[TPIN] Re: Re: Deprogramming Oneself

[Tim Swensen]

Jeff is right on the money here.

I listen to alot of music.  Also, while it may be
obsessive, when I hear a jingle or radio tag theme for
a show or some such thing, I imagine myself playing
it -- fingerings and all.  In fact, it bugs me
if I can't figure it out after hearing it a few
times.  So, intervals and their associated
fingering patterns are "practiced" by me even when
I'm not playing the trumpet.

I also imagine and often play descant parts to
many hymns during the course of a year.  This is
good ear training.  It's as close as the church
trumpeter is going to get to "improvisation"
unless your in a Contemporary Christian church band.

Tim Swensen


--- Jeff Helgesen <jeff.helgesen at gmail.com> wrote:

...
> The second part involves alot of listening.  Alot. 
> Enough so that you
> have favorite solos that rattle around in your head
> that you can sing
> along with.  Recognizing when your ear can't parse
> the intervals in a
> particular phrase and working that material out
> until your ear does
> hear it.  (Transcribing or memorizing unfamiliar
> trumpet solos is
> arguably the most difficult aspect of this.)
...