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Post by Tuba Justin on Aug 8, 2008 21:46:49 GMT -5
Mykal and i would like to invite you to join us for an hour on Friday to practice with us, it will not be hard on your chops
please post whether or not you are interested
List of Exercises
breath in for 4 be full on 3
sips of air
paper plane, dart, bow breathing
relaxed breathing
breathing and buzzing
buzz 5456
buzz arpeggios
buzz tuning
playing 5456 (to warm instruments up)
balancing and tuning practice
Fire of eternal glory (buzzing and playing)
a few flexibility and tonguing exercises like the Blue Devils warm-ups (from the book and from the videos in the Full Brass section).
Put your hands up like goalposts and turn like we do to stretch to practice keeping our shoulders parallel to the sideline. Breathe in for four counts hold, four, and breathe out for four while doing this. This helps with breathing in slides and breathing in general.
"Blob of Anti-Posture": Self-explanatory. Breathe in every for four counts and out for four counts while becoming Mr. Rice's "Blob of Anti-Posture." Start at attention with horns up (without instruments), and when we reach the blob form, we'll hold for eight beats, then come back up into the perfect attention-horns up posture and stop.
Another one, slightly similar to the last one, bend over and hang limp. Breathe in for eight counts. If you're breathing correctly, your stomach should push against your stomach expanding should force your upper body to move up a little.
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 11, 2008 15:48:58 GMT -5
Well, it turns out Mr. Mote doesn't want us having practices on Fridays just because he thinks we might blow our chops. I don't see how that's possible if we're only doing breathing exercises and very relaxed buzzing (5456) and Fire of Eternal Glory (our "warm-up"). I say we keep trying to convince him. But until then, he's agreed to let us have short practices (optional) on Tuesdays and Thursdays right after school, at least until marching practices get moved back to 3:00-5:00. So until then Justin and I will be leading practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays for anyone who wants to come. Also, low brass (Justin and Josh), Geoff and I originally meant for Monday lessons/practices to be for trumpets only. Justin, I appreciate that you were trying to help, and thank you for backing off when we said it was just trumpets, but Josh (I know he's not registered on the forums yet, but when he registers, this is for him), it didn't help having you there playing baritone while Geoff and I were trying to work with Marleigh. You can lead low brass sectionals and give tips during full brass sectionals, but Monday lessons are just that: lessons. Private lessons. As in teacher-student. These are TRUMPET lessons, where trumpets are teaching trumpets. Not former trumpet-playing low brass players teaching trumpets. These lessons are meant to help with the trumpets' playing technique, something only one trumpet player can pass on to another. If you want to have your own private lessons/sectionals, go ahead. But please, leave Geoff, Anthony, and me to teach the trumpets.
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 18:05:06 GMT -5
Well, it turns out Mr. Mote doesn't want us having practices on Fridays just because he thinks we might blow our chops. I so called this. Hey Michael, I just wanted to say sorry for not being serious about today's lesson. Next time I'll just grab a practice room if I don't feel like helping. Once you left I did help Geoff though. We also found out her tone quality improved significantly when she tried Geoff's 3c mouthpiece. Today's lesson actually worried me a bit. If Marleigh is one of the best and most dedicated rookies, and she is still having trouble with the music, how are we supposed to expect the other rookies to have it memorized by Friday? But I think the lessons are a great idea, and I think we really helped Marleigh with playing out, fingerings, and breathing today. Hopefully more people will show up next week if more trumpets knew about it.
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Post by Tuba Justin on Aug 11, 2008 18:06:14 GMT -5
yea im sorry about that
-9002 karma for me
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 18:12:31 GMT -5
lol, no need to punish yourself. I'm pretty sure Michael was just telling you to not do it next time. If he had to tell you multiple times then by all means lower your shoop da whoop power levelz down down down lol.
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 11, 2008 18:17:23 GMT -5
That's fine... somehow, I think it gave Marleigh some kind of support. I don't know. I guess you just make it easier for people to play. Yeah. I was worried from the first day of band camp. Especially about people like Larry who have it "memorized" with all the wrong fingerings/notes, rhythms, articulations, dynamics, etc. But you're right. The lesson did help her a lot. lol I thought of something after I left to help with keeping her throat open: sing while playing. It was so obvious. When you sing and play at the same time, you're forced to open up. It doesn't have to sound good, but she just needs to get used to keeping her throat open while playing, and it should do the trick. Yeah, I also noticed the same thing with Matt. I had him play on my 5C, and his tone sounded a lot better. Then he got a 3C. His tone on the 3C was a little bit better than the 5C, but not much better. But it did improve, and I think his range is slowly improving because he has to use a bigger mouthpiece, and he has to be able to get the range out of it. I think I'm just going to have all the freshmen try one of my many mouthpieces. It seems like the 5C and 3C seem to be working for most of them.
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Post by Tuba Justin on Aug 11, 2008 18:18:47 GMT -5
lol, no need to punish yourself. I'm pretty sure Michael was just telling you to not do it next time. If he had to tell you multiple times then by all means lower your shoop da whoop power levelz down down down lol. lolol im VERY hard on myself i almost stripped myself of my admin powerz
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 18:22:42 GMT -5
lol, no need to punish yourself. I'm pretty sure Michael was just telling you to not do it next time. If he had to tell you multiple times then by all means lower your shoop da whoop power levelz down down down lol. lolol im VERY hard on myself i almost stripped myself of my admin powerz Wow, now that is just exaggerating, lol. @mykal: we need to make sure the rookies are 100% sure they know there's a trumpet sectional this Wednesday from 2:45 - 5:00.
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 11, 2008 18:31:03 GMT -5
OKAI. TRUMPETS THERE'S A TRUMPET SECTIONAL WEDNESDAY 2:45-5:00. K THX
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Post by Tuba Justin on Aug 11, 2008 18:37:53 GMT -5
wut r sectionals?
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 18:48:22 GMT -5
OKAI. TRUMPETS THERE"S A TRUMPET SECTIONAL WEDNESDAY 2:45-5:00. K THX Nice work. TRUMPETS I EXPECT A PAY CHECK FOR ALL I'VE DONE FOR YOU K THX BAI
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 11, 2008 18:50:36 GMT -5
I just sent out an email to all the trumpets.
And when do you want your paycheck?
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 18:53:47 GMT -5
Make sure we get the word out tomorrow, because some don't check their email regularly.
Pay check... make it cash. $800 from all the trumpets by this Friday. k thx
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 11, 2008 19:09:53 GMT -5
K, I'll inform the others. $800 each, or total? ("$800 from all the trumpets" could mean either one.)
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Post by anthony on Aug 11, 2008 21:14:58 GMT -5
Or sorry. I meant $800 from each. That is the most reasonable answer, right?
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