@bigdub said in Traits that make a great sight reader?:
@fels said in Traits that make a great sight reader?:
Often there is no time to preview a piece. There’s a book full of music, and you don’t always have an idea what is going to come up next, so you might have but a few moments to get an overview of it.
Perhaps a course in speed reading may help your sight reading skills!
Add to the challenge of sight reading that most the parts I get are for C instruments, so in addition to sight reading I am also transposing the notes as I go, and trying to remember to add two sharps to the written key signature.
I believe the hardest part of sight reading is being able to count. What really trips me up the most is reading where NOT to play (the rests) more so than were TO play (the notes). It all comes down to the rhythm, the feel of the song. That is what I find most challenging regarding sight reading.
I am reading this thread again and I am a bit concerned, Kehaulani, are you OK? We have not heard from you in weeks.
The Moog Synthesizer has a key hook up to patch an mic through the Synthesizer. I use a standard Sure Microphone as whey you are having wave forms created from the original trumpet input, I do not think the mic choice would be much of a variable (at least on a synthesizer).
Gary Dafler at Haur Music is THE BEST repair technician in Dayton. Actually people from Cincinnati come up to have instruments repair. Wynton Marsalis has graced Gary with horn repair on his trumpets when he tours to the area. Here is the link:
https://www.hauermusic.com/instrument-repair-dayton-ohio/
As with GeorgeB, I have my local brass technician do chemical cleans on my horns... and I'm a chemist!
Two Main Rules:
Sight Read Often
Sing it before you play it, and if you're Rapier, sing it to yourself and all will be fine.
@_mark_ said in My low notes sound like a gibbering Dalek:
...Recordings just cannot convey the physicality, the powerful acoustic resonance, of being in the room with the instruments, right up there near them....
I have a Hammond B3 with a Leslie Speaker only a keyboards distance away... gotta agree with you on that when I put the peddle to the metal!
AND with my Moog synthesizer at the right settings patched in through a high end bass amp I use connected to my keyboard system... it can actually clean out the sinuses!
@_mark_ said in My low notes sound like a gibbering Dalek:
...This physical aspect was the reason I loved loudly amplified guitar--it vibrated the whole body, not just the eardrums.
I get this whole body feeling on the trumpet when playing all the right notes!
@georgeb said in My low notes sound like a gibbering Dalek:
@rowuk said [ If things get congested (tonguing, breathing, chops, brain), it is amazing how much a sip of water helps. ]
That is so true. I get up, sip some water, walk up and down the hall, then go back and face the music and things start working again.
AND I bet you can whistle better as well.
People always underestimate the healing power of water.
@_mark_ said in Expressionism on trumpet:
@dr-go Thank you!
You are welcome. Till Bronner is a hidden gem here in the USA. He is very well known in Germany and is the top rated jazz musician in Germany. He rarely comes to the USA, mostly to record, but I had the chance to hear him in concert when he was giving a clinic at the International Trumpet Guild in Columbus OH (down the road from me). I attended his clinic as well. Just amazing. He invited me on stage and I had the amazing honor of playing several tunes with him, and at one time, trading 8's!. He has just as warm of a personality as his trumpet sound.
Here is a pic from the clinic. Till is the one under the red arrow, I am under the blue:
Anything Till Bronner is expressionism on trumpet. He has a very airy quality to his sound and does so with light textures yet able to keep ultimate control. Here is an example of a song he wrote, but recorded by the amazing jazz vocalist Mark Murphey. Listen not only to Till's introduction but also how he converses with Mark Murphey oh so subtly. Expressionism at it's finest:
@administrator said in Any organists?:
My Allen ADC-420 arrives tomorrow so I am very excited.
Gotta show us the pics when it arrives.
@_mark_ said in My low notes sound like a gibbering Dalek:
@j-jericho Thanks. I don't think it's excessive. I can practice for an hour a couple times a day and not feel any pain. I was warned about that from the start and I try to be careful. Not to mention having seen the scars on the lips of all of my 'heroes', like Satchmo, Miles, Chet Baker ...
Yes, even the best are not immune to doing damage. Freddie Hubbard was out for a bit after splitting his lip.
As for me, I prefer to call my "scars" "wear patterns". I have never injured my lips, but have developed a nice ring callus much like a guitarist develops calluses on their fingers. I have "worn" this much of my life, and it has remained fairly stable for decades.
@georgeb said in On the, “ I wish I had had a little more sense of history” topic......:
I actually like playing Strangers In The Night, but I skip the Dooby dooby dooo at the end.
I sing Strangers In The Night if I first partake of some Dobby dooby dooos just prior to said song breakout...
This is of course legal in Colorado... and of more recent, New Jersey, as BigDub probably knows.... and perhaps, we may see more abstract art offerings from BigDub as a result, yes?
Advance now 58 years, here is my current house with the original Hammond started on at my mothers home. That organ in the background dates back to 1963 and still plays amazingly well. Oh yeah and that keyboard to the right of the organ on the PA is a Mini Moog, I purchased in 1972 when I played keyboards in a Rock Band.
