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It's cool how you can hack your XP in a good way!

Trumpetman67 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:00:57 GMT

This is pretty amazing! I was up around 4 in the morning, bored, on a weekend, and was on YouTube. I found this one person who could do anything you could possibly imagine doing to your computer! (Windows XP) You can change the color of your task bar and start button to orange and black, and for your start button, you can change the text!! It's pretty cool if you ask me!

Tips + Books for Learning Piano

john7401 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:50:11 GMT

I'd like to teach myself to play the piano. (Unfortunately I can't afford lessons which I know is not good but this is just something I want to do for fun outside of the trumpet. I hear it also helps with composing and just musical ability in general.) I guess my first question is is this something that could be self taught well, or should I find a way to get some extra money and a teacher to at least learn the basics before teaching myself?

Does anyone have any good book suggestoins for starting out?

Are there things I need to watch out for? Bad habits like on the trumpet? (Pressure, ect.)

Thanks

What do you get wound up about?

Alex_C — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:17:34 GMT

A guy in the music store and I were talking about what different instrumentalists get (it seems perhaps a bit unreasonably) wound up about. We were laughing it up. Here's what we came up with.

Trumpet - MOUTHPIECES!
Guitar - Pickups and picks
(here's the funny two)
Clarinet - Ligatures (that's the thing that holds the reed on the mouthpiece)
Sax - Mouthpieces!!! (and any old ligature)
Drums - Sticks (maybe because they go through so many?)

Yes, I'm starting on a nice mouthpiece collection of my own. All in good fun. ROFL

Haydn

rettepnoj — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:14:34 GMT

YouTube - Toby Rix- Trumpetconcerto in es Joseph...

Anyone play under Max Goberman?

trumpetsplus — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:27:32 GMT

Hi All
My brother-in-law is researching Max Goberman, a Broadway and Classical conductor during the 1950s or so. This research is a prelude to a possible book he is considering writing, and he has already held some preliminary interviews with musicians.

Is there anyone out there who played under Goberman, or knows someone who did (maybe their teacher), and would be prepared to participate in this project?

Anyone ever NOT want to go to a gig?

trickg — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:10:50 GMT

So, I've got a gig that I have to leave for in about 30 minutes, and I'm just not feeling it tonight. I'd rather just chill out at home, maybe watch a movie, listen to some music...tonight is one of those nights where I'd rather just stay home.

Fundamentally I know that once I get to the gig, I'm going to be happy to see my friends and I'll probably have a lot of fun playing, but right now I'm just not looking forward to dealing with the stuff that will ensue before I ever even get there, mainly the drive, traffic, finding parking, etc. Gig prep is done - I warmed up earlier and the chops are feeling pretty good today, so I'll probably play well.

I have to sing the first dance tonight - Lucky, by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat (duet with one of our lady singers) and maybe that has something to do with it - I never mind singing, but there is always a bit of extra pressure when you have to do it for one of the special dances.

Yeah yeah, I know - stop griping. At least I have a gig, right? :-)

Trumpet Excuses

gerry — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:11:06 GMT

Hello all
Im in my second last year of school and im constantly asked by my headmaster to bring in my trumpet and play for the rest of the school which is embarrasing on my own.
Its not that I amn�t good because I am very good:oops:. I was wondering do you other trumpeters out there have any good excuses for not bringing in your trumpet??
Something different and original
Thanks:D

Movie collection

chenzo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:48:49 GMT

Hi
I have been reading this forum for a while now with a few posts and would now like to ask a favour..................

I would like to add some musical movies to my collection and was hoping you people out there could help in suggesting your favorites or even ones that you have loathed for what ever reason...
I know there was alot done in the early days...but what about the modern area.

I will start this off with Man with a Horn.....I think it stared Kirk Doglaus with think Harry James playing the Music tracts..was this movie based on the Late Harry James.

Please advise cheers

Human Trumpets !!!

The Kraken — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:36:09 GMT

Lack of trumpets did not stop these peeps !!! ROFL

YouTube - Choserito Plena?/?????

I've Moved!

flugelgirl — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:42:46 GMT

Just in case any of you have wondered what I've been up to for the past little while, I've once again moved to the West Coast! We enjoyed ourselves camping cross-country for the second time, and are settling into the San Diego area now. If any of you know anything about the area - places to play, good repair techs, fun things to do - please let me know!
Now I'm gonna go get back to emptying the mountain of boxes that has appeared in my new practice room.......:shock:

Top 10 Players... Under 60???

tgl — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:19:11 GMT

Regardless of their "style," who would you say are the top (10) trumpet players in the U.S. today under the age of 60? I guess the primary criteria for this list would be name recognition first and accolades second.

I'm using the age of 60 to try to eliminate some living legends and to encourage mention of more so-called possible future legends.

I admit that I'm very out of touch with the trumpet scene. Other than the traditional "living legends" I would be hard pressed to be able to name any "high profile" trumpet players other than Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Chris Botti and Rick Braun. Sorry...

Free sheet music by yours truly.

gsmonks — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:16:15 GMT

Here is a link to 196 pages of original piano music by myself. I am working on a book of trumpet music, but that will come at a later time.

14 of the original pieces are Ragtime which to varying degrees have been expanded in terms of form and structure using 19th century composition techniques.

You do not need to ask me persmission to use these pieces. I'm all but consigning them to the public domain.

Home - Greg S Monks

Triple Bypass accomplished ... I'm alive and home.

Ed Lee — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:19:16 GMT

Thanks for all the Prayers and Best Wishes I've received. With the triple by-pass, 2 defibs (code blue flat line), a mini-stroke affecting right side, and cardio conversion to stabilize heart rythms, I'm now home again with oxygen support.

Girl quits her job, funny stuff!

rettepnoj — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:06:13 GMT

girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa theCHIVE

Oral cancer and the trumpet

big valsalva — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:43:40 GMT

Hi everyone! I've been lurking on this forum for a while, but this is my first post. Sorry it has to be such a downer, but hopefully someone can offer up some help.

About three weeks ago, I had surgery to remove a squamous cell carcinoma from the floor of my mouth. The doctors feel they got everything. The lymph nodes were removed from the right side of my neck. They were clean. I started playing trumpet again on Friday, 8/6/10. I blew just a few notes (part of an Arban's exercise (Ex.10, pg. 13)). The next day I played ALL of exercise 10. Yesterday, I played all of exercise 10, PLUS single tongued two octave scales from low F# - C above the staff. Progress is being made. Slow, but progress nonetheless.

Today I had a consultation with the Oncology Radiolgy department at the Mayo Clinic to see if radiation therapy might be right for me. The bottom line is that radiation is ENTIRELY my option. 15 - 20% chance of recurrence if I don't do radiation, but there are some possible side effects. The most disturbing side effect to me, as a trumpet player, is the possible loss of saliva production on my right side.

Bottom line: is there anybody on this forum who has experienced oral cancer? Have you undergone radiation? How did it effect you? How long did it take for you to get playing again?