There is a lot more than just playing your horn.
The following are some things to keep in mind in the music business:
BE PATIENT
SHOW UP
SHOW UP ON TIME
BE PATIENT
ALWAYS BE HAPPY TO BE THERE
THAT FIRST IMPRESSION CAN MAKE OR BREAK
AS A PLAYER, MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE FOR ANYTHING
BE PATIENT
BE PROMPT IN RETURNING PHONE CALLS
KEEP THE ATTITUDE IN CHECK
WHAT YOU DO CAN HAVE AN AFFECT ON THE WHOLE SECTION AND THE WHOLE BAND
THE LEADER (contractor, musical director, band leader, producer, etc.) IS NOT INTERESTED IN WHO TICKED YOU OFF THAT DAY. ALL THEY WANT IS A GOOD PERFORMANCE.
COUNT THE RESTS
You see an 8 bar rest? You think you can hear an 8 bar phrase? You come in wrong?? Ha ….When sight reading, count it!! Listen for the phrase making sure it doesn’t have an odd phrase in the middle (i.e. 2 1/2 bars and 5 1/2 bars). It might be confusing and then you end up coming in wrong. Embarrassing???
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS GO BACK TO THE WOODSHED!
Ok so you got a gig! You’re playing some show or in some band playing in a club or theater or touring for a week, 3 weeks, 2 months. You figure you have a chance to relax and make a little $$. During the day, you don’t do anything. “Oh, I don’t need to take my lessons or go play in that rehearsal band cuz I’m kinda busy now.” or, “Boy I’m tired. I played til late last night and I don’t even want to look at my horn.” It’s good to maybe take a day of rest but don’t make this a habit.
ALWAYS KEEP PRACTICING! Warm up routines are of the utmost importance.
Scales, etudes, play along CD’s, whatever you normally practice. Go play in that rehearsal band. Woodwind players, play through those reeds and find a good one.
IT IS A GIVEN FACT YOU CAN PLAY YOUR INSTRUMENT. TRY TO AVOID PRACTICING (noodling) ON THE GIG.
WHEN YOU DO PRACTICE, USE A TUNER AND A METRONOME IN PART OF YOUR SESSION.
GET YOURSELF OUT OF REHEARSAL MODE AND INTO PERFORMANCE MODE
I can recall playing through 12 -15 pieces of music a semester in college. Now it can be 12 – 15 pieces a day. I found out that I needed to get into a performance mode quickly. This meant sight reading skills, awareness, ensemble practice, phrasing, styles, etc. All of this has to be addressed right away. This sounds like much preparation but remember it’s all about performing not rehearsing. Even during rehearsal try to make music each time.
DID I MENTION TO BE PATIENT?
FOR SIGHT READING ,
LEARN ALL SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS TO DEVELOP KEY CENTERS.
COUNT THE RESTS.
LISTEN TO CHORDS ON A PIANO. THE MORE THE BETTER. Learn what a 4, 8, 12 or 16 bar phrase feels like
GET TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES AND PLAY. DUETS, TRIOS, ANY COMBINATION. A GOOD PRACTICE IS TO PLAY DUETS USING A METRONOME.
TRADE FOURS, CHORUSES
BE AWARE OF EVERYTHING AROUND YOU
Practice this when sight reading. This is something that is often overlooked when performers are too busy with their own thing and don’t pay attention to what is going on in the rest of the ensemble. Try to pick out another instrument and see if the part you have matches theirs.
Use your ear to hear where you are in relationship to everything else. This seems easy, but always keep it in use. Not just with like instruments, but with all the instruments or vocals in the group. Try to create a sense of cooperation even if you have never met the person next to you. This probably means stepping up your performance level (I know I already talked about this). Seeing something for the first time and reacting accordingly!!
One of the greatest challenges I’ve had in teaching students jazz improvisation and interpretation is getting the melodic lines they play to feel good and sound authentic. Put another way, get them to “swing”. Swinging is the central element to almost every great jazz musician’s conception.
The first and most important thing a student must does to develop a good swing feel is to listen and copy the feeling that great jazz musicians get on recordings. Getting that feel on a wind instrument involves not only where the notes are placed in the beat, but also the way the notes are phrased and articulated in combination with the shape and timing of a particular line. I’ve heard many students play a Charlie Parker solo they’ve learned from the Omni book and sound nothing like Charlie Parker because of the way they phrased it. On the other hand, I’ve heard students who have sounded much more like Charlie Parker because of their conception of phrasing, even though they may have played some wrong notes.
TRY TO BE EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE
Sometimes people don’t really know what they want musically. If there seems to be communication gap, get the job done diplomatically .
Reputation is what people think of you. Character is what you think of you. Try to keep what you think of you and people think of you in line. Don’t be surprised if what you perceive as right is different to other people. This sounds obvious but many people overlook it
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Shower. Not a bath, a shower. Use water as hot or cold as you like. You don’t even need to wash. Just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. Sit on the floor if you gotta.
Moisturize everything. Use whatever lotion you like. Unscented? Dollar store lotion? Fancy 48 hour lotion that makes you smell like a field of wildflowers? Use whatever you want, and use it all over your entire dermis.
