Trumpet playing

Posted on February 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Brass band, Choirs, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1843, Fun, Learning, Music, Sound, TrumpetLeave a comment

Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?

I lost interest in learning the trumpet because of lock down. I had to stop because I wasn’t allowed to visit the teacher for months. Then I got involved in other things. So my trumpet is in it’s case, with papers piled on top. I wonder if I will be able to take it up again? The trouble aswell is that I can’t really afford to do it anymore. I think I am fit enough and I can manage the breathing for it, but I need to find a cheaper tutor and work out if this fits in with my current finances.

I still enjoy choir practice and music making. I will have to see what happens. I might even try and join a brass band.

Trumpet playing

Posted on October 3, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2078, expert, Learning, Music, Playing, skill, Sound, Trumpet, valves4 Comments

What skill would you like to learn?

I started learning pre covid, but I couldn’t afford frequent lessons. Then the pandemic happened and I stopped learning. I thought I would pick it up again, but I’d got out of touch with people.

I don’t know whether I will try again, I need to make a decision because if I don’t I will never know if I could have done it.

So I’m going to have to get my trumpet out when I’m well and see if I can make the right noises. It’s not just my mouth, but my arms need to be in better condition to be able to hold the trumpet and manipulate the valves. If I can’t I won’t be able to play it.

If like other skills it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something, it means it’s highly unlikely that I will ever be much good. But I can try.

Trumpet player

Posted on May 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1930, Dream, frustration, Learning, Music, one day, Playing, Sound, thrilling, TrumpetLeave a comment

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

I would play the trumpet at a gig! I started learning before the pandemic, but of course that intervened. I am also having problems with my health and I haven’t held or played my trumpet for three years now. It’s probably seized up, I know I have!

I’d learnt enough to play scales and a few short tunes. But the trouble now is fear. Fear of failure, of not being able to do it any more. So the trumpet sits in its case in the living room. It’s not a good thing to let go of the start of something, I regret not pursuing the skill.

I admire jazz trumpeters and also players in brass bands. But holding it and positioning my mouth wasn’t easy and I wanted to be better at playing than I was. Perhaps that is the problem. Too much expectation, not enough skill.

To play for one day. To an audience. That would be a thing. Maybe I should start again, ask for someone to teach me?

Maybe…. It would be thrilling!

Prompt, ‘case’

Posted on April 1, 2021April 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, black case, case, Drawing, Fun, Life, Music, Prompt, TrumpetLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘case’ so I decided to draw my trumpet in its case. I haven’t practiced for a year, since the first lockdown. I hooe one day to start lessons again… The drawing is very dark as the case is black…

Draw your hobby

Posted on March 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Drawing, Fun, Hobby, Life, Music, Play, Poem, Poetry, Trumpet, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent4 Comments

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Draw your hobby,

that’s what they said,

Trumpet? True I thought

I must try

to apply some practice

to this instrument.

3B pencil

And ink too.

So blow

cold wind flow

and play..

Learning the trumpet

Posted on August 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breath, Fun, Learning, Music, Noise, Playing, Sound, Trumpet2 Comments

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This is the finger positions fit the New world symphony that Im trying to learn. I can get the lower notes ( I still need to learn which notes are which). One thing with loud music being played outside is that no one can hear the notes I’ve been murdering in here!

I need to get my lips stronger to get a good embouchure. Practice is the only way to do it. At the moment the air escapes from the side of my mouth instead of going down the trumpet. Then there is the moisture from your breath. That’s why you have drainage holes to let it out.

Anyway maybe I will learn it well enough to play to people? We will see.

Satsuma

Posted on July 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fruit, Life, Photo, Satsuma, TrumpetLeave a comment

Photo of part of my lunch. I just liked the fruit and peel against the table top pattern. Isn’t it fab that the white lines on the table seem to mirror the segments of the fruit?

Its been a busy day, discussing a mural proposal, then having lunch, then off to a trumpet lesson ( the first for months) I’m learning a part of the new world symphony. Now I’ve got to get ready to go out for the opening of the three counties open exhibition as I managed to get a painting into it. I’m pleased because it’s chosen from submissions from artists in Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire and is on at Burslem School of Art, Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent for a month. …

So a bit of a boring fruit based blog… Sorry!

Mallaband-Brown

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Trumpet playing

Trumpet playing

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Prompt, ‘case’

Draw your hobby

Learning the trumpet

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