[TPIN] Advice for practice?

[James Klages]

The sound produced is the driving factor: The trumpet must make the room
"ring" - but not be unmusical. Some mistake a harsh loud tone for a focused
one. High playing is good - but so is low playing. Loud and soft - at all
dynamics.
Jim


On 7/30/06, Bryan Edgett <bedgett1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I believe that Paul is right about the basics. I also believe that
> people can practice the basics with a chop setup that doesn't work
> efficiently and get far less from them than what they would get if
> thier setup was working for them.
>
> It is true that we now have many documented methods regarding what to
> do with the chops, the tongue, etc. I think that the most important
> thing is finding an approach that affords and facilitates the
> player's development. I'll not belabor the point here with specifics
> but the basics, which are essential, work best on a setup that allows
> the player to produce his/her sound in an unencumbered manner. To
> that end, we do need to find something that will work for us. Keen
> diagnostic and prescriptive skills stand among the factors that
> separate the good teachers from the great teachers, in my view.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Bryan Edgett
>
> >>  The basics are what will you get you there.I think Leon's book is
> >>great too. I think we
> have in a sense become overloeaded with concepts and systems that we
> have overly complicated bloeing into a damn brass tube.<<
> _______________________________________________
> TPIN mailing list
> TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu
> http://tpin.okcu.edu/mailman/listinfo/tpin
>



-- 
Dr. James L. Klages
Professor of Trumpet
School of Music
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK 73034