Practice Challenge Day 15 #13, Day 27, Rocha “Fly or Die” (under tempo)

Jim Markey 365-day practice challenge Day 27 (December 2019), full video and original audio. Original text: “Practice challenge day 27: status check video. After a lot of under tempo work and passages in isolation, I like to check in from time to time to see where things stand. Here tempo is quarter=95, or close to 80% of performance tempo. I may wind up pulling out the single bore slide for this recital...we’ll see...and if you’re wondering why so many videos of this, it’s because it needs the work for me to perform it!!”

[@HelloThere6043]

I felt that “legh” at the end.

[@zakblue]

These prac challenges are awesome. Thanks for sharing these James!

[@hothanddiceking]

Look, Markey is one of the very finest tenor and bass trombone players on the planet...this shows you how insane it is what the dude from Treze Etoiles did (the one with 2M views)

[@jackburrows5850]

To watch it at the “real” tempo, set the playback speed to 1.5x. 😀

[@elowcow]

the pedals sound so weird at the speed

[@jackburrows5850]

@@elowcow yeah they do lol

[@jasoncostello1535]

Eh more like 1.25x

[@TheTromboneChannel]

@@jasoncostello1535 this is “real” tempo btw kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZSraqmtrMuIrJY

[@raymondfallon7429]

Saw you play this at Jordan Hall in 2018. A certified ass kicker if ever I've heard one.

[@ggarzagarcia]

Maestro, phenomenal! This piece is insane...why did the composer do this?! Haha Hope you and your family are well!

[@boro977]

Because composers son can play this crazy music haha

[@edwards2010getzen]

What an exquisite tone ✨💕✨

[@caleblindsey7026]

Your playing is so amazing clean. :)

[@raymondfallon7429]

It occurs to me as we enter Christmas week (must be almost there as I spent an hour and a half shoveling snow today) that I wish we had a control with which to send one comment to numerous artists on KZbin, without whose artistry this chamber-pot of a year would have been unbearable. Artists like James Markey and Toby Oft of my favorite Symphony Orchestra (and my favorite instrument); Ricardo Molla Albero; Stephen Verhelst; Carol Jarvis; the Barclay Brass; Gelp99 for my DCI memories; Charles Frost, who I fear has left us, but whose videos live on; Chick Corea; Jorgen van Rijen Joseph Alessi; Ben van Dyk; the list goes on and on. How many days while being worried about this virus, or the dismal state of my country's political life, have I been lifted out of my dark places and brought to somewhere where music plays and great artists continue to make great art, although I can't go sit in Symphony Hall or Jordan Hall and lose myself for an evening. There are many things about KZbin I detest. If I trip over one more conspiracy video, or one comment totally bereft of soul, and/or imagination, or empathy, I feel like I'm going to throw my laptop out the window. But by and large, for me it's outweighed by the humanity and artistry of folks like those I listed above, and I'm sure many more. Thank you for the hours of pleasure and more important, the peace, and the inspiration (even though listening to Markey and Oft make me want to met down my old Shires tenor at times). May all the best of this season flow back to you and your families. At least I didn't hunt down Mr Markey after the Brass Bash for an autograph this year (as I did in 2019). I guess something good came out of quarantine. Joy and Peace, and music, this holiday season, and sincere thanks. You folks are the best, and at a time when we (I) needed it the most.

[@oscarlevizalazar2135]

Fantastic!

[@louloutrombone]

Fantastique!

[@tehrobros5345]

This is so good!

[@jasoncostello1535]

Holy smokes!

[@joshuayue854]

holy shit

[@user-to3fi8dn7b]

Pliz give me PDF FLY OR DIE))

[@dropnwaffles5445]

im playing trombone, after 0:01 how do you flutter tongue like that

[@markeybone]

I think what you’re referencing is the lip trill, and the Arban book has some great exercises for developing that

[@dropnwaffles5445]

@@markeybone yeah the trill, Thank you so much!