I Love Playing the Trumpet!!!!

[Jkobb13]

and only 10 bucks for tickets!
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90% mental
19% air
1% everything else

[Billy B]

Uh oh. No trumpet players this morning.
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Bill Bergren

[EdMann]

Finding the object of a routine has been a true joy in my playing. I've always enjoyed the instrument, but only upon finding the right routines to move me along did I discover how easy it could be... well, relatively. Greatest barometer for me, ability to play split lead in a big band with any of mouthpieces and little fatigue at the end. Now, that's not always the case, but more often now. Particular use of the leadpipe to orient the blow really changed me. Some of what Pops has presented here and Peter Bond have made my playing a pleasure and my wife miserable (at least I do most of the cooking!)

Ed

[Brian Moon]

My son never has wanted to practice. He doesn't like practicing anything he just likes to perform. He played piccolo a couple weeks ago though and he is enjoying practicing it. He is going to play pic for his first Solo and Ensemble piece ever.
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Either is fine. My chops always feel great

ObamaCare, a massive government takeover, a measure destroying jobs and the economy, a law designed to enslave the American people, an instrument of tyranny in the hands of criminal elitists.

[Billy B]

[Billy B]

Trumpet fun is driving four high school kids to have their first lesson woith Bill Adam and a bonus with Pat Harbison. Maybe even Mother Bear's.
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Bill Bergren

[PH]

Have a safe drive. I'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
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Clinical Professor of Jazz Trumpet, University of Illinois
Professor Emeritus of Jazz Studies, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Faculty Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops 1976-2019
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[Jkobb13]

WOW! what a great visit to Bloomington! Got a lesson with Bill Adam! 92 and he stays more focused than everyone in the room after three hours of lessons.
Practice, Persistence, Perseverance, Performance!
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19% air
1% everything else

[Billy B]

Actually, one of thos Ps should be patience.....but I like the way you think!
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Bill Bergren

[amtrumpet]

I'm making my first trip out to Bloomington to meet Mr. Adam next week. I can't wait!

Aaron

[gpollack]

Man, in one week, I got a lesson with Mr. Adam, auditioned at Eau Claire, had a symphony concert, and a trumpet recital... All of it is SOOO much fun. Playing trumpet is just great!

[Billy B]

Just wanted to resurrect this thread.
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Bill Bergren

[Scot]

[kehaulani]

I don't know why I'm responding at this late date, but . . .Catharsis?

The subject is why I love playing the trumpet, right? Well, I don't. I love making music with the trumpet, but I don't love the instrument. (Bear with me. I'm not quibbling over words.)

I always had a problem with the physicality of trumpet playing. O'K., I was good enough. First trumpet in Intermediate School, Jr. High and H.S. bands. Even got a special dispensation to play in the All-State H.S. Band when I was a ninth grader. Played in the Lab Bands and Concert Band at North Texas, and professionally for a couple of years.

One day as I was neglecting practicing my trumpet because I had a writing project I had to finish, I glanced over at my horn and thought, you know, if I don't play that thing for three days, it's going to make me play for the next three days just to get back to wkere I started.

Simultaneously, there was a local salvage sale that, for some reason, I went to. Wound up coming back with a fifteen-dollar flute. In no time, whenever I wanted to take a break from my writing, I was playing Bach flute sonatas with no particular warm up on fundamentals. I added alto sax and found myself minoring at the Master Level on woodwinds when ai returned to N.T. I later found myself as a free-lance woodwind player in Germany. After many years, I eventually returned to the states, I had several minor strokes and then two big ones. When I got well enough to play, I couldn't use my left hand, so there went woodwind playing. So, I went back to trumpet.

I have practiced for about five years alone. No bands in my area for me. At first, I probably practiced five or six days a week. Over the years, it's down to little playing. I think if I had the full range of saxes and several different types of flutes and recorders to play, I could still keep up my enthusiasm. But one spends so much tim e just dealing with the physicality of trumpet playing. and with no ensemble to play with and no audience to play for, it's hard to have incentive.

For anyone a little confused, when I answer trumpet-oriented topics, they're credible, just based on what was not what is.

If I could play with other musicians, I would probably be more enthusiastic. As it is now . . . it's hard.
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[tptptp]

[stuartissimo]

[Man Of Constant Sorrow]

[quote="kehaulani"]

For anyone a little confused, when I answer trumpet-oriented topics, they're credible, ... just based on what was not what is..


" ... what was not what is"


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Sub-Optimal Hillbilly Jazz

[Halflip]

Perhaps one more well-placed comma would make things clearer, as in:

" . . . what was, not what is."
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"He that plays the King shall be welcome . . . " (Hamlet Act II, Scene 2, Line 1416)

"He had no concept of the instrument. He was blowing into it." -- Virgil Starkwell's cello teacher in "Take the Money and Run"

[Man Of Constant Sorrow]

Thnx for clarifying that confusing "word-salad".
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[kehaulani]