January 28, 2008
My friend Brian Miller is a wonderful trumpet player and teacher. He recently had an opportunity to teach in Oman, a beautiful peninsular country bordering Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I have never been to the Middle East and I was fascinated by Brian’s account of the place. I hope you enjoy meeting him!
More info about Oman can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman
Brian was able take this journey because of an ad he saw at the website “Musical Chairs”, which has a tremendous listing of jobs all over the world. That website is here:
http://www.musicalchairs.info/
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January 19, 2008
Snow day in Atlanta, so I invited some friends over to the house to try out the Griego Mouthpieces that were sent to me by Jeff Taylor. Thanks, Jeff!
Man, we had fun and I really love the feel and sound of the Deco Silver 5. Bravo. I plan on trying them all and letting folks around here do the same. If you are going to be in the area (Atlanta, GA) and want to try them, contact me via email and LET’S PLAY:
tom@trombonelessons.com
I love trying new stuff, especially when it’s of such high quality as these mouthpieces. Jeff can be contacted for more info at this address:
jefftaylor@griegomouthpieces.com
The Griego website is here:
http://www.griegomouthpieces.com
So, Bill brought his contra, I grabbed an alto, Tom swapped the tuba for a Conn 88H, and Brent held court on his bass trombone…..and we had ourselves a “hang”. A really fun afternoon it was.
Also in this episode, I answer some accumulating Viewer Mails. Thanks for all of those and don’t fret if I haven’t gotten to yours yet. We’ll strive hard to get to them all, promise.
Please enjoy this episode and let us know your thoughts.
As always and forever, peace.
Let’s all go practice now. We gotta keep getting better to make more and more Trombone Love for this crazy world of ours, right? Collectively, we can make some noise!
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A while back, a very nice gentleman named Gary Garner contacted us about Episode 18, where we play and talk about the Bruckner Sym. No. 8.
Gary is retired from West Texas A&M University, where he was the Director of Bands. He was invited to do a clinic at the Texas Bandmasters Convention on INTONATION. He asked if he could use our Bruckner 8 in his presentation.
We were honored to abide, of course, but if you’ll recall the audio fidelity was not the greatest. In Episode 18, the audio feed is off my camera’s mic. Not bad, but not great. We had the really nice mics in the hall recording the entire session, though. So I re-edited the video for Mr. Garner, using the better audio from the mics in the hall.
This is just a very short clip, but I think you’ll like it…….the complete discussion about this excerpt can be found in Episode 18.
If you have good speakers and/or good headphones, now’s the time to use ‘em.
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January 18, 2008
This PDF file should be read by January 24, 2008. After that, it will be useless:-)
Just click the PDF icon below please. Thanks everyone! Happy New Year.
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January 16, 2008
“So these 4 trombone players walk into a hotel……..”
Sounds like the beginning of a good joke. Well, just watch what happens!
Spontaneous improvisation. Good for the chops, good for the ears, good for the mind, good for the ensemble, good for the soul.
These are trained professionals (believe it or not), please do attempt this at home.
Participating in this soiree are myself, Lee Watts, Wes, and a guy who suggested that we never, EVER, show this publicly. (He’s our musical guru, though I suspect he secretly wishes for a demotion.)
By the way, this all happened in beautiful Kentucky. Lee makes a very clever allusion to this fact, if you pay attention…assuming you last that long:-)
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January 9, 2008
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