@Dr-Mark said in Moderator in hospital:
@barliman2001
It is a sad thing that you are sick... I hope you fine this small discussion about how to relax just by petting your dog helpful.
Of course in this example, having tetanus and rabies vaccine up to date helps.
@Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:
@Dr-GO
And after playing that double C I wasn't worth much to the band afterwards. Because I had expended most of my reserve energy.In the Stevens-Costello method we set the embouchure to be able to blow this double C...
I knew that I was setting my embouchure as directed by Stevens-Costello... Soon as I could get notes in or around double C I took this same embouchure and worked it down to my concert B flat tuning note.
See, this is what I see more of the goal. Not to lift once that 200 lb weight but to lift that 150 lb weight easily and repetitively. I needed to develop a technique that did not allow me to fatigue playing a 4 hour gig with the Eddie Brookshire Quintet. Double C was not my goal. Lasting 4 hours for high range charts that stayed in the high range (high C to G range for a large potion of songs) was. I found on my own what I call the Phoowwww technique. I developed this as a physician, teaching over a decade of medical biochemistry and physiology to first year medical students. I put the theory behind metabolism and muscle function into practice. It achieved my goal, I can now last through a 4 hour gig with Eddie Brookshire. And a side benefit, I hit that double high C with solid attack, whenever I rarely need it. In this technique, dental position is not an issue. Its all about forming the optimal orbital mouth muscle to diminish fatigue (build up of lactic acid to this and support muscle).
That's what it is all about. Endurance. Not double C, triple C. When one had assured endurance, they play what ever they want to play with mindful security. That is the goal.
@Dr-Mark said in Perfect Pitch:
@SSmith1226
...I worked on this but found it to be a huge pain in the ass. Not that the system didn't work, it fine tuned my listening to the point that if I heard something just slightly out of tune for any period of time, it gave me a headache. I'm happy with relative pitch...
Agreed, relative pitch works for me. Relative pitch is most important to use since most of us play in ensembles consisting mostly of mere mortals... Relative works well in this context.
@Dr-Mark said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:
@Kehaulani
Where in the world will a person use a triple high C?
To call their dogs in their neighborhood?
@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:
If you make the dog any more real looking than it is, it just might bite you in the ass...
It might, as I just cleaned up its poop!
@Dr-Mark said in Where Are You From?:
I'm a Mountaineer,
Song?
Take Me Home Country Roads
Okay but post your favorite version that best expresses the true feeling of home. It is a beautiful song and your choice of home feel would be special.
barliman2001. I am wishing you speedy recovery from your urgent medical matter. Thoughts of healing are going out to you. Glad to hear it's not Corona. Have been loosing some good musicians to that one. Hopefully this malady you will beat in now time and will have a speedy recovery!
@Dr-Mark said in Unbelievable. Too young and for no reason.:
@flugelgirl
A fellow West Virginian, Bill Withers has just passed.
Just damned.
Ain't no sunshine since he's gone.
@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:
Here are some subtle finishing touches. I think I may be done with it, but I will wait a while to decide...
Looks dog-gone-good to me. Nothing fur-ther needs to be done from my prospective.
@Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:
"I am vehemently opposed to the 'common ground argument' of the (EEE) action of the tongue for the upper register combined with the relative jaw motion because:
A. Raising the tongue to the EE position raises the floor of the oral cavity and thus cuts the oral cavity approximately in half.
Result 1: Vibration is inhibited and muffled in the smaller chamber, leaving a smaller, basic sound to be amplified by the instrument.
Result 2: EEE position of tongue prevents cheek muscles from fighting or resisting air column in the mouth cavity because the air column doesn't reach the cheek muscle. Lip tensions therefore become strained.
Result 3: EEE position of tongue causes air leakage through nasal passage, reducing needed compression at the lips (I would say that 100% of the players that articulate EEE leak air through the nose at the peak of their range"...
End quote of Roy Stevens up to that point...
Sound-Advice... This to meee reads as one dimensional reasoning.
Result 1: Vibration is not a function of chamber volume alone. You cannot forget about the pressure wave within the chamber and the ability of the smaller volume to allow pressure to work in favor vibratory support. (Also the MRI video disproves this read)
Result 2: EEE position of tongue and on influence on cheek function, cranial nerve 12 is independent of cranial nerve 5. If you have not had a stroke (maybe this is Roy Stevens problem) the tongue position had no control override of a person's ability to compensate with cranial nerve control. I'm a physician, don't mess with me man when it comes to physiology of the oral cavity.
Result 3: Nose leakage? Really? Another independent neurological control, cranial nerve 10. We, as humans, have counter regulatory control over these strictures to protect for these actions. So to quote Monty Python: I blow my nose at you!
@Kehaulani said in CLEAN YOUR HORN!:
... having less resistance from the sudden absence of junk in it = change in pulmonary airway from aerosolization of growth in the brass"
This is an appropriate English to Medical Language translation.
@Kehaulani said in CLEAN YOUR HORN!:
I cleaned out my trumpet once. Green slime came out of it. My range dropped a fourth!
My concern here was, did the range decline come from horn changes or the change in pulmonary airway from aerosolization of growth in the brass?
@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
Lockdown With Essential Services Only
Social Distancing... For Sure!!
It was just announced, he died of pneumonia and his Covid-19 testing was positive.
Just found this song about my town, Dayton Ohio. It pretty much gives a good feeling of the peacefulness here. Got me thinking, if you are from a city that has a song that represents it, then please, post it here.
Anyway, here is Dayton Ohio, 1903 but Randy Newman
I remember when in medical school, I had heard that a trumpet player named Wynton Marsalis was up for two Grammy awards and was to play a concert earlier in that same week at Gilly's, a jazz club in Dayton Ohio. I knew I just had to see this up and coming musician. On the bill with Wynton was a brother named Branford, and their father Ellis. What an amazing treat. Ellis was so amazing of a leader, and quit a humor at introducing songs. He also stopped a song in mid-intro when the bass player was not putting down the lines quit right, apologized to the audience, gave a nurturing lecture to the bassist as to the line he intended, and restarted the song in perfect style. What an educator and professional.
Oh by the way, the price I paid for that ticket: $6.00! Later that week, Wynton won his first two Grammy awards, one in classical, the other in jazz. Price of tickets to see Wynton went up soon thereafter, for sure!
Ellis Marsalis has passed at the age of 85.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/ellis-marsalis-jazz-master-and-musical-family-patriarch-dies-at-85/289-36114b72-6c41-40cb-8639-4012612e7a14?fbclid=IwAR1iPY6CstT4DeBQwKcTRoN2V-itbyANNCNDsd9tWfb-BKHfN_PMA0dMfjM
@flugelgirl said in Unbelievable. Too young and for no reason.:
A great loss to the Jazz community. Youth may not be invincible, but he was hardly young at 59. Still too young to leave us, though. I got to play one of his horns once, closest I ever got to seeing him, but I think he has a newish album out?was planning on looking it up.
He does. It is a tribute album to Miles.
Holly $hit. This is just unbelievable! First Roy Hargrove, and now Wallace Roney. Youth is not invincible! And just when I had a theory that playing the trumpet would help be an asset to beating that disease. Man, this has really thrown me for a loop. Thanks Kehaulani for the update. Just blown away by this!
Thanks for the Roy Stevens summary Dr. Mark. Much easier to see his thoughts in this context.
