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Prior to my retirement from my professorial gig at the medical school this past December, I taught muscle physiology in the first year medical student curriculum. We are at the mercy to the laws of physiology of muscle fiber development. So it takes about 2-6 weeks for muscle to adapt to new stress without damaging fibers. At the end of that 2-6 week span, one can add another 20% duration to the work out. So if 45 minutes is all you can do at this point, continue for several weeks at 45 minutes, than in that new week add 45 x 0.20 or about 10 minutes to the next week (55 minutes) and stay with that for another several weeks. Then advance another 20%. Keep doing this at these intervals until you reach your goal.

Let fatigue be your friend. When you loose control or start leaking air, step away from the horn for the day and start back at it tomorrow.

Let me know how this works out.

Here is a unique tonguing exercise and perhaps with strength there is speed:

@Curlydoc said in New Categories:

@Dr-GO How about good music for doctors? LOL

This music has a good message (and horns of course) but may be self defeating for we physicians:

By the way, I have transcribed the horn parts for this as I played it with a rock band "The Young Stallions" (composed of medical students non-the less). I was honored that they invited me as their faculty to be their horn section!

While known as producing a dark sound, it can light up a room as well (as evidenced in Dizzy Gillespie's playing). Here is that 1946 Committee pictured above lighting up an original song, Aliyah, written by our Sax Player, Jack Novotny:

https://soundcloud.com/user-296675506/aliiyah

@LaTrompeta said in Martin Committee Club:

...I played one once and almost got it. It was super slippery in its slots.

AND THAT is what I love about the Martin Committee:
My 1946 baby:

Great to see we have most of our moderators from TM here... and rumor has it that Rowuk is circulating the site and laying low (as if Rowuk could actually fly under the radar so to speak) as he decides whether or not to add to the cause.

@SchilkeB6 said in Flugel Thread:

NIIICE!!!

Thanks so much for your support over the years, both on line and in live performance. This means so much to me.

@chelpres said in Flugel Thread:

@Dr-GO Nice solo, thank you

Thanks. The choice was to do it on the trumpet or my large bore flugel, and I chose to use the flugel to soften the upper range as I felt it fit more the mood of the song.

Horns are not necessarily a thing of the past. Here is a more contemporary recording of Louis Cole. Love his use of horns and his own more millennial approach to funk.

Youtube Video

@trickg said in How many measures on a tank of air?:

Another way to think about it is like a vocal tune - sing through the lines and find where you would breathe normally if you were singing lyrics.

THIS is key. Music is about phrasing. So phase the notes as you would speak the passage. When I learn a tune, I will always read the words over the notes if included in the music for the most accurate phrasing, pauses and breathing. When you do this a lot, you know the standard musical notations of whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes sometimes just cannot "map out" as accurately the phrasing to which the spoken line was meant to express.

AND worth every penny:

Now for my Getzen Eterna. Here is a pic of that horn and a recording from the Eddie Brookshire Quintet recording of "Surrendered Life" in which I am playing the solo on that cut with this horn.

My beloved flugelhorn the Kanstul 1526 (4 valve version)

AND a video of me playing the horn with one of the medical students I had the pleasure of teaching as a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HaK1sYi5_cfSw3C1N7Hv-Y9oA3PliAaR/view?fbclid=IwAR2fs6m-PILd5iR7l8d-GXalpj-EftHSLhNsNhiJxjSQeTqWlLkUF8lzHy0

There are now 2 GREAT Jazz Jams to attend in Dayton:

1. Jazz Central on Sunday nights from 8 pm-12 am and is the longest running jazz jam in the region (probably in all of Ohio);
   From the Jazz Central Web Site:
   

2. First Thursday of the Month Jazz Jam at Mila's Suburban Cafe. Every FIRST Thursday of the month, going from 7 pm-9pm. I have attended EVERY ONE. It is a new club, great acoustics and the featured rhythm section is the nucleus of the Eddie Brookshire Quintet, THE BEST small band ensemble in the region (as officially voted in the Dayton Daily News). Food is great, and man, love that draft beer made from coffee!!!
   Mila's Facebook Page"
   

I recommend that the Web Designer open up a Category Titled: Good Medicine for Musicians

@Tobylou8

The real secret to getting a double C on a regular basis... Buy a Harrelson Summit!

So.. not a secret anymore.

And I take this as a chance for a rebirth. gmonady is now Dr GO.