Always remember and never forget:
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect so why practice?
Answer: Because if you THINK you have reached perfect, you have let yourself down as then you settle to where you are. It is my theory that there is always as better place. So that when you reach your goal, it's time to set a new goal... so you get better... and better... and better...
@Dale-Proctor said in Same high quality as Recording models:
Yep, like I said, you can find a few pros in the past playing jazz on an Ambassador and they work pretty well in that genre. I played lead in a big band for a while on an L.A. Ambassador, and it was ok, but it sure wasn’t suited for “legit” music.
Dale, I agree with you entirely. I have never played my Ambassador for "legit" music as it just cannot live up to the quality of sound you get from more seasoned horns. I just love that the Ambassador when high quality musicians play it can show off it's jazz sound potential.
An example from this reading: The use of the pinky ring. Here is the position of the author of the article on Body Mapping for Trumpet Players:
When is pinky ring use necessary?
In 2 situations is the pinky ring use necessary.
When is pinky ring use not necessary?
Reasoning:
When the pinky finger is in the ring it encourages pulling the trumpet into the embouchure, restricts movement of the other fingers, and prohibits any rotation at the wrist.
@Trumpetsplus said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Dr-GO As a medic
Also as a medic (physician) I take my own advice.... it seems to be working!
What's all the BIG DEAL about Giant Steps! It's so simple, even a kid can do it:
@Dale-Proctor said in 1970 Bach 43 elusive high G#:
@Dr-GO said in 1970 Bach 43 elusive high G#:
@ROWUK said in 1970 Bach 43 elusive high G#:
@Trumpetb I will heartily disagree with the mouthpiece having anything to do with a G#.
Do not loose the focus with this response. There is just something about the G# that just bedazzles the note itself from my experience. Doesn't matter which horn I am playing, which mouthpiece I use with any horn, you have to think (and hear) that G# to slot squarely on it.
You just have to think “Ab” instead of G#, and you’ll hit it dead-on…lol
Don't know why, but I think of it as 2,3. I plead neutrality.
@dale-proctor said in Body Mapping for Trumpet Players:
...As I’m getting older, I need to stop making things harder than they need to be.
But thank our lucky stars the article didn't discuss the pit falls of getting older! So I believe, Dale, that we are good!
@Dr-GO said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Trumpetsplus said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Dr-GO As a medic
...I take my own advice.... it seems to be working!
Albeit there is the saying: A physician that treats himself has a fool for a patient.
Guilty as charged.... But again, I am a well aged OLD fool!
@tmd said in ii/ V7/ I in All Twelve Keys:
...And I agree that learning everything in 12 keys is a good goal to have. But the vast majority of the Real Book tunes are in the keys I listed. There are a few exceptions, like Wave and Take Five.
Mike
That is how Claudio Roditi taught me improve. He had me prepare a lesson from a transcribed solo of a jazz performer and my lesson was to run that solo through all 12 keys. This really helped the fluidity of my phrasing (which is why I feel comfortable soloing in ANY key).
Nice work aTrumpetdude.
I too played a performance I was hired to perform through our local musician's union 101-473 of the American Federation of Musicians at the Troy First Lutheran Church. Sorry I do not have a recording to post, but of interest, in the now 3 years I have been hired to play this performance, I have always tried to get "A Child is Born" by Thad Jones on the program, but to my dismay, without approval by the organist or the pastor. But this year, we had a new organist, more progressive in terms of Lutheran lore, and she took the bait and let me perform "A Child is Born" as a solo. Oh how it resonated within the high arches of the church. And while it may have broken with Lutheran tradition, the German Pastor loved it, and perhaps, just perhaps, "A Child is Born" by Thad Jones will be a new Lutheran tradition... Well at least in Troy Ohio!
This next one suggests the possibility retinal injury from increased pressure to retinal vessels:
In Dayton Ohio it's Hauer Music:
The founding owner was well know to bringing nationally known trumpet players (Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Allen Vizzutti, Doc Severinsen) into concert halls and even his own original mammoth store. We did the Dayton Trumpet Hang at Hauer's downtown location a couple a years hosted by Allen Vizzutti. And the trumpet tech there, Gary Dafler is second to none. Wynton has brought his horns in an his trips through Dayton to have Gary work on them. This is my location whenever I get the urge to go an a mouthpiece safari.
@SSmith1226 said in Playing Like A Girl:
...the talented teenage trumpet player is Dr. Mark’s Daughter.
OK, well we won't hold that against her!
@bigdub said ...Non of the peons wanted to point out the obvious!
Not to get peon their shoes?
@barliman2001 said in Medical Aspects and Risks of Playing the Trumpet:
@dr-go Thanks!
So welcome. Pressure created in the body from wind instruments cannot be physiologically underestimated. I did my own experiments on pressure effects on the urinary tract while I was cannulated for renal obstruction due to renal trauma resulting for a 4 day intensive care unit stay in 2014. My ICU nurses were gracious enough to allow me to bring in and play my pocket trumpet (with a Yamaha Silent Mute attached as a compromise).
With the helpful data collection from one of my ICU nurses, we found that when I began playing from the C on staff to the F just above the staff, my urinary flow steadily declined, and was totally absent once I played above the F.
Long term consequences of this are minimal as we do not play for extended hours throughout the day, but some practical aspects of this study suggest perhaps lead players will need less bathroom breaks!
@Kehaulani said in Professional musicians on this board question:
BTW, Eddie Brookshire Quintet, and you, play their butts off. That album is a gas!
Thanks Kehaulani! That album was a real work of love. Eddie drove the band hard, but Kenny was the talent that blended all that energy into a unifying force.
@Dr-Mark said in How Do You Give the Audience a Sonic Experience?:
...the only way I leave without greeting everyone is if I have to shoot out of there because I have another show to do which requires a quick rinse off in their restroom and a change of shirts before I get to the next venue.
Dr. Mark on his way to his next Sonic Gig:
@ssmith1226 said in Put Down The Duckie:
@dr-go
I was referring to the first video (1986).
The picture is blurred, bit in that vintage, I believe he was playing a Bach.
@curlydoc said in Medical Aspects and Risks of Playing the Trumpet:
@dr-go Can trumpet playing aid the passage of stones?
That is how I got to my predicament. I could not pass a stone, so the pressure blew several calyxes in my left kidney, then blew a hole in the back wall after which urine leaked into my retroperitoneum then filtered to my inguinal gutters inflaming my left femoral vein causing a DVT that dislodged and produced 4 pulmonary embolisms that I barely survived, leading to a code blue and my stay in the ICU. This sequence of events all started the last set of a gig I was playing at Pittsburg's Little E's. So if trumpet playing does not pass the stone, it'll blow a hole through the wall of the kidney. Been there, done that!
@djeffers78 said in Brick & Mortar Music Stores:
Wow!
Cincinnati has still quite a few mom and pop music shops.
djeffers. Do you know if Buddy Rodger's Music is still around. I use to teach trumpet lessons at their North College Hill location when in college at the University of Cincinnati. I remembered they had an excellent selection of sheet music... and instructors as well!
