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Three weeks in. How am I doing please?


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John Mohan
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounding good! Especially after only three weeks back on the horn!!!

Best wishes,

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cooperd wrote:
trickg wrote:
You sound pretty good. I know people who have been actively playing for years who don't sound that good.

Just keep doing what you are doing for now. There doesn't seem to be anything funky going on in your sound, but you could probably stand to do some more work on your focus and articulation, which would all come together with some straight forward articulation exercises.

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Thank you very much indeed. I will take your advice. If you have any favourite articulation exercises please feel free to pass them on?

I don't do anything specific out of a book, although there are a myriad of things you could do from method books. For instance, Clarke study #2 would be great for that.

I typically just do a lot of tonguing exercises, particularly from tuning C on down, or up and down scales. I do a fair bit of work on multiple tonging exercises.

When I hear younger players, one of the things that often sticks out to me is their articulation - it seems to be an overlooked aspect of their technical instruction, which is interesting because when you hear a player, the very first thing you are going to hear is their attack.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounding really good man! keep up the good work that lip bend at the end was impressive!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The texture/core of the sound is the most important thing and your sound is good for someone only three weeks in, there are no real red flags I see at this point in terms of the basic sound. Producing a good sound is a very difficult thing to teach so you are ahead of the game there.

There are intonation issues (particularly going sharp) but you will work those out as you practice more and start to build up your strength so you feel you can relax a little more.

Your demonstration is a song (Stardust) rather than a technical exercise so I surmise that, to you, the major point of playing is to make music and have fun, which is great! That's what playing the trumpet is supposed to be. I share the same objective, I've advanced by practicing songs doing improvisation rather than working on technical exercises (I'm primarily an improvisational jazz player). If I had it to do over again I would have spent more time on the technical exercises but at my age ( 68 ) it's a little late in the game and I'm satisfied with my technical command of the trumpet in terms of improvisational jazz playing. No one really ever totally "masters" the trumpet, anyway. We're all, at least to some extent, "specialists."

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