| Glenn,
If Mr. V. were here you could ask him.
The part I left out in that story about his early days was that, with the exception of the buzzing, that was precisely what he and the musicians of his generation did. A year of ear training, solfege, and theory and then you started your instrument.
In other words, you learned trumpet without the encumbrance of having to learn all those things AND your instrument concurrently. Having said that, that's how I learned, instrument and music rules at once.
ML |