Posts made by Dr GO

I am going to request the administrator connect with you FrankinD as you are just becoming too confrontational to this thread and now you need to be reeled in.

@FranklinD said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

To be clear: I completely agree with the post of Rowuk about this subject, as well as about the mechanics, evolution instead of revolution, as well as about the (lack of) necessity of the extreme high register for different type of players.
Personally I would love to have an open and broad high register up to a high G, above high C. For me that's the regular range of a B-flat trumpet. But that will take some more time for me, I'm afraid, evolutions don't go fast. And I invest now mainly in articulation and above all my love for the trumpet is 100% based on my search for the purity of tone, that's my drive. And not the applause of a bunch of high school kids after another DHC.

FranklinD, lets agree to agree... together. I am with you on this, OK. Rowuk and Dr. Mark are on the right track. And yes it does take time to open and develop a broad higher register, and yes this takes time, when using suggestions by Rowuk and Dr. Mark. So keep reading on and absorb the amazing expertise of the aforementioned members here on TB, and please do not let your anger of the medical profession cloud your ability to learn here, and yes, physicians are fallible, and to think otherwise would be fallacy.

An innovator in many ways, beyond his performance tribute. His work in the recording industry in supporting up and coming artists is truly amazing. His venture into hip hop shows as well his forward thinking to constantly evolve, and clearly his age does not interfere with this process.

@FranklinD said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

So dr. Go, your whole discussion of the use of the tongue is senseless. That will go on in the yes-no mode forever. If this discussion can have any benefit it's about the extreme high register an sich, is it useful for??? Is it necessary for?? Is it reachable for??? Is it worth a lifetime quest?? Is it a trick or is it evolution??? and so on. That questions are interesting not the bragging things.

Ah... I believe Dr. Mark very nicely first started bringing up the tongue relevance (I refer you to post 20). I do not think Dr. Mark bringing this issue to light is the least bit senseless. My contribution to this ongoing discussion was to support his position with somne medical evidence. I do not think discussing the use of the tongue is senseless at all, as this discussion brings science, physiology and trumpet performance to a higher level, unless of course your above commentary as more tongue in cheek.

@stumac said in Garth Brooks Gershwin Award:

Not available in Australia due to rights restrictions.

What? Australia is Not Southern enough!

@Dr-Mark said in Julian Zimmermann has started a new series on the history of the trumpet:

@barliman2001
Here's strain.

I am just glade this was done in the DESIGNATED SMOKING AREA.

Again, getting back on tract, Sound-Advice, any supportive evidence you have in going through extreme registers without the use of his tongue? I am still baffled by this concept, in light of how the normal physiology of the oropharynx, motor coordination of the embouchure, and respiratory control would suggest otherwise.

I believe she made chocolates too:

@Kehaulani said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

@Dr-GO said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

Why a white horse? There would be more contrast against a dark background, yes?

Shows how we can make automatic assumptions based on our race. Who says she was white?

Not race based issue at all, more historically based. I assumed you were referring to the standard from your friend's quote.

In context; I believe this is the standard to which your friend referred:

@Dr-Mark said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

@Kehaulani said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

"What will this mean to a nude lady riding a white horse ten years from now?".

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It means she can sit upon her horse and still have both cheeks of her ass intact.

Does that define bareback?

@Kehaulani said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

I had a friend who used to say, "What will this mean to a nude lady riding a white horse ten years from now?".

Why a white horse? There would be more contrast against a dark background, yes?

@Dr-Mark said in Change in paradigm?:

@grune
Change in paradigm? Maybe.
...you can hand a skilled trumpet player a 1953 Martin Committee, chances are they'll try to sound like Miles... If you hand a skilled trumpet player a Monette or Harrelson, they'll probably sound more like themselves.

True, but having both (Committee and Harrelson) my individual voice has a softer edge (not Miles dark, but softer) as a result of the Committee. The quality of the Committee taught me to hold back on the Harrelson, or I would otherwise start to burn as cutting loose on such a new age performing horn could take my voice to a place I'd rather not go.

@Kehaulani said in Change in paradigm?:

...I realized that last 50 year clump wasn't in the historic, distant past. It was within my lifetime!

Ah, but the key is life!

@Dr-Mark said in The New Reality:

@Dr-GO said in The New Reality:

you cannot spell virus without U and I.

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germ?

When in the ER.

Of course for patients that I need to be discrete with (especially my pediatric population) I try to ease the stress behind our illness visit with the line:

Glad you took the special time for a personal visit today, because you cannot spell virus without U and I.

For patients that do come in to see me at the practice, I developed a welcome line to breakthrough the stress:

Is that hand sanitizer in your pocket or are you just happy to be within 6 ft of me?

In my other career, I am still going into my medical practice, but seeing most patients (especially patients with respiratory illness and fever) at their homes through Zoom, that uses their cell phone or lap top computer camera feature projected onto my laptop. It is amazing how many patients have home BP cuffs, that we are able to get vitals and temperatures for our online visit.

If patients need scripts (in Ohio for controlled substances) they drive into the parking lot and scripts are delivered through their car window. If they need lab or x-ray testing, they drive in one at a time and are chaperoned at six feet distances into the testing are where staff are gowned, gloved and masked.

The Federal Government has relaxed HIPAA standards and most insurance companies now allow for billing for this Telemedicine practice. The New Reality for physicians.

@Dr-Mark said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

Embouchure opening = The aperture, right?
All notes are determined by the size of the aperture... The higher we go, the smaller the aperture. Now, imagine how small an aperture needs to be to sound a DHC. Along with being bloody small (which means that the hole will be harder to buzz), a person needs to use less air to play it... How do we do that?

Pv = nRT. While air is not an ideal gas, it has a similar relationship when you solve for volume: v= nRT/P. When volume is increasing (in the numerator) on the left, that means pressure (p), in the denominator on the right needs to increase to support a smaller volume.

In medicine, we do this with PEEP... Positive End Expiatory Pressure. In the intensive care unit (ICU) we use machine settings to set the pressure/volume relationships and have a special knob for PEEP. As individual persons, we can generate this PEEP with the correct intercostal thoracic muscles and abdominal muscle against the back pressure of the mouth volume controlled BY THE TONGUE.

PLEASE READ THAT LAST COMMENT CAREFULLY. I AM NOT SAYING WE NEED TO BLOW HARD. That will defeat the purpose, as you need to RELAX the lips for a higher frequency vibration which is a function of the embouchure and mouthpiece pressure the performer chooses.

For the past 4 years, I have put in about an hour of weight lifting and isometric exercises EVERY DAY to accomplish this task. It works. By developing (and feeling) that pressure reserve (PEEP) behind the air column generated by chest and abdominal muscle I can play more relaxed from all the musculature in the pharynx, that includes tongue, facial and lip muscles.

Waiting for ROWUK to chastise me for yet another method to play lead, but this is not just for lead playing, it has produced for me a more relaxed voice at whatever range I play in. All those years in the ICU and using PEEP to bring patients back from certain doom works in health as well.

By the way, PEEP is THE DRUG physicians are using to keep Covid-19 patients alive in the ICU. Before I get criticized on this, I challenge any person to reply to first spend a devoted year of a residency training managing ICU patients and experiencing how these concepts work. Walk a year in my shoes, and you will understand why this concepts works, OK?

@Dr-Mark said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

I still stand by my point that the tongue is paramount for changing registers... I would watch a video that shows a person (like Sarah was shown) keeping their tongue flat on the mouth's floor and changing registers.

I so agree. I believe this is a key feature to optimize this task.