Thank you for this i had a terrible practice session yesterday and watching your video made me realize it was because i was sacrificing my approach to sound to keep doing the same rep instead of changing what im doing to hold on to the sound. I didn’t think about changing the exercise to something that you can keep quality instead of trying to bring quality to what you are doing.
An excellent holistic view. What happens when your booked to do a gig and one of two tunes are simply out of your reach in the time frame you have to practice for it? We don’t often get to select the level of repertoire we are performing.
Yeah, this is definitely a challenge. The scope of the video was more for practice sessions, but if you find yourself in that position, I’d look for ways I could adjust the music I’m playing and not affect the overall impact. That might mean leaving a set of notes out, taking something down an octave, or focusing on bringing out the gesture of a technical rather than being worried about playing it absolutely perfectly. Hope this helps!
Honestly, my opinion is that you need to treat practice like studying. If you only learn something once, you lose it pretty quickly. If you learn it several times, it sticks with you. Good studying isn't starting at the beginning and going straight through the material over and over. You find the concepts you have trouble understanding or applying and spend most of your time on them. I take a similar approach for Arban's etudes. Even on the simplest etudes, it doesn't do any good to just play the etude over and over. Find where you miss notes or it just doesn't sound as good. Focus on those spots. You're more efficient and you don't run your chops into the ground.
Thank you for this i had a terrible practice session yesterday and watching your video made me realize it was because i was sacrificing my approach to sound to keep doing the same rep instead of changing what im doing to hold on to the sound. I didn’t think about changing the exercise to something that you can keep quality instead of trying to bring quality to what you are doing.
It makes a huge difference, I’m glad you found this video to be helpful!
Awesome content, you deserve more views!
Thanks for the support! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Dropping and then flipping the equation is a great stepping point! Thanks for the analogy and guidance!
An excellent holistic view. What happens when your booked to do a gig and one of two tunes are simply out of your reach in the time frame you have to practice for it? We don’t often get to select the level of repertoire we are performing.
Yeah, this is definitely a challenge. The scope of the video was more for practice sessions, but if you find yourself in that position, I’d look for ways I could adjust the music I’m playing and not affect the overall impact. That might mean leaving a set of notes out, taking something down an octave, or focusing on bringing out the gesture of a technical rather than being worried about playing it absolutely perfectly. Hope this helps!
Sometimes, I feel that the trumpet may be one of the few instruments that punishes you, almost in a linear way, for wanting to get better at it.
That’s why I’m trying to share good information… hoping it can help make the process of improvement not so difficult and punishing, to use your word!
Honestly, my opinion is that you need to treat practice like studying. If you only learn something once, you lose it pretty quickly. If you learn it several times, it sticks with you.
Good studying isn't starting at the beginning and going straight through the material over and over. You find the concepts you have trouble understanding or applying and spend most of your time on them. I take a similar approach for Arban's etudes. Even on the simplest etudes, it doesn't do any good to just play the etude over and over. Find where you miss notes or it just doesn't sound as good. Focus on those spots. You're more efficient and you don't run your chops into the ground.
I totally agree with you! Honing in on the trouble spots is making good use of your time.