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rowuk · 01-25-2008, 06:20 AM

Patric,
teaching brings me great joy. If you are on the right wavelength with your teacher, you can soak up soooo much. I was very fortunate to have several trumpet teachers in high school, college and then here in Germany that had/have MY interests at heart. I still take lessons from a retired almost 90 year old German. He favours a much more articulate style of playing than anyone else that I know. He can't help much with playing shows, but Mahler, Brückner and the other "Germanic" things are awesome. He has a lot of first hand experience.

If you need to work on your improv, you have from low G below to high G on top of the staff. That is quite a bit of material available - go for it! There are quite a few accomplished jazz singers that do not use much more range.
Maybe time for an Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan infusion?

01-25-2008, 06:20 AM	#13 (permalink)
rowuk Moderator Fortissimo User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 4,572	Re: How to play higher notes with no pressure. Patric, teaching brings me great joy. If you are on the right wavelength with your teacher, you can soak up soooo much. I was very fortunate to have several trumpet teachers in high school, college and then here in Germany that had/have MY interests at heart. I still take lessons from a retired almost 90 year old German. He favours a much more articulate style of playing than anyone else that I know. He can't help much with playing shows, but Mahler, Brückner and the other "Germanic" things are awesome. He has a lot of first hand experience. If you need to work on your improv, you have from low G below to high G on top of the staff. That is quite a bit of material available - go for it! There are quite a few accomplished jazz singers that do not use much more range. Maybe time for an Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan infusion? __________________ Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.