The 7 Maxims of Trumpet Playing for Effortless Playing

[@jimaspinii7579]

I’m a month after this live stream you had. I watched another video. Then another and now this one. By the time I finished the second one I felt you had to be a brother in Christ. Then you broke out the Scripture. 👍👍👍👍👍 While I have been listening and someone made “yet” comment. Gulp…I played in high school. In college I played until our band needed more other instruments than me on cornet since I wasn’t a music major. So I got moved to French horn…which I also enjoyed. I played for a number of years at church. Now I’m 74 and haven’t picked up an instrument in over two decades. The other day I got the itch to pick up my cornet. I expected to have to build endurance but I feel as if I’ve never played before. I don’t know how to even begin. Watched some videos but haven’t “yet” got any kind of tone. Thanks for you being the you that God wants you to be.

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@jimaspinii7579 thank you very much.

[@karimperez17]

Hallo Chris, Thanks for sharing, God Bless You. Enjoying the video.

[@patoni860]

I play at a club called gallery 992 in atlanta. There are two types of people that come in their one is, they just come to solo and the other is people who come, like myself, to learn how to play with other musicians and play with a band. And you are correct that when you try to work with the other people you progress a lot faster than when you come in there just trying to get your Solo in

[@louisthompson1020]

Wonderful music lesson.

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@louisthompson1020 thank you!

[@arinzegideon8601]

I am really passionate about learning how to play. Re recently got one for myself.. I will need help.

[@patoni860]

I started at 50 now I'm 63 and I'm out here killing it

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 😆right on!!!

[@patoni860]

@@ChrisDavisTrumpet I watched your first videos... I was just going to the club and sitting in the audience for 8 years.... And coming home and trying to blow the roof off... I found this elementary music theory book by, Frederick holmberg who was the professor of music at the University of oklahoma. The book came out in 1920. I got a 1950 edition and it is a 34th printing. This is the book that Robert Johnson found that changed everything for him.... You see most people don't realize black people from Mississippi went to Oklahoma Indian Territory on the wagon trains... My great-great-grandmother got married in Oklahoma Indian Territory..... I'm a big fan of your show..... I have watched some episodes that you may know from your account, numerous times.... And I appreciate you.

[@patoni860]

@@ChrisDavisTrumpet as you can see I'm quite passionate and you have me quite excited

[@patoni860]

And I teach. The only thing I'm unable to do at this point is read operatic scores. My horn sits on the table within arm's reach of me... By putting my horn on the table I play 20 to 40 hours a week

[@patoni860]

I don't necessarily mean I play 40 hours a week. I play about 24 hours a week.... In the rest of the time is Reading writing or just looking at how sheet music is constructed and going over my tetrachords and doing my pedal tones.... I practice bird calls... Which are a lot of throat exercises... And when I'm playing and I start doing that people cannot figure out what I'm doing... It's cool man 😎... Yeah and I'm the kind of dude walk in the club sometimes with my sunglasses and hat on and probably been doing this since 1969...

[@redlek1]

Hi from the Netherlands

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

Hi and welcome! 🎉

[@da11king]

@28 min Byron who? Lol you meant Nick Anderson stole the ball from MJ. Great video lesson 👍🏾 ✨️👏🏾👏🏾🎺

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@da11king yeah! I mixed up the guy from the Utah Jazz.

[@patoni860]

The reason why most people don't practice every day is, they put their trumpet in a case. Buy yourself a stand, put it next to your easy chair while you watch TV and you will play two to three times more than what you are playing now. it's the greatest advice I never took for 25 years. once I did this everything changed for me. Steve Vai said this an article back in the 80s and I did not listen... The worst mistake I ever made in my life when it comes to music

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 man! You’re right again. My teacher put me on to this a long time ago and I have the habit now.

[@TwoLateBlues]

Hello

[@patoni860]

If you having a hard time with flexibilities, you ain't doing enough bugling... You got a bugle to work on the flexibilities

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 of course! Yet, I’ve never considered this. Great tip.

[@patoni860]

@@ChrisDavisTrumpet I pick up my horn and think about when a baby picks it up what what they do and that's how I start my day... And then I follow what the Marine corps trumpet lessons tell you and they tell you to always work down to your lowest note and once you can hit all your low notes then you can play high notes all night... And I play the jazz club and, this is absolutely true.... Gregory Porter does a good job of explaining certain things as well as you.... Most people never learn to play because they never learn how the circle of fifths is built. They never learn the structure of the piano. These things are 5 minutes and if you don't learn that you will never get it... I teach people how to play the piano in 2 hours...

[@jimaspinii7579]

Howdy

[@oneilmason6256]

My fist time playing jazz trumpet

[@patoni860]

So you think Michael Jackson and Prince were faking it with the sunglasses the glitter and all the razzmatazz😂

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 oh my goodness. YES!!!!! I could never get down with Prince because of it. Some reason I loved Michael Jackson. But both of guys were performing and comfortable in their skin. There are people who put on an act AND they are not comfortable.

[@patoni860]

So miles was wrong when he got mad at John Coltrane for sitting on the bandstand eating boogers😂 I mean, John was being his authentic self...lol

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 😆

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 professionalism

[@patoni860]

Don't brush your teeth before you play. Not with toothpaste. It will dry your mouth out also

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@patoni860 I know pros who do that as a form of taking care of their instrument. I tried it and just like you said, my mouth dries out. I’d rather clean my horn after than brush my teeth before. That’s Just me.

[@patoni860]

@@ChrisDavisTrumpet they have these mints called, 'TheraBreath' that's for dry mouth. I pretty much follow like the old time I say because I didn't have no other point of reference. So I'll brush my teeth without toothpaste. I always rinse my mouth piece off because I have gotten sick because some kids picked up and played my horn. And I find that if I don't wash my mouthpiece off everyday that I get this hairline cut that goes through my lip from it. A trumpet is a filthy instrument... And I have broken my teeth playing 6 and 7 hours a day during the pandemic but, that's the price you have to pay because, once you start playing the trumpet you can't stop. I messed my lips up one time and I had to quit playing for about 2 weeks and it seemed like I just had to start all the way over... But I do other stuff I ride a bike to keep my wind up because I can't run as well at this age but I cannot blow anybody because I do have the wind from riding the bike... I perform at home I don't really practice.... Because I had just been sitting at home playing jazz standards and I got invited to be in a marching band and my lips and gums swell up after marching and playing for 2 hours... And I write out my own charts... And thank you for being a big help

[@patoni860]

@@ChrisDavisTrumpet in one last thing, I have read 94 books on jazz in the last 10 years and the reason I don't read as much as because I've read all the classics and the stuff that I looking for now is in archived libraries... I would tell you to read the autobiography of Sidney bechet and a bass player in New Orleans that play with King Oliver and went with him in 1917 to chicago, his name is pops Foster and you can find his autobiography... And if you really like crazy horn players stuff then, there's a guy named mezz mezzrow and he wrote a book called 'Really the Blues... He was a mediocre clarinet player that did not practice much by his own admission but he was the biggest pot dealer in New York in the twenties and 30s

[@oneilmason6256]

Hello