@Rapier232 said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
I’m sorry. I only speak English.
The Queens English I do believe... Pip Pip Where Lorry ridding in Britain can be a bumpy unpleasant experience, but riding Lorry, my prom date here in the USA, was quit pleasurable.
Finally if you can't play it right and can't play it with feeling, you should go into another field other than music and spare the torturing of music teachers...
or play the viola for the CIA during their spy interrogations
@grune said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
To practice until you cannot play something wrong gives you a base and makes you a technician; not a musician.
The two are not mutually exclusive, because when you play something until you can't get wrong and you do it with feeling then you are an accomplished musician.
However if you play with feeling but just can't get it right, you're a hack. fwiw
I fought like hell to work through my chemistry PhD these that applied quantum chemistry to electron transfer in biological systems. It wasn't until I began to apply my right brain strengths to actually visualize the p and d orbitals (rather than the equations describing them) to actually advance my research toward defending my thesis. It worked well as I was the first in my entering class to get the PhD.
Moral of the story: I believe whatever function an individual's brain is wired to best accomplish, one can use that strength to compensate for the deficits on the other side.
I am more of an accomplished musician than I am a physician. I believe this is because I am more right brain dominate. I just could not relate to many of my physician colleagues that were VERY left brain, and I would acknowledge to them that as a physician, I found it challenging for a right brain person to function in a left brain world.
@Rapier232 said in WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME AN EXPERT?:
...the good young trumpet players I know, tend to have ‘mathematical brains’. I wonder if that lends itself to natural talent/ability aspect of Trumpet playing?
That would tend to blow apart the left brain/right brain theory.
I hear in Joey Alexander's interview that he STARTED playing the piano at age 7. The he became a phenomenon at age 10! There is brain wiring in the equation as well and Joey has wiring that was created truly by God's perfection:
It all boils down to the saying: You practice not until you get it right, but until you cannot get it wrong. That is what it takes to become an expert.
I just checked into the Hokey-Pokey clinic to turn myself around!
@Vulgano-Brother said in A little humour:
@barliman2001 said in A little humour:
In Bavaria, unwary tourists can fall prey to the Wolperdinger, a vicious flesh-eating hare with a roebuck's horns.
Truly makes my hair stand on end! AND not just any bunny can do that!
@GeorgeB said in How many of you taught yourself to play?:
But age did change things for me and there were a few problems that a local semi-pro friend of mine was able to help me with.
Was it age or overuse? I ask this as I have notice aging as a benefit in that experience has provided more keen insight as to how to maintain my steady progress. There was a time I felt aging may have been a feature, then I found through practice and getting help from other trumpet players (many of which are teachers) it was more an efficiency issue.... and wallah! After correcting for inefficiencies, I was young again.
OldSchool! What an amazing summary and chock full of information and leads. VERY HELPFUL post!
@Kehaulani said in Crickets?:
@flugelgirl said in Crickets?:
Many days I finish work and head straight to a gig.
Know the feeling. I once flew all the way from Texas to Germany and went right into a club for gig. Gad!
I have those days too where I leave work right to a rehearsal or gig. I look at this as a positive as it gives me more to look forward to after a hard day at work.
Don't get me wrong, I love my day gig at listening to and helping people work through health, mental and personal problems, but after 9 hours of this, sometimes I like heading out to "blow my brains out"... and I mean this in a GOOD way!
@Dr-Mark said in Structure of the Trumpet by Yamaha:
...for those versed in the science/art of acoustics to speak in common terms... only speak in their particular jargon, then they should seek a website that can help them render their message...
Not so sure the professional needs to seek a website to accomplish this. They merely just need listen and then hear their audience, and then, and only then can they render their message.
This concept I learned from teaching decades of medical students, but even more importantly, by teaching decades of my patients to ultimately strive to keep them in the best of health that is possible, not through my understanding of the disease process but through THEIR understanding of the disease process. No web site has taught me that... What has taught me to do that, is jazz improvisation.
@Dr-GO said in What’s your “sound” and how do you get it?:
My sound is based on the spoken voice. I have built my performance style around the concept that the musical notes are a graphic of the spoken language within sung phrases. So I have developed my trumpet voice upon the human voice and play the words to the song, more than than the notes to the song.
My sound is based on the spoken voice. I have built my performance style around the concept that the musical notes are a graphic of the spoken or sung phrases. So I have developed my trumpet voice upon the human voice and play the words to the song, more than than the notes to the song.
I did not. Started formal training on flutaphone during early grade school that went right into our public school band system, where a Richard Westrich began to instruct me during my first phase of learning. Then classical performance at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
HOWEVER, I was self taught at Rock which started with a band audition while still a student a the University of Cincinnati. It was one of my Rock band mates that challenged me to take formal lessons in jazz. I went back to the College Conservatory of Music and auditioned for jazz lessons before the CCM Jazz Program Director, Frank Brown. He stopped my audition withing minutes of my starting and said, "You don't need jazz studies, you need to be in my Big Band.. So I learned jazz less formally, by playing around others So in that way I guess I started at being self taught. That is until I moved to NYC and then will into my first decade of self taught jazz performance, finally started formal jazz training with Claudio Roditi.
@Kehaulani said in Crickets?:
Let me rub my legs together and see!
Only if you keep them together after the rubbing.
So now I get a ribbing for rubbing!
@Kehaulani said in Crickets?:
Has this site had basically crickets for participants lately or is there something wrong on my end. Inquiring minds want to know?
Let me rub my legs together and see!
