Posts made by Dr GO

@GeorgeB said in Fast Tempo and old farts:

Jim,
...I don't think as fast as I used to, and this is more noticeable with each passing year. It happens with age...

And that is why God created muscle memory.

Jazz Jam cut from this past Thursday at Dayton's Wholly Grounds:
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You know GoergeB, a lot of the goal to success is to also surmount the mental component. I remember preparing for one of my classical lessons a passage that I continually flubbed up once I placed it back into context after rehearsing the actual phrase to perfection. My teacher said, you have predetermined to screw that passage up in your mind.

So my teacher gave me a challenge. He told me to pick a bar or two past the difficult passage and tell myself that I was really going to screw up that passage. So I played into the piece concentrating on screwing up a passage further into the song. And don't cha know, I made it through that passage perfectly. Thereafter, the piece was no longer a problem.

@GeorgeB said in For Martin lovers:

So, Doc, you were a new-born innocent babe in 1955...

Newborn... yes... innocent? I'll let members here be the judge of that...

AFTER ALL I have the distinction of being the only Trumpetboard member to have been banned from the site!

Also interesting the article came out the year of my birth. Great things truly happening in 1955!

Interesting that the Committee was being promoted to make the high range more possible. It does, at least for me as well and the horn tends to brighten and lighten up from it's darker lower register characteristics at the to of the staff. That F is the doorway to a brighter horn, for sure.

@FranklinD said in Wanna hear an amazing solo by Chet?:

Yes, on the Japan tour Chet played with a Dutch bass player and drummer cause he lived in Amsterdam then. They are great and very experienced players BTW. They had him on a complete methadon program that is quite standard in Holland but was less easy in Japan but they made it.

So sad he could not stay on that program. And today the success rate of Suboxone and counseling is over 80%! This is why I expanded my DEA license to include the Subpxone waver. So now I have the XO- notification in front of me DEA number.

@stumac said in New to my collection:

Lovely horn George, enjoy.

Dr Go, known as the French rim... all had a conventional roll.

Ummmm.... Love French pastry! Even conventional rolls! Ummmmm.....

@GeorgeB said in Wanna hear an amazing solo by Chet?:

@Kehaulani

What an amazing talent he was. But you know, whenever I listen to his music or watch his videos, I always come away feeling a heavy sadness in my heart.

Playing on through these trumpet licks is the easy part. Coming off from the addiction is nearly impossible. Chet, like so many other in the era, just did not have time or the support needed to survive the latter challenge.

Interesting bell rim. Likely a significant influence on the tone.

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:
Then, of course, there’s shrinkage

Not with a water nymph.

She was more of a beer nymph. No shrinkage. Just consumption of the head.

@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

You're missing the nude girl emerging from the water.

No he's not missing the nude girl. We are in the back in the woods together... in front of the pine tree, behind the rock, covering our water immersion.

@Kehaulani said in Fast Tempo and old farts:

@Rapier232 said in Fast Tempo and old farts:

@Kehaulani

Yes, I bought one a few months ago. No trumpet valve combinations to worry about, just slide positions. Much easier to move my arm.

Yes, it is easier to physically move my arm than a combination of fingers. But that doesn't make it overall easier to get around on. And I was posting as a post stroke victim where it is, in fact, easier to use large arm movements than fine finger motions.

To be medically correct, it is physically easier to move fingers (less muscle mass). It is NEUROLOGICALLY easier to move your arm than a combination of fingers (less distal neuronal synapses).

My thoughts on all of this:

Don't play the passage too slow or too fast, but rather....

Play it half-fast.

@Kehaulani said in Anyone Know Who Played This?:

BTW, Word record was a "Christian" music company from Nashville. (Always wondered why Handel's Messiah wasn't classified as "Christian Music". What was it, Buddhist?)

Just couldn't get a Handle on how to classify it. Maybe some day then we can all breathe a Messiah releaf!

But hmmm. Would my paintings be worth more?

He's not quite dead yet!

How are trumpet players like pirates?

They both murder on the high C's.