| Re: Glad to be here!
Hello from the road TM forum folks!
Thanks for the questions-and yes, please call me Ingrid.
I am about as far from Australia as one can get right now Giannim.
Am currently trekking through the snow-covered Swedish countryside in a cozy tour bus/van with my friends from Nordic Connect. We’re having a great time making good original music and tasting the local aquavit while trying to hock our project, Flurry. The CD is finished now and available on ArtistShare through my site and there is already a lot of bonus content up thanks to my husband Jon (the drummer in the band) who has been uploading some great road footage as we tour away. Last night’s gig in Borlangen was pretty cool and my chops FINALLY started feeling better. They got pretty trashed from cold sores and no time to warm up properly, but thanks to two luxurious days off in Stockholm I was able to rest and shed. As far as the question, what do I do to keep my chops up on the road (?) goes- the answer is-whatever I can find time to do! If it’s a 15 minute window, I’ll do the 6 note study (lips/mouthpiece/horn) and some Adam Pipe exercises while getting my head into the first tune of the gig. I have a tuner that plays various pitches and I’ll put it on the key center of the tune (or the first chord) and do the tones over it while feeling the tempo of the piece as well. I will also take advantage of the sound check time to get things together, rather than going for everything right off the bat, I will pace and find my sound in relation to the room and the mix. I do have a silent brass as well and was shedding at JFK before I took off for Sweden-some people stared at me or did double takes as they walked by.More on road shedding to come…
Ij
PS-thanks for the welcome John-great to be here!I hope things are looking up ! peace,ingrid |