Posts made by Dr GO

@rowuk said in Lip Buzzing-Bad:

I am really trying to understand and ask clarity to the above post. I hope the author can appreciate how confusing the above post reads (at least to me). Let's start first with:

...there are the internet snipers that post nothing except that a previously stated position is "all wrong" - but offer no contrary position.
"All" is not wrong. "Lip buzzing-Bad" from my perspective, is wrong. And yes, one should offer a contrary position. I have done so in prior embouchure threads on this site and on TM so will not repeat my position other then it is based on my 8 years of training as a medical student, resident, then 27 years teaching muscle physiology to medical students. Out of this experience, I have described the Phooooowwww technique. It is the most efficient way to play, as buzzing fatigues muscles, and anything that so adversely fatigues muscles is just wrong. Anyone who wants to debated me on this, I ask you first go through at least 4 years of medical school training, then you can be prepared to debate. If you are unwilling to do this, don't even start, as your ignorance will defeat you from the start.

If someone were to come and generally trash buzzing or trash not buzzing (like perhaps Mr. Vizzutti did), we would have adequate proof that they have left the realm of reality. The admin first reaction could be a PM warning. Repeated discourse would lead to escalation management.
Great, this site wants to recruit professionals and if I read this post right, the author is already advocating for Allen Vizzutti to be banned. If I am reading this wrong than please clarify. I have personally met Mr. Vizzutti, attended his master classes, and performed on stage, live with Allen. He is a true professional, and a real educator. Please, let's not ban Allen from this site if he chooses to become a member and lets put some trust into his perspective on buzzing.

...we could define a theme: "Most favorable practices" ...we could create the theme "warmup" which certainly will be more diverse
Agreed, these nuances would lead astray from the focus of this thread. I started this thread to be focused on buzzing. Let's stick to that focus, OK?

So glad you made it well through the surgery. So you have a new lease on life and will be playing again better than ever with a new resilience.

I know you can make it back by February if you start in the next couple weeks starting at a half hour a day for the first week back then adding 10 minutes every several days to your practice time letting your progress determine how fast you can advance to your normal routine. Once you get there then focus on range. You can do this!

@trumpetb said in Lip Buzzing-Bad:

@Dr-GO
I understand and in the context of how you use the word buzz I agree, but a vibration of the lip double reed can also be called a buzz.

I welcome your thoughts on this DR-GO.

Point well taken.

@trumpetb said in Lip Buzzing-Bad:

@Kehaulani

In my opinion there is wrong buzzing and there is correct buzzing. I need to clarify this apparently odd and bizarre statement.

Trumpetb, ANY BUZZING IS WRONG.

An amazing example of teamwork:

@barliman2001 said in Martin Committee Cornets - Why So Cheap, comparatively ???:

@trumpetb No, I won't roast you. I prefer deep-fried.

As a physician promoting healthy alternatives, may I suggest air fried.

The performer (epically one as accomplished as you sir) know their horns best. However, perhaps Barliman, you may recommend a better baton for the conductor to use.

Don't forget, it's not just the changes you need to hear but also the rhythm. If all you have is rhythm then the world of improv is yours to provide a new direction. That makes it all the more fun and inspiring.

It depends on what you mean by theory. If you're listening then hearing ALL around you, then you are applying theory.

Every 3rd Thursday of the month I have played in a an 18 piece jazz orchestra at a dance hall (The Milton Club). The floor is always packed. I enjoy watching the dancers as much as I do playing. Have been doing this gig since 2012.

@kehaulani I see you have a Committee back in your signature again. Did you get another? Miles said in an interview that one of the things he liked about the Committee was how the spit valves kept the sound moist.

@barliman2001 said in Dry instrument vs Wet instrument:

@dale-proctor So we can conclude that wet is always preferable to dry - a sentiment shared by glasses of whisky.

Not entirely true, there is something to say about a dry blended whiskey . Now that's how you wet a trumpet .

Then there is the art behind emptying the spit valve. Love the point of moistening the sound just to the point before it becomes a crackle.

@ottisiii said in Replacing used parts:

Any suggestions for replacement parts ?

I know a few plastic surgeons I could recommend.

Just got this back from my employer to use for patients to review in choosing their physician. While not positioning for a trumpet performance, I believe it provides the observer of my position in applying jazz to my medical interactions with patients.

@trumpetb said in Valve Springs:

You may be an actual engineer but the real life experience of taking a spring that does not perform well and stretching it, and after the stretching, it then performs well is well known, is proven and is consistently repeatable.

Suggesting I am not a real engineer will come as news to my employers who employ me as a principal engineer, and by the way I have worked in fabrication in several major industries and have 45 years engineering experience.

I have my PhD in metal alloys. And can state my reputation in less words. I win.

You want to muck around with the k constant Trumpetb, then so be it. But the results will be unpredictable. Yes? HOWEVER, I must admit, you just may luck out. And it appears you have. Good for you, but I still win.

@j-jericho Of interest, George Jetson was born in 2022 (July 31st). So yeah, the time is now to install this as the new theme, as our Space Leader has been born!

@trumpetb said in Is there such a thing as a “natural player”?:

A simple melody performed with elegance with heart and with soul calms the fevered brow and reaches into the very soul of the listener lifting them and transporting them to a better place.

And it was so rightly stated: "Nothing swings like a quarter note"

Joey Alexander