And I take this as a chance for a rebirth. gmonady is now Dr GO.
Dr GO
@Dr GO
Physician and Musician
Best posts made by Dr GO
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RE: RIP Trumpet "Master"
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RE: No real gains on anything more than 40-45 minutes of practice.
Prior to my retirement from my professorial gig at the medical school this past December, I taught muscle physiology in the first year medical student curriculum. We are at the mercy to the laws of physiology of muscle fiber development. So it takes about 2-6 weeks for muscle to adapt to new stress without damaging fibers. At the end of that 2-6 week span, one can add another 20% duration to the work out. So if 45 minutes is all you can do at this point, continue for several weeks at 45 minutes, than in that new week add 45 x 0.20 or about 10 minutes to the next week (55 minutes) and stay with that for another several weeks. Then advance another 20%. Keep doing this at these intervals until you reach your goal.
Let fatigue be your friend. When you loose control or start leaking air, step away from the horn for the day and start back at it tomorrow.
Let me know how this works out.
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RE: Mid Performance Emergency Sub
I was walking by a brown stone in New York and heard jazz streaming from a window. Door was open so I went in to find a band playing in an open loft. Asked if I could listen to which a band member replied sure then asked if I played. Said yes, was a trumpet player. They asked if I had my horn with me and told them in the building down the block. They asked me to get it and sit in as their second trumpet would not be there. I did. Turned out it was the 9 lives jazz ensemble, Mingus's band just after he passed. Wound up being bands sub and this launched my music career in NYC.
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RE: A little humour
AND to the Chemists out there:
HAPPY EASTER from:
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RE: Laughter is the Best Medicine
A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley when a heart surgeon walked into his shop. As the surgeon was waiting for the service manager to look at his bike, the mechanic called to him: "Hey Doc, can I ask you a question?" The surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the motorcycle.
The mechanic wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "Doc, look at this engine. Like you, I can open it up, take valves out, fix 'em, put in new parts and when I finish this will work just like a new one. So why do I earn a pittance and you get the really big money, when we are doing basically the same work?"
The surgeon smiled, leaned over, and whispered to the mechanic: “Try doing it while the engine is still running.”
Latest posts made by Dr GO
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RE: The Serpent
@Trumpetb said in The Serpent:
What have we lost, we have lost the sound of the old instruments that we cannot hear at all anywhere else.
Are we right to abandon these old instruments and never hear them or play them, that is a personal choice.
If you abandon something unique you lose it.
That is what we have lost, the unique sounds of ancient instruments.
One of my oldest horns is a 1946 Martin Committee, my newest is a 2017 Harrelson Summit. BOTH play exceptionally dark (when I want the Harrelson to do so) and BOTH peal paint when playing lead (Dizzy played the Committee as I am sure you know). I have not abandoned either. I play in small jazz ensembles with the Committee as I do not need to work so hard in those venues, and the greasy transition of the Committee is a virtue in those gigs.
The Harrelson, has the Committee sound (uncanny and spookily identical with the Harmon mute in), but I have to work half as hard to get lead playing results and it projects so well so it gets the big band nod for that reason.
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RE: Health News...
This is so cool to see, hear and feel your experience. It's the personal touches you put into this site that made it the BEST.
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RE: How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?
@Dale-Proctor It's in Cincinnati after eating a 5 way chili at Skyline!
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RE: The past lives on and we are judged by it
Here is the recording I was hired to play:
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RE: The past lives on and we are judged by it
I was asked to provide a flugelhorn background to a Brazilian vocalist written by her brother. The mix just did not sound right (I will post it later). But during that same session, a friend at the session made an impromptu recording of a duet between the guitarist and myself. Sometimes the unplanned, and spontaneous events turn out to be better then the rehearsed and planned session.
Here is the impromptu event:
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RE: Easter 2024
Happy Easter Rowuk and all. I am 10 minutes away from opening an Easter Service that starts with Handel's "The Trumpet Shall Sound "
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RE: Trumpet Based “News” Article
@J-Jericho said in Trumpet Based “News” Article:
@Trumpetb I am living proof that a trumpet player can both suck and blow when they blow. Hope this helps.
As a physician, I was always confused on advising my patients when donating to a sperm bank. Would it be a deposit... or a withdrawal?
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RE: Matt silver American Standard High Grade Cleveland
@jdlmodelt said in Matt silver American Standard High Grade Cleveland:
@barliman2001 Thanks! I have no idea what a typical pea shooter from that era means. LOL!
From Rodd Stewart's discussion of the history of the trumpet, he makes this historical perspective of the peashooter trumpet:
From about 1920, the large US makers also made popular models with very small bell flares for the (mostly amateur) dance band market that wanted a sound that deviated more thoroughly from the old fashioned cornets. This fashion was short lived and these trumpets were replaced around 1930 with narrow, "streamlined" (now sometimes called "peashooter) trumpets with small bell rim diameters that were in fact full size trumpets acoustically. These were popular with dance bands and jazz trumpet players, but disappeared from the market after World War II.
Here is a link to that site by Rodd Stewart. https://www.robbstewart.com/history-of-the-modern-trumpet