Comments on: What You “Know” Can Get in Your Way! http://www.trumpetresources.com/articles/what-you-know/ Resources for Trumpet Players wanting to Learn Jazz Improvisation, Trumpet High Notes, and Technique! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kaeli http://www.trumpetresources.com/articles/what-you-know/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Kaeli Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:55:29 +0000 http://www.trumpetresources.com/?p=1186#comment-96 I want to thank you publicly for your influence on my life and playing. I had some nerve damage that I wasn't sure I could overcome. The old ways of playing with pressure no longer worked. It was embarrassing since I'm a trumpet teacher! Your book and lessons have helped me so much. I just had to go about playing in a different way...a better way. I am now able to play professionally again. Yesterday was my first gig in over 2 years. It was a victory for me. Thanks Keith! I want to thank you publicly for your influence on my life and playing. I had some nerve damage that I wasn’t sure I could overcome. The old ways of playing with pressure no longer worked. It was embarrassing since I’m a trumpet teacher! Your book and lessons have helped me so much. I just had to go about playing in a different way…a better way. I am now able to play professionally again. Yesterday was my first gig in over 2 years. It was a victory for me. Thanks Keith!

]]> By: ken switzer http://www.trumpetresources.com/articles/what-you-know/comment-page-1/#comment-29 ken switzer Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:32:45 +0000 http://www.trumpetresources.com/?p=1186#comment-29 I did a restart on trumpet after 7 years away. Trumpetmaster forum said it would be 18 months to just get back to where I was. I listened to Keith, and believed that -"I too" could play at the level I want. I am at the 18 month level. My playing is better than ever, and octave higher, and consistent to "hit" notes that I never could. to play things an octave higher -- that I never could before. The first year back was super frustrating --- dealing with MY own walls of where I was 7 years ago. Once I passed those areas, and with consistent PRACTICE -- seem to be improving each week. Playing things that "were supposedly impossible just 7 yrs ago" -- I am 45 yrs old --- it is never too late. ken I did a restart on trumpet after 7 years away. Trumpetmaster forum said it would be 18 months to just get back to where I was. I listened to Keith, and believed that -”I too” could play at the level I want. I am at the 18 month level. My playing is better than ever, and octave higher, and consistent to “hit” notes that I never could. to play things an octave higher — that I never could before. The first year back was super frustrating — dealing with MY own walls of where I was 7 years ago. Once I passed those areas, and with consistent PRACTICE — seem to be improving each week. Playing things that “were supposedly impossible just 7 yrs ago” — I am 45 yrs old — it is never too late.
ken

]]> By: Stephen http://www.trumpetresources.com/articles/what-you-know/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Stephen Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:56:46 +0000 http://www.trumpetresources.com/?p=1186#comment-28 Hey Kieth, Thanks for addressing this issue. The reasons that you address here are exaclty the reason that I have not told anyone else but my wife and one ohter close friend about my dream/plan to become a working jazz trumpet player in the 5 to 1o years. I haven't told anyone in my family or other close friends that for the last 5 years, (since my 48th birthday) that I have been learningand practicing every day for aieast two hours. I haven't even told my mother, who use to tell me as a kid that "I can be or can do anything I want to be or do". The reasson is I know out of pride she would tell somene that I don't them to know and then would have to deal with their negative thoughts and comments.So I persever on in secret and fearlessly. Thabks for your help. Stephen Hey Kieth,
Thanks for addressing this issue. The reasons that you address here are exaclty the reason that I have not told anyone else but my wife and one ohter close friend about my dream/plan to become a working jazz trumpet player in the 5 to 1o years. I haven’t told anyone in my family or other close friends that for the last 5 years, (since my 48th birthday) that I have been learningand practicing every day for aieast two hours. I haven’t even told my mother, who use to tell me as a kid that “I can be or can do anything I want to be or do”. The reasson is I know out of pride she would tell somene that I don’t them to know and then would have to deal with their negative thoughts and comments.So I persever on in secret and fearlessly.
Thabks for your help.
Stephen

]]> By: David H. Bailey http://www.trumpetresources.com/articles/what-you-know/comment-page-1/#comment-27 David H. Bailey Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:36:56 +0000 http://www.trumpetresources.com/?p=1186#comment-27 You have hit the nail on the head squarely with these comments. There's nothing which bothers me more than "you can't do that" or "you might want to rethink that choice" with regards to music. I hold myself and my wife up as examples of what can be accomplished with music even in an area which is horrible in its support for live music. I'm here because after college I went to instrument repair school and moved here to work in a music store, and my wife moved to the area specifically to study violin with a particular person in Boston. We met, fell in love, and after 26 years of marriage, with 25 of them totally self-employed, we are putting 2 kids through college, we have very active teaching studios, we perform professionally when hired, and I have a very busy instrument repair business as well. That's all because nobody told us we couldn't do it. And I point that out to my students who express a desire to pursue music in college as a career path -- don't listen to the naysayers. They're just jealous because they didn't follow their dreams (many of them) and they've lived less than thrilling lives because of it. Life is what we make of it and we get one go-round in this great life we're living, so make the best of it and don't let anybody else rain on your parade! And remember that nothing is ever truly etched in stone -- it's never too late to follow one's dreams. You have hit the nail on the head squarely with these comments. There’s nothing which bothers me more than “you can’t do that” or “you might want to rethink that choice” with regards to music. I hold myself and my wife up as examples of what can be accomplished with music even in an area which is horrible in its support for live music. I’m here because after college I went to instrument repair school and moved here to work in a music store, and my wife moved to the area specifically to study violin with a particular person in Boston. We met, fell in love, and after 26 years of marriage, with 25 of them totally self-employed, we are putting 2 kids through college, we have very active teaching studios, we perform professionally when hired, and I have a very busy instrument repair business as well. That’s all because nobody told us we couldn’t do it. And I point that out to my students who express a desire to pursue music in college as a career path — don’t listen to the naysayers. They’re just jealous because they didn’t follow their dreams (many of them) and they’ve lived less than thrilling lives because of it.

Life is what we make of it and we get one go-round in this great life we’re living, so make the best of it and don’t let anybody else rain on your parade! And remember that nothing is ever truly etched in stone — it’s never too late to follow one’s dreams.

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