Damn, man. Do they know what caused it?
And choosing Munchen was definitely the right thing to do. Maybe you would get first-class work in Roma but provincial Italy? No offense to anyone, but I don't think so.
My best wishes and healing thoughts for your safety during the operation and best healing wishes for your recovery.
All my best!
So. I guess you don't enjoy the development section of a Beethoven String Quartet, LOL.
This is off-topic, but for those who might benefit - the trick to sight-reading is to be reading ahead of what you're playing. It also helps to be able to know a compendium of most-used rhythmic patterns. You then see the rhythms ahead of time and match pitches to them when the time comes.
Know your scales. If you're in the key of Eb and see a run from D to D with an Eb, Ab and a Bb in it, don't think of it as D to D run concentrating on playing the chromatics, but just see it as one unit, that of a run from D to D in the key of Eb. Know your scales and how to read them.
Looks like a lot of fun.
I wonder at what point Americans will acknowledge that there is a difference between Prussian music, Bohemian Music and Bavarian Music. Bavarian Music is not German Music. FWIW,
If I were you, I'd contact James Becker at Osmund Music. He recently got a Capri first-valve-slide trigger from Getzen and installed it on my Classic. He does excellent work and is well connected.
I am the school of, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I oil as necessary.
BTW, taking flugelgirls suggestion, I have switched from Hetman to berp products mainly because they last longer and I'm lazy.
In that general genre, do you know:
Charles Tolliver
Ira Sullivan
Kenny Dorham
Dizzy Reece
Booker Little
I would add that, once you have associated the modes with the scale degrees of a particular scale (C Ionian, D Dorian, E Phrygian etc.) you need to run all mode forms using the same root, i.e. C Ionian, C Dorian, C Phrygian and so forth.
It took me a while before I intuitively arrived at releasing the beginning of the note with the change point between inhale/exhale. I did it a long time before I knew I was doing it, and that tangible realization came about when I was teaching winds. Sometimes the process is reversed. In having to articulate things for a student, you can find ways of verbalizing things you've been doing all along but just didn't stop to reflect on the process.
I don't think this is anything new but it is a nice way of consolidating and presenting the technique. This is a nice, clear way of articulating exactly what you're doing and how you do it. Nice, rowuk.