Best posts made by Kehaulani

Want to clean out a room? Eat a Burrito before you set up that chair and music stand.

Beating swords into plowshares.

Super-human task. Congratulations.

@Niner said in What Is A Good Practice Routine?:

I don't belong to any band. There are no "gigs". I'm not a "serious" player. I don't do "technical exercises" and I wouldn't be doing any lip slur or tongue exercises on a bet. I find myself getting better progressively anyway. I have accumulated lots of written music and approach each secession much like a sight reading contest to a large extent. I pick up one thin or thick book as the spirit moves and flip to any page an start playing. I might play the whole tune, or not, and then flip a page and try another. I might go back to one I wasn't performing close enough to right in the same session and try it again a time or two. I change horns every few numbers as well as mouthpiece. If over time my mastery of any tune seems better...and it does.... I'm happy.

Serious question. Can one progress and build this way?

@Mike-Ansberry said in Soon to be my new Bobby Herriot model Getzen:

Have you played one? They are one of the unicorn trumpets.

So, are you telling me you blow unicorns?

@administrator
DMA carries with it a title of Doctor. You may not wish to use it and even the owner may not to wish it, but it is still an earned title and the bearers have a right to use it instead of Mister. Also, employment, or lack thereof, does not imply competency.

Do they have something against easily readable print? Gad.

Small steps to Giant Steps:

Tune Up by Edie Vinson - original form is reharmonized to:
Countdown (Coltrane), which leads to:
Giant Steps.

Check them out. Might make it an easier progression than tackling Giant Steps cold turkey.

@Tobylou8 said in Soon to be my new Bobby Herriot model Getzen:

He's on hiatus for the foreseeable future due to work load.

I would be surprised if that was the only reason.

If the question was what did Arnold mean, I would think one answer is HOW you sleep, not how long. Some people take longer than others to get to sleep, so their nine hours may actually be less quality than a six-hour sleeper. Or some "sleep" restlessly all night, while others sleep instantly.

Personally, I have spent most of my life going on about six hours of sleep a night but I fall asleep instantly.

The thread title is a little misleading to me. "Wynton Marsalis to help . . '. This is not a magnanimous gift. It's a gig.

There's still some resentment these days but not like it used to be.

I heard some snarky comments about Carole Dawn Reinhart (Vienna) by a rather visible and successful player in Germany that I wasn't sure was racist or sexist. Knowing the
German trumpet player, probably both. But my point is that, even in this day and even after reaching the heights of internationally known soloist as well as Professor at the University of Music in Vienna, she still gets sexist comments.

In the past, I remember in high school, one of the best trumpet players in the state was convinced by her trumpet teacher to switch in her senior year to Horn because she "didn't have any balls". Getting the last laugh, she went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Pure prejudice.

Professionally, I have worked with female brass players and, musically, I heard a variety of styles but never heard any general playing characteristics I could attribute to their being female.

I hate you! Signed jealous in Austin.

Thanks for your update; looking forward to more.

A hip replacement? Too much Kenny G or Andre Rieu?

Improvisation is a 360 degree activity. It doesn't have to be, though. We live in a melody/background environment. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. It's just richer doing the former.

Not to be glib, but targeting your audience and giving them quality music.

@stumac said in New to my collection:

Dr Go, known as the French rim.

Don't say French rim when a man's down.

@GeorgeB said in Embouchure Dystonia:

@Kehaulani
Yeah I am trying not to overthink it. There are no chop doctors nor are there any teachers in my neck of the woods, but there is a doctor member of the band who I will be seeing.

Check out John Mohan (Claude Gordon teacher). You can contact him through his account on Trumpet Herald under the Claude Gordon forum. He teaches by Skype.

(BTW, his wife is German, as is mine, so . . . extra points, )

Good Lord, Jazz is an aural art, more connected to the physicality and rhythms of a basketball court than to a scientific micro-analysis.

You listen, get the rhythm in your bones, and, in the words of Clark Terry, "Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate".

What I mean is
1.) practice and
2.) be introspective in evaluating what the notes really mean, technically and musically.