Posts made by GeorgeB

Thanks , Kehaulani. Sounds like good advice.
I'm not sure I am ready for it. I'm playing in a band with tougher material now. Our practice sessions run 90 minutes and most times I can get through that okay, but when we perform, some gigs are 2 hours and my endurance is not there yet. I thought this exercise might help, but maybe I should just work my way slowly into that extra 30 minutes over time. Because of my age, I am allowed to take breaks when I need them, so I am not under the gun or anything.

@OldKing said in "Ugliest" exercise?:

@Kehaulani said in "Ugliest" exercise?:

What is "Shilke Power", please? Thanks.

[link text]http://everythingtrumpet.com/schilke/Power_Exercise.html

Thanks for that link. I will add the 5 minutes to my daily routine. Wondering though, should it be before, after or in the middle of my regular 5 am one hour practice session. I would also have to use a mute to play ff at 5 am if that would work, otherwise it would have to be done in the afternoon.

Any idea, Kehaulani ?

@J-Jericho

When I first took lessons ( 1953) the only thing I remember is the prof. of music at the conservatory saying " place the damn thing where it works ". I have never measured it, but I would say it is a bit more on the lower lip than the top. That position back then, and now about 54 years later still in that same position. It works so I ain't messing with it.

@Three-Sevens said in Exercises for super fast tonguing:

@lukarino

Could you reference the Vizzuti book title. I'm very interested!

Mike

Yes, me too.

I've been playing for 3 years now after a 50 year hiatus. At first I was lucky if I could play 10 minutes. It just takes time and a regular practice schedule along with playing lots of tunes. Our band has a 90 minute practice and when I first joined a month ago it was a real test of my endurance. Now the last piece we do doesn't sound that great at my end, but it just gets stronger. The one thing I do every afternoon is play songs for 60 minutes and the only rest I take is the time it takes to change the music on the stand, or take a sip of water. Work on it. Your endurance will come.

@Tobylou8 said in Exercises for super fast tonguing:

@GeorgeB said in Exercises for super fast tonguing:

@Tobylou8
There is a youtube of the arrangement we use done by The Coldstream Guards.
The video of suggested exercises you posted is actually slower in tempo than our arrangement of Bogey. I have been playing those in the Bogey march over and over but it sounds spitty and not really sharp. Thanks for you suggestion, though.

Maybe double tonguing will get it done. If this is the part you're talking about at 2:00 then ta-ka ta-ka double tongue is what I'd do. And now I remember playing this arrangement too! It can be a tongue twister for sure!

Yep, that's it, and your suggestion of double tonguing is worth a try. Anyway, it sure is hard on my 83 year old tongue..LOL

@adc
Thanks, I need all the luck I can get...

@Tobylou8
There is a youtube of the arrangement we use done by The Coldstream Guards.
The video of suggested exercises you posted is actually slower in tempo than our arrangement of Bogey. I have been playing those in the Bogey march over and over but it sounds spitty and not really sharp. Thanks for you suggestion, though.

The band I play with is doing a march called Colonel Bogey ( from Bridge On The River Quai ) and the last 66 bars of the march contain a series of four 8th notes played staccato in cut time. My attempts are spitty. Does anyone have a suggested exercise to help develop a nice clean dit dit dit dit.

In my younger playing days I never played marches and at 83 my old tongue just doesn't seem to work that well on the real fast stuff.

Hi, Patrick glad to see you are here at TB.
Yeah, the conductor at practice last night mentioned about Hal. There were so many great session players that are unknown to us.

By the way, there was a documentary on The Wrecking Crew that I never saw. I wonder if this is on dvd ?

Triple C...what the hell is that ??????

Welcome to TB, Doodlin'. Getting a teacher at the outset certainly makes a lot of sense. I'm one of the really old guys here ( 83 ). I came back 3 years ago after a 50 year absence. I played lead for 12 years between 1953 and 1965 with a 5 man combo doing weddings teen dances and what have you. Rarely a weekend without some kind of gig. I feel I am a much smarter player the second time around, but I just wish I had the chops and endureance that kid back then had.

@JorgePD said in Comeback at just the right time!:

@Three-Sevens
Mike great to read your story. I packed up my horn in 1978, with every intention of playing again. I never thought it would take me 40 years to do so. I’m 62 and a few years away from retirement, but my kids are grown and now have some free time. I guess too much free time, a little over a year ago my wife told me I needed to get a hobby! So out came the trumpet. Since then I’ve been practicing on my own about 1 ½ hours almost every day. I’m playing in our local community band that has a great group of musicians (ages 12 to 90!). And two months ago I started taking lessons from a great trumpet teacher. I couldn’t be happier to be back on the trumpet!

Looking forward to being a part of this forum.
Jorge

In my first year back at the age of 80 and after a 50 year hiatus I joined the local Horizons. Now , three years later I am playing with a larger and very busy Brass and Reed orchestra. Playing with others is really important.

@stumac said in Happy Birthday Bix !!!!:

Such a shame he died at 28.

Regards, Stuart.

Today it may have been drugs, but in the 1920s it was booze that took him down. It really was a shame. The book, Young Man With A Horn by Dorothy Baker, was apparently (loosely ) based on the life of Bix . It was made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas as the Bix character ( Rick Martin ). The trumpet playing was done by the great Harry James. Hoagy Carmichael, who co-stars in the movie, was a friend of Bix Beiderdecke and at one time played together.

Great playing for sure, and on a particular ballad I really dig.

Hi, Mike, welcome.

@stumac said in A real OLD comebacker here:

I will be 81 at the end of this month, I feel young compared to a flute player in our Orchestra who is 90 and a visitor to the Big Band a couple of weeks ago, a Clarinet and saxophone player still blowing at 98.

Regards, Stuart.

@stumac said in A real OLD comebacker here:

I will be 81 at the end of this month, I feel young compared to a flute player in our Orchestra who is 90 and a visitor to the Big Band a couple of weeks ago, a Clarinet and saxophone player still blowing at 98.

Regards, Stuart.

Yeah there is a 95 year old chap playing violin for the local classical music orchestra. But no one older than me in the two local bands I have or am playing in.