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    Posts made by Dr GO

    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      @Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:
      ...Cheek it out; see if I'm wrong. Play your highest note and while sustaining it have someone Pinch your nostrils, or do it yourself with your free hand, and notice how the sound changes.)

      You are right again, and when I did as you said (after eating a bowel of chili for dinner) had an embarrassing moment in front of my wife as she held my nostrils... as I did cheek it out...🙄

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues

      Just got word that my Easter gig is still on. The pastor is going to record the Easter service including my performance on Friday before Easter then steam the service on their Facebook page on Easter Sunday. I am sending my performance contract this evening.

      posted in Lounge
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    • RE: A little humour

      @Kehaulani said in A little humour:

      The sad thing is that others are, and if you don't stock up, yourself, they may deprive you of some when you routinely need some.

      It's like New Years' Eve. I'm not afraid I can't handle drinking. I'm afraid of all the others who can't handle their's. "Amateur's Night."

      Sooner or later I handle both versions of alcohol use in my medical practice. Wish I didn't have to.

      posted in Lounge
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

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

      Mark, MD.


      Sorry Sound-Advice but I'm not from Maryland

      Trumpet MD is (TMD). Stay safe Mike!

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

      I have had interesting musician interactions in my past, never physical, but painful in other ways.

      HOWEVER

      Interactions with physicians are orders of magnitude worse... and many of the times, at the expense of the patient, in more then one case, that was harmed by a warring physician. In the face of trying to maintain professionalism, I resolve these conflicts, not by physical force but by taking legal and legislative action.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

      At the risk of ruining my record, I have been practicing pediatrics now for 39 years and have yet to be hit by the golden stream of a male infant... however, my nurse is rooming a 2 month old for a well visit as I type this... wish me luck!

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      Yep, musicians tend to piss me off faster than most groups.

      In pediatrics, we have a saying... Better to be pissed off, then pissed on.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: A little humour

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      posted in Lounge
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      Dr GO,

      Thank you for your response. I'll get back to you tomorrow. As now? I really am burnt out. Appreciate everyone here! You've all been so nice. Esp since I'm so new to the forum.

      Looking forward to it. We ALL learn from each others' input and that is what I truly love about this forum. Great to have you on board as such a positive learning force!

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

      @Sound-Advice said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:
      Or a big difference between the regular facial skin and the "red" of the lip. Indeed quite a number of brass playing systems that teach high notes are either intentionally or subconsciously trying to get us to "pooch" out more inner upper lip flesh into the mouthpiece. Maggio was well know for this. And in the early days of my career Louis Maggio's "monkey lips" pucker brought out my first truly good high notes. High G anyway. It wasn't until some years later that I discovered this to be a "finite" or limited range setting for me.

      Thank you!

      The Maggio "monkey lips" method is less about range acquisition as it is about playing with more muscle efficiency. With the Maggio method, you really end up recruiting more facial muscle to support the orbicularis muscle, the ultimate muscles required for vibrating the tissue creating the sound wave, and has much less to do with how much "red" of the lip is involved. So I see this method less about increasing range but more about increasing endurance. HOWEVER with that said, the more endurance one has, the more support that individual has in improving range.

      As Dr. Mark alluded to, it is more about relaxing the muscles that are required to produce range than it is about muscle force. This is what the Maggio method accomplishes. When you have muscle that fatigues less, you do not have to provide increasing pressure with the mouthpiece to try to artificially keep muscle fasciculation. vibrating at a higher rate. HOWEVER if the habit is to still cram the mouthpiece into the lips, you do 2 negative things. You decrease the ability to achieve the same level of vibration frequency making it harder for the lips to perform against increasing force AND you decrease blood flow to the lips, leading to rapid development of fatigue. Double defeat for what ever method, yes even the Maggio method, is used.

      AND AGAIN, You're welcome.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      But this didn't make Roy Stevens wrong. It just made his method INCOMPLETE!!

      Thank you!

      I agree. Roy Stevens is not wrong. That method may not be right for everyone. I think we cross dangerous lines when we call one person wrong and then tout another method as the ONLY method.

      I am a physician that practices internal medicine and pediatrics, and I have a different approach that I use on adults then on children for the same disease process. Why? Because the physiology underlying the process are at different points, and the ability to comply are at different levels. My approach to each specialty is also a melding of my many many clinical mentors I trained under during my many years in medical school and residency.

      The experience embouchure performance parallels such an experience very closely. Through maturity, the pediatric patient becomes the adult patient. Through maturity, the novice trumpet player becomes the professional trumpet player. My many many mentors in classical and jazz training also indirectly taught me the basics that allowed me to adapt a more mature method to playing.

      And, You're welcome.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Let's Have Some Fun!

      @Dr-Mark said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      @ROWUK said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      Actually the articulation is not usually "slurred" at all. Te-re, te-re, te-re.


      That's been my experience with Bach.

      Perhaps Vulgano Brother will take it Bach... Yes?

      posted in Classical / Orchestral
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    • RE: Laughter is the Best Medicine

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      posted in Medical Concerns
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    • RE: A little humour

      @J-Jericho said in A little humour:

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      Gotta be true as J-Jericho really knows his $hit!

      posted in Lounge
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    • RE: How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?

      posted in Lounge
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      ...the elasticity of the vibrating point on their upper lip isn't conducive to working well in a forward jaw position ON EXISTING STOCK TRUMPET MOUTHPIECES!

      Sound advice... could you elaborate on this comment... and reflect on what mouthpiece adaptations may assist in vibratory performance.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!

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

      @Dr-Mark

      I still hold the belief that the Stevens-Costello method is fundamentally the most correct way to both play and teach the trumpet. The only inherent weakness to the system is that it wasn't aware of one certain condition present in a lot of trumpet players.

      I think the most profound and a focusing tip for all from the Stevens-Costello publication is the statement, "Do not be discouraged if these notes refuse to respond immediately. The more experimenting you do, the greater lip knowledge will be acquired.

      This is the universal truth to ANY method a person chooses to use. One method does not fit all, but experimentation to what eventually fits the individual performer is key. It takes many hours and hours of wood shedding to get to this point, but the spoils of conquering the quest is worth this effort.

      posted in Range
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    • RE: Let's Have Some Fun!

      @edfitzvb said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      @Dr-GO said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      @djeffers78 said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      I personally enjoy the natural trumpet selections on this piece. Something just fits better

      I personally enjoyed the 6 naked super models!

      You are a better man than I. I was exhausted after four.

      Circular breathing is key!

      posted in Classical / Orchestral
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    • RE: Let's Have Some Fun!

      @Dr-Mark said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      @ROWUK said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      if in concert pitch a 7th higher.


      Yes, I think you're right. The register it's written in allows a mortal to play it. Its usually played on a picc which is an unruly instrument when compared to a C or Bb trumpet.

      I could play it in the original with my Harrelson and one lip tied behind my back!

      posted in Classical / Orchestral
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    • RE: Let's Have Some Fun!

      @djeffers78 said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

      I personally enjoy the natural trumpet selections on this piece. Something just fits better

      I personally enjoyed the 6 naked super models!

      posted in Classical / Orchestral
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