Posts made by Dr GO

@Kehaulani said in Easter Services:

I made no mistakes whatsoever. Very inspirational. Stayed home and contemplated my belly button.

Man, I would give ANYTHING to have a perfect belly button!

My Easter gig went fairly well but certainly not flawless. The prelude "Let the Trumpet Sound" is written on 4 pages. As I transitioned from page 1 to 2, the left margin of page 2 was covered by page 1, so there was about 3 measures of improv until I could get page 1 out of the way. From that point on, things went rather well.

AND to the Chemists out there:

HAPPY EASTER from:

The Ether Bunny

@Kehaulani said in Easter Services:

Are you spending the night sleping on a pew, then?

I hope not because as Confucius say:
"He who fart in church, sit in pew!"

HAPPY EASTER EVERY BUNNY

Do you hear what I hear? Man does the lower brass really shine on this arrangement! Powerful!!!

You know, what I find that adds stress to these performances is that the vocal chorus requires the performer to repeat the verse, typically four times. That repetitive playing I find fatigues the embouchure more than range fatigue.

@trickg said in Easter Services:

I'm playing lead on all of it, so there is that middle section from the Hallelujah Chorus where I'm always wondering if I'm going to make it, but I haven't had an issue with it, so here's hoping that it goes ok on Sunday too.

May your embouchure be firm and your mouth, moist. My spirit will be with you.

@administrator said in List of Undergraduate Schools with Well-known Trumpet Programs:

Where is Peabody?

This is Sherman:

AND HERE is Peabody:

Practice, practice, practice. This is why and here are the tasks to achieve:

1. Build lip muscle for CONTROL. This assures adequate vibration to "sing" the notes
2. Build chest and abdominal muscle to support the note (so you don't pinch from the upper airway; this closes it off)
   Do these two major things and the third ESSENTIAL component follows:
3. RELAX. Do not pinch off the airway that you lower body muscles support and that the lips control.

@administrator said in Help! I need to hit that high note!:

....If you are an expert yourself, state your qualifications.

My qualifications: I arranged this song written by our band leader on our first CD. There are ONLY two horns, a trumpet and tenor. The harmonies I arranged fattened the horn lines up so it sounds like more. The trumpet part hangs above staff about 45% of the written part.
I submit for proof of high note qualifications:

Minor Blues:

How do I do it? Here is the secret. I practice.... A LOT!

PS: This recording was performed on my Olds Recording... which has much resistance in this upper register. Not the best piece of equipment for the job in sustained upper register work. I did have assistance here with the Jettone Studio B. That helped!
Other soloists: Jack Novotny - Tenor Sax; Kenny Drew Jr - Piano

@Kehaulani said in Help! I need to hit that high note!:

Louis Prima had the answer back in the 50s: High Note Grease.
(The Lip.)

Interesting in that the notes hit here are really not that high. I guess it's all relative to the 50's. Today's high note players take these notes one or two octaves higher. So trumpet players have evolved to the current decades with better techniques and better instruments. From Homo Erectus to Double High Homo C-lectus. We have indeed evolved!

@Dr-GO said in Help! I need to hit that high note!:

Perhaps we should end the discussion now on a high note before all that conflicting advice begins to pour in!

And there we have it folks, just as predicted.

@administrator said in Oder Deutsch?:

@moshe said in Oder Deutsch?:

I don't mean to brag,
but I am completely illiterate in 7 languages.

moshe

I'm very impressed. I'm fluent in 2 and can pronounce words from 4.5

As I tell my patients... I know CPR and 23 other letters of the alphabet. That always instills trust in their physician.

Indiana University. I know Bill Adam (teacher to Chris Botti and Randy Brecker) are no longer there, but their music program still has an amazing reputation.

Perhaps we should end the discussion now on a high note before all that conflicting advice begins to pour in!

@Tobylou8 said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

Good catch Doc, I meant the Circle of Breath. Definitely not circular breathing.

Good, Now I believe we can all breathe easier!

@Tobylou8 said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

I learned a lot from Robin.... and circular breath to name a few.

Clarification: The circle of breath (circular breath) which was an excellent Rowuk (Robin) topic is not the same thing as circular breathing which has been a topic that I (Dr GO) have detailed on TM and more recently here on TB. Just to make sure some people reading this will not become confused with these terms.

@Kehaulani said in Notre-Dame de Paris:

Let's see. A guy who works at Vassar has a machine that can see through things. Hmmm.

Hmmm..... even I can see right through THAT!

@Kehaulani said in Notre-Dame de Paris:

@djeffers78 said in Notre-Dame de Paris:

Even new methods can be made to look ancient

...in front of me was this huge stone carved Mayan Wall Calendar... I reached out and touched it. It was plastic.

Oh My [or Myan] God! The Mayan's were more advanced then we EVER expected. They discovered the formula to AND were able to synthesize polyvinylchloride!