Posts made by Dr GO

@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.

Other Italian trumpet sensations:

Both of these two performers has an Italian parent, and both spent some of their time growing up in Italy. One is known as an American, the other as a German performer, but they also share amazing Italian trumpet genes!

In addition, do you have to be a 1st Trumpet player to be a leader? Absolutely not. I remember a post by Vulgano Brother relating a time when he played 3rd trumpet in the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and made the comment that at times he had to subtly real the 1st Trumpet player in at times. Now that takes leadership!

@ROWUK said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

My own teaching searches for the goals of the player. If one of my students wants to be a lead player, then I am the wrong person to bring them there. ...they need a real lead player for attitude and context...

Don't sell yourself short, ROWUK. Where does it state "Lead Trumpet" on my Big Band Chart? It doesn't. It states "1st Trumpet".

I have had great success as a "First Trumpet Big Band Performer", because I was taught by a First Trumpet player for the CSO over 4 years. Eugene Blee thought me how to be a first trumpet player. To lead a section through dynamics, phrasing, style. He taught me: "You lead others to follow". Eugene did not teach me to play high. He taught me to play best. He did not teach me to play loud skillfully. He taught me to play soft skilllfully. ROWUK, You are the right person to take them there because you too are there to teach a trumpet player to be a leader, not a Lead Player. So don't sell yourself short. If one of your students decides to play 1st Trumpet in a Big Band and truly play Lead, then you have been successful!

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

If people will observe how Sarah manipulates the oral cavity with her tongue from a more open oral cavity (low notes) to an oral cavity that's filled with tongue starting at 1:48 (5. Slurred ascending E flat 4 octave harmonic scale), they will notice that Sarah (A fantastic player!!) does with her tongue exactly what I've been saying. This should put this discussion to rest.

As they say in the sciences, Dr. Mark... QED.
or in the arts: Bravo, maestro!

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

@Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

Facts and science won't sway a person who's mind is already made up anyway.

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...he agreed that he was using the back of his tongue to manipulate the oral cavity but leaving the front of his tongue "anchored" to the floor of the mouth with the tip of the tongue against the front lower teeth. By changing the size of the oral cavity space with the tongue we are able to speed up and slow down the air used to make a note.

I think this is nicely demonstrated in this radiological enhanced electrode monitoring of the tongue (from a lateral and a straight on perspective}. I believe this demonstrates Dr. Mark's point nicely:

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

@Sound-Advice
OK, I just tried the "pinch the nose and use an "EEEE" position with the tongue.
The tongue is anchored to the bottom of the mouth and the BACK OF THE TONGUE increases and decreases the oral cavity space which assists with range.

I believe this is nicely demonstrated in the MRI below. Watch not only the tongue as range increases, but also the distal pharynx close more, all to decrease the entire volume of air in the oropharynx:

@Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

@Dr-Mark

I know that when I used to play Maggio on receded jaw chops that syllable use had some value for my production of lip trills and interval changes. But having crossed over into the world of Stevens-Costello? It is of no help. It's just not necessary. If I want to execute a lip trill I move my jaw ever so slightly up and down.

Sound Advice... I appreciate you can do this, and this is the same way I execute my lip trill while also using a more user friendly Maggio version.

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

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

FranklinD, Kehaulani, Sound-Advice have all made comment on this post related to doctors, so I just thought I would take an opportunity to address and clarify as a friendly service offered by we member of TB.
And for clarification, we are talking about people and not animals so I believe you may have meant humandegree rather than pedigree, yes? On that note though, I did have a cheek swab performed on my daughter sent to BioPet. She came back Pitbull. I trained her well. She is now by the way, an MS Social Worker, a human degree.

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The discussion is about trumpet. In particular, The Stevens-Costello method and what's going on behind the aperture.

Perfect. And that discussion shall continue. Going on behind the aperture is truly your specialty and I always review your response with great interest as your detail is defining. Keep up the great work Herr Doktor!

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

@Kehaulani
Who gives a flying rat's ass about anyone's pedigree?"

FranklinD, Kehaulani, Sound-Advice have all made comment on this post related to doctors, so I just thought I would take an opportunity to address and clarify as a friendly service offered by we member of TB.

And for clarification, we are talking about people and not animals so I believe you may have meant humandegree rather than pedigree, yes? On that note though, I did have a cheek swab performed on my daughter sent to BioPet. She came back Pitbull. I trained her well. She is now by the way, an MS Social Worker, a human degree.

@FranklinD said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

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

And I believe Dr-Mark is a psychologist.

Is a psychologist a Dr. in the USA?

Psychologist are doctors when they receive either a PhD or PsychD which is also known as a clinical psychologist.

Actually from the German origin a doctor (Doktor) is an advanced degree professional, a physician is Der Artz (not Doktor). So here in the US I tell people that I have a PhD so am a REAL doctor!

@Sound-Advice

As I am aware at present, there are 4 physicians (MDs) that post here:

tmd - and internist and emergency medicine physician (that happens to practice in Maryland (MD)) so should he be tmdmd?
Dr. GO - an internist, pediatrician and pharmacologist (PhD as well)
SSmith1226 - a general surgeon
Curly Doc - a pathologist (PhD as well)

And I believe Dr-Mark is a psychologist.