter, the same church hired me to play their Christmas Services, and I am again hired to play next week's Easter Service.
While this thread may not be of much help for this year, perhaps our members testing the waters for an Easter performance may want some advice in preparing for next year. Hope this is helpful.
Finally if you can't play it right and can't play it with feeling, you should go into another field other than music and spare the torturing of music teachers...
or play the viola for the CIA during their spy interrogations
@Dr-GO said in Why do scales go up?:
Personally, my scales are going up because I am eating more sweets.
And on another note.... eating all that turkey, dressing and pecan pie (not necessarily in that order) isn't going to help either...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!
So it looks like we have a couple of Conn artists here. Welcome Eaton good to have you on board.
@Peter-Mac said in Great Idea!:
I thought I was the only one that made and wore slips!!
I wear Freudian slips all the time. Little was it known that a psychiatrist was into woman's undergarments.
I remember a call out to TM members a year and a half ago for how to succeed in getting the nod to play an Easter Service for a Lutheran Church in a nearby city after I got the third degree series of questions by church members as to my prior experience in playing Lutheran services. I must admit, that service would have been my first. Got a lot of suggestions of songs, and performance styles within the Lutheran tradition, of which Barliman's suggestions were most rewarding.
I got the gig, and just as Barilman prophesized, once getting in, they will keep you in their graces thereafter. He was so right, as since that first Easter gig, they hired me to perform last year's Christmas Service, then this year's Easter Service and yes again, this Christmas Service.
The new organist sent me an email in the traditional staunch Lutheran doctrine suggesting services overview: "...let me know if you have descant trumpet parts for Christmas songs and what keys. Let's be sure we have the same musical language, so please be clear whether you are speaking about your trumpet key (assuming you have a B flat trumpet, your part will be written a step higher) or actual pitch, which I'd be playing from the keyboards. ...It would be nice to do a couple numbers featuring trumpet - no singing - in the prelude, like O holy night or Gesu Bambino."
So here is what I did, I went way out on a limb that Barilman warned me against and cautioned "stay with tradition". So boy did I stray. I suggested playing Thad Jone's "A Child is Born" and sent the chart and a YouTube recording to the organist (and cc'd it to the Pastor - An original German Lutheran Pastor).
Here was the organist's response to my recommendation: "Most of my church experience is with the Roman Catholics. "A Child is Born" is lovely, but would definitely raise eyebrows in the Catholic church. I will let Pastor Holst decide about that."
Then it came, straight from Pastor Heidi Holst: "Dear Musicians, I just had the opportunity to listen to the A Child- piece. It is beautiful but it is a quite jazzy arraignment...." So I may have just cracked the traditional Lutheran glass ceiling, and just perhaps this will come off in the honor of Saint Thad Jones!
@tmd said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
Practicing is useful for acquiring and refining skills, but not for creating talent.
Mike
True, but getting out there in a performance environment, with nurturing band mates... that will help in the talent development department. I do believe that talent development is not only a mental set point but motivational. Do not underestimate the power of the brain. Synapses are ALWAYS being established and I truly believe talent can be developed through experiential activation.
I did not. Started formal training on flutaphone during early grade school that went right into our public school band system, where a Richard Westrich began to instruct me during my first phase of learning. Then classical performance at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
HOWEVER, I was self taught at Rock which started with a band audition while still a student a the University of Cincinnati. It was one of my Rock band mates that challenged me to take formal lessons in jazz. I went back to the College Conservatory of Music and auditioned for jazz lessons before the CCM Jazz Program Director, Frank Brown. He stopped my audition withing minutes of my starting and said, "You don't need jazz studies, you need to be in my Big Band.. So I learned jazz less formally, by playing around others So in that way I guess I started at being self taught. That is until I moved to NYC and then will into my first decade of self taught jazz performance, finally started formal jazz training with Claudio Roditi.
@Tobylou8 said in We're off to a good start:
loquacious
Beyond that: we are more like Supercalafragilisticexp-loquacious!
I would teach medical students how to wash hands before they would go into the newborn nursery, telling them they needed to do at least a 20 second hand wash, and suggested they sing (to themselves) twinkle, twinkle, little star rather then do a boring 20 second time count.
One year a Russian immigrant was admitted to the Med school class and when I gave my hand washing discussion, she looked scared into my eyes and said, I do not know this twinkle, twinkle, little star. I told her, no worries, but just to hum the first 40 bars of Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. A look of relief passed over her face, and she turned to find a sink and washed perfectly!
I personally change position of fingerings depending on the progression I am to play, and in some cases the horn I am using. As for both of my 4-valve flugelhorns, there is no finger hook on the bell as I did not want this to get in the way of the dexterity of using that fourth valve. Of interest, the Getzen came as a standard feature to NOT have a finger hook. The Kanstul had the finger hook standard, and I had to ask the Kanstul company to LEAVE THE HOOK OFF when I placed the order. They complied with the request and it has made me a very happy flugelhorn player.
As for my trumpets, I adjust finger position depending an the nuance I want to get out of a tune. Bebop gets the the "correct" details to keep the fingers rounded and directly over the buttons for the most rapid response and dexterity. However, for ballads I like to change the grip to place my dip joint over the keys as this allows me to slow and even when needed, half valve an attack of a note so as to get more "personality" out of a passage.