Posts made by Kehaulani

Man, not even an attempt to do this peaceably and with good intentions. How sad. I'm out of here.

Dr. aMark,

Is it possible for you, when confronted with an opinion other than your own, to at least be civil? Is that asking too much?

Jeez, I would never open a response with calling someone's post, which is based on personal experience, as "sheer nonsense". What presumption. If you tell me that something was your experience, who am I to say it wasn't unless, of course, I am arrogant enough to think I know more than you about your own experience.

I said, in my post, that that was my personal experience. I never networked as such, and that is true. I did a good job, got along with my associates and the consequence of that was that I was able to get work. And it's been constant since about 1966.

Your stating that networking is "doing the right thing in front of the right people. Its our responsibility to always be ready." Isn't that exactly what I said? The difference I was pointing out was just a case of how that's done, and I said that I got it done, not by overtly promoting myself or sucking up to anyone, but by doing a good job that people heard about. There's a difference in manner but not end results.

It would be nice if you could read someone's post thoroughly and, if it's not clear, begin by asking for clarification, rather than immediately pounncing like an attack dog.

Just one extra thing, and it may just be a matter of semantics, but for me, networking was never sucking up to someone or meeting the right people. It was a consequence of how and what I produced.

I have excellent contacts but they are just based on knowing what kind of a job I, and my friends, can do. It hit me, and this was later in my career, that networking doesn't necessarily have to be about sucking up, rather a simple matter of common sense. People can't hire you if they don't know who you are.

Just to give an alternate view, I have worked as a full-time musician all my adult life. Schooling was a definite advantage. Sorry it didn't work out for you but it's hardly universal. If the expected outcome is narrow, it's possible that one's cause and effect can be disappointing. If you are versatile and flexible the outcome of your schooling can be different.

It's not a matter of what you can't do, but what you can do. Outlook on life.
Apply yourself, be creative, be flexible and, very important, be ready.

I learned to not let yourself say no but to let them say no.

Just for the record, I have never used my degrees, as is, as a requirement for work. It helped but it was not a requirement. It is what I learned, how I can use that and what contacts I made.

But the largest thing is that I did my Graduate work for me, not for anyone else. And since it was for me, my rewards were internal and I was wiling to live with whatever standards of living and income came as a result of it. That's just how I'm wired.

Got it. Thanks.

I have a retirement income that won't change and my son's job gives him a steady income, but I can't imagine what it would be for a service worker, free-lance musician etc. who's income is suddenly cut off. Man, I feel for those people.

I have two cousins who are free-lance musicians and they are really hurting. Let's keep these kinds of people in mind and maybe restructure some things when this virus has passed that gives them a little more stability if it, or something like it, happens again..

Where does it ask for a paid membership? And membership of what?

Sounds good. I'm in Texas and most people are not wearing masks or keeping social distancing and I just heard on the news that it's third in the nation in rising cases. Since I'm in the most vulnerable demographic, I'm starting to get worried.

You can buy them outside of St. Jacome, too.
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.@ROWUK said in Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues:

Even if we view this in respect to loving our neighbors as ourselves, we realize how selfish and unchristian this behavior is.

And Buddhist and Hindu and Jewish?

To be honest, there is nowhere else that I would like to be than in Germany right now (well, New Zealand is also on the same page). At least there is responsible behavior and government listening to the medical community instead of morons dictating stupidity!

Rowuk, I think the view from afar is enlightening. Maybe it takes an experience of seeing the country from a distance, but we could, but refuse not to, learn a lot from other countries. It's only our arrogance in thinking we're the best at everything that keeps us from having less myopic outlooks.

@Dr-GO said in Covid-19 Closing Down Music Venues:
As a physician. I would like to share some personal patient experiences that I hope gives a sobering perspective to all my musician friends here on TB.

@BigDub said in Railroad Photography:

@Dr-GO

Yes. There is a chance. To quote from the highly acclaimed movie, Dumb and Dumber, “ So, there is a chance?”
I suppose I could, and yes, I see what you mean. This painting is about 40-45 years old and I have no idea who owns it right now. I also have plenty of issues with it, not the least of which is the leaning third car.

Hey, man, you said it was 45 year's old. Everything sags.

@Kehaulani said in Railroad Photography:

A couple of those are right in the pocket of Big Dub's painting technique. You guys might do a collaboration.

I'm talking about something even more internal than that, but that's good point. The proverbial "Tyranny of the Barline".

As we know, phrasing is not so, necessarily, bound by barlines. In Jazz improvisation, one is freer from this rigidity but it applies to "classical" music, as well. A simple example (sorry, I don't know how to create and post my own graphics) is an eighth-note at the end of a bar. We can look at many note groupings and say, that's the end of the phrase, banging a metrical phrase interpreted as barline downbeats. But is it that, or a pick-up note into the next phrase?

Marcel Tabuteau was a master of phrasing and wrote, The Art of Phrasing which is brilliant. Any musician wanting to expand his/her phrasing possibilities and, hence, gain better, more sophisticated, musicianship should read it. This is a good time to do that.

A good alternative is Note Grouping by James Thurmond, which is based on the theories of Tabuteau and others but is expressed differently
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Good point, Dr GO.

Well, as I read it, it's not a pursuit for perfection, rather an arbitrary time frame to just meet the challenge of doing what one can do within a timef frame; something to do for fun and challenge during this virus period to beat the boredom.

I put this in the Misc. category because it applies to all idioms. It's just a matter of application.

"Music-Making as Time Travel".

It really got me thinking. So much of making music is external. Yes, we strive for feelings "closer to the bone," but so often the externals get in the way. We think of sound, range, flexibility, endurance, all things, while necessary, but which take us further away from the internal. At best, we do a juggling act.

But is this how we began? I started by closing my eyes, even going into an unlit closet to listen to myself; to bring out the internal. I played to express what was inside of myself, to transport myself to another plane. "Music-Making as Time Travel".

As time went on, I got more aware of the technical side. Working on exercises, getting further away from the time travel and more into the practical now. One needs technique to enhance one's expression, but how often do we get caught into that at the expense of self-expression?

Have you found yourself, especially in this time of isolation, to just do the perfunctory or to take time to "time travel", to transport yourself to a different musical universe?

source material: https://reverb.com/news/interview-trumpeter-jaimie-branch-on-music-making-as-time-travel

@Samurai_trp said in Re: Caruso on Piccolo trumpet:

@Kehaulani I'm glad to know that! I was born in Tokyo and now live with my wife in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture.

Well, we were practically neighbors. Welcome to the board.

Do you mind telling me where? I lived in Nagoya three years and Tokyo (Kokubunji) for four years. Toured all over Japan, Okinawa and Korea.

Samurai, what country are yo posting from?

@J-Jericho said in did he play or didn't he ?:
I have never forgotten that episode. Here's more info:

Wow! I've never met another person who saw (or remembered) that!
Thanks for the link. Interesting.