@Kehaulani said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
Yeah. It's like walking in the desert and stubbing your toe on a little pyramid shaped stone pile. You decide to dig it up and, to your amazement, it widens. You do this the rest of your life, discovering that you have been uncovering the Pyramid of Cheops. That's what mastery work looks like.
So your are saying, that is what it takes to develop great Cheops!
Here is one of my favorite Trumpet Players I would never have heard of if it wasn't for my morning workouts that I listen to to keep my pace up an the Elliptical while listening to Luna (Latino Jazz). It is Pete Rodriguez. Not only is he playing the amazing trumpet parts on this piece but is also the vocalist:
@J-Jericho said in Happy 4th of July!:
Do away with Electoral College, and we'll have a true democracy, which is defined by two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
That can only turn out Baaaaaaaaaaaaad for the sheep.
@Vulgano-Brother said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
I learned Zen practice from my shampoo.
"Lather, rinse, repeat."
So THAT explains a lot, Zen boy:
@barliman2001 said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
@GeorgeB said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
@Trumpetsplus said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
@GeorgeB QED
Sorry, Ivan, my ignorance is probably going to show here: What Is QED?
Originally, it's Latin and the abbreviation for Quod Erat Demonstrandum, meaning, "what was intended to be demonstrated". The abbreviation was first used in mathematics.
"So it is proved" is another interpretation of QED. And Barliman, quid pro quo if you agree, yes?
@BigDub said in Happy 4th of July!:
Enough politics.
I don't see this as a political discussion, but rather a political science dissertation, and I'm cool with understanding political science as best I can. [See next post]
I find that the Eugene Blee lip warm ups work really well at getting the blood flow and lips into a supple mode. The Blee warm ups have been posted elsewhere on this site.
They tell us in medical school, patients are not suppose to die from prostate cancer. I have lost my most important teacher of the trumpet to this disease. I have seen three of my patients die from this disease. They are not suppose to die from prostate cancer. To my professors that taught me this, reconsider.
I have learned from experience, not from my medical teachers, and from the many of our medical professional organizations not to screen. I screen my patients for this cancer.
@GeorgeB said in Lip Flexibilities:
@Dr-GO said in Lip Flexibilities:
@GeorgeB said in Lip Flexibilities:
Both flugelgirl and Dr.Go indicated they did lip flexibility exercises as a warm up. I am now wondering why I never tried doing them as a warmup for my afternoon ballad playing session. Well, it is on the table for this afternoon's session...two hours from now...
Looking forward to your review on how this works out for you!
Hey, Doc.
I have been doing a 5 minute warmup routine of whole note long tones that always seemed to benefit my tone in the first pece of music I play, but the 5 minute flexibility I used yesterday did something that long tones never did. They eliminated a stiffness, especially with intervals, that I often encountered with my first or second song in my afternoon sessions. Now, maybe my chops were just in a better condition yesterday. I don't know. But I am going to warmup with flexibilities for the next couple of weeks to see how it goes.
Great to hear this! I really think the octave slur component of the Blee warm up exercise is what it takes to get the blood flowing through the lip muscles. Getting oxygen (and glucose) to highly toned muscles is key to optimizing muscle activity out of it's resting threshold.
Claudio, our conversations we had together. How many times they went beyond the trumpet? All those conversations, trumpet and otherwise are forever in my memory and framed into the perspective of your warmth and kindness.
Those many trips down to SoHo to jam and record with your colleagues are forever engraved in my mind. What fun we had, and Oh how we learned.
And when you shared for me to play that street trumpet you were so proud of and bought for only $25, then gave it to me to play, you accepted my comment, "Claudio, it sounds like a $25 trumpet." Then you gave me a mouthpiece to exchange for mine.... your magic (knowledge of the horn) turned that piece into a gem. Then you you wisked me from your Manhattan apartment and paid once again, cab fare as you lead me onto a mouthpiece safari for my Olds Recording. On that trip, you introduced me to Jarome Callete, who made a piece for me from scratch. Never had to use the microphone again when I played with my sextet on 53rd and Lexington for my Friday evening gigs. Again, you will be forever in my mind.
You are truly be missed, my friend from Rio!
@Kehaulani said in Happy 4th of July!:
@Dr-GO said in Happy 4th of July!:
BTW, doesn't anyone have any questions about things trumpet or musical?
Yes, and I refer you to those topic threads. This one was titled "Happy 4th of July" a rather non-trumpet specific title and I do believe this thread is open to non-trumpet content as well and still be within the context of this thread.
Kehaulani, hope you had a wonderful 4th, and the anxiety of all the fireworks going off around you did not lead to some of the agitation you are feeling as I read your response to the content of this thread.
@Dr-Mark said in Theo Charlier:
Just beautiful. I had split screened the score of this second etude against the actual solo, and what came out to me, that was most influential as to his artistry, was not how he played the notes he played (that was amazingly accurate) but the way he used the written rests and pauses and how he made this work with the printed ink. THIS IS HOW AN ETUDE needs to be executed. I encourage all listening to this presentation to watch the manuscript come to life in simultaneous execution.
I originally posted this in "Little Humor" but I do believe it applies to this thread to illustrate where the discussion can go:
@Brian-Moon said in Happy 4th of July!:
Pure democracy will not work because it is easy for tyrants to convince the weak, the ignorant, and the stupid...
You convinced me Brian-Moon!
Agree. Intonation needs to be improved. Also, if there is a way to sync timing, that would be vital as there is a bit of a muddy quality to the mix.
@Tobylou8 said in Railroad Photography:
@Dr-GO said in Railroad Photography:
@BigDub said in Railroad Photography:
Saying: thank you "veery" much, to Veery.
OK... Thanks for keeping me on track. Thank God I have only a one track mind... much easier to accomplish.
At least you can N gauge!
OH! (on a smaller scale and with dyslexia)
@Kehaulani said in A Trumpet Cover I Did. Would love some tips/advice!:
I still would like to know about the voicing and chord choice on this.
And, no, I'm not being snarky. I genuinally would like to know.
Actually, Snarky Puppy has some excellent voicing!