Put on clean, comfortable clothes.
Put on your favorite underwear. Cute black lacy panties? Those ridiculous boxers you bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? Put them on.
Drink cold water. Use ice. If you want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost. I always use lemon.
Clean something. Doesn’t have to be anything big. Organize one drawer of a desk. Wash five dirty dishes. Do a load of laundry. Scrub the bathroom sink.
Blast music. Listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. Sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
Make food. Don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. Take the time and make food. Even if it’s ramen. Add something special to it, like a soft boiled egg or some veggies. Prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something.
Make something. Write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. Even if you don’t think you’re good at it. Create.
Go outside. Take a walk. Sit in the grass. Look at the clouds. Smell flowers. Put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
Call someone. Call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. Talk to a stranger on the street. Have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. If you can’t bring yourself to call, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. Even if you don’t say much, listen to them. It helps.
Cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. Take pictures of them. Talk to them. Tell them how you feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out, anything.
May seem small or silly to some, but this list keeps people alive.
#depression #selfcare
*** At your absolute best you won’t be good enough for the wrong people. But at your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right ones. Remember that. Keep holding on.
*** In case nobody has told you today I love you and you are worth your weight and then some in gold, so be kind to yourself and most of all keep pushing on!!!!
Find something to be grateful for!
**copied and pasted, feel free to do the same**
by: Max Born
December 29 at 3:26 PM ·
Probably many of you know that my grandfather, of the same name, was a very famous man who practically invented Quantum Physics, in all its strangeness. And as a good friend of Einstein he argued with him over the new ideas that stated that “reality” could not, could never, be absolutely pinned down, that you could only state “probabilities”. Einstein argued that this was only because the full picture had not become clear yet. It was to Max that he made his famous declaration, “God does not play dice!” Max was passed over for the Nobel Prize for years, though others of his students received it much earlier, like Heisenberg. Finally they awarded him the prize for Physics in 1953, and my father told my brother and I just before he died, that Max´s wife had somehow so insulted the King of Sweden that he stormed out of the room and was not present at the ceremony…!! People pleasers we ain´t.
Anyways, I don´t know much about physics. But I visited him in hospital in Germany when he was dying, and asked him if he felt that death was the end… after that, nothing… or, maybe, something…? I was 19 years old and hadn´t seen him for years. To my relief he didn´t freak out, nor answer me in words, but he smiled at me in a way that I interpreted as that he was open minded… I had told him all about my experiments with psychedelics and what I felt these experiences had done for me. I left for England, and he died shortly after, in 1970.
Some months later I and my girlfriend had a session with a psychic at the London HQ of the British Spiritualist Association. The psychic sad to me, right away, “I see a little old man, dear, white hair, you know who I mean?” I thought, old man? White hair? I know lots of people, lots of friends, some are old, 28, even 30… but white hair? WTF…?
“Yes dear, you know…?”
Me: You don´t mean my grandfather…?
“Yes dear, of course, he wants to wish you a happy birthday!”
Wow, I thought, she knows it´s my birthday today… amazing.
But I didn´t connect that with my question to Max till a few months later, when I sat up in bed and said wow!
But where this is all going, is this. Max knew that the Nazis meant big trouble as soon as they seized power in ´33. And he was “Jewish” to the Nazis, though he wasn´t technically (it is through the mother) and he and his family before him were irreligious, in fact anti-religious, and they had all been scientists for several generations. He began to look for university posts outside of Germany, elsewhere in Europe. Luckily he settled on Edinburgh, because if he had accepted chairs in Denmark, Italy, France, Holland, etc…
So he and his wife and 3 children – 2 daughters and my father Gus, fled Germany, years before war broke out, losing his position, his property, and his old life. So they all survived. And he helped many others to flee to safety.
And guess what…? They called him crazy, paranoid, stupid, foolish… all the names people call those who can sense the way the wind is blowing and who act on their belief, even if no one understands, and against enormous hostility. History proved him correct of course. And it is in this sense that I have always identified with him. And I like to think that I have a little of his courage, and some of his suspicion of the “new normal”.
The big difference today is that there is nowhere to run to. There is no safe country, no safe haven, from the new, re-branded Nazi Global Coup – the Great Reset – taking place. Unless we all resist, together… we, and civilisation, are toast. So I don´t care what names I´m called, or how much I am misunderstood… I stand with my grandfather, and all those who can see, who can sense, the gigantic iceberg dead ahead as we plough full steam towards disaster.
Thanks for listening.
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IMPORTANT CONFIRMATION OF THE WORST
The shocking reason why Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine requires storage at -70C … because it contains experimental nanotech components that have NEVER been used in vaccines before
You’re seeing the reports all over the news: Pfizer’s new coronavirus vaccine requires storage at -70C (-94F), which is much colder than the North Pole. If it’s not stored at this temperature, its ingredients begin to break down and it fails to work. Currently Pfizer is claiming, without evidence, that its vaccine is “90% effective.” But this claim is little more than corporate propaganda designed to drive up stock prices through false projections. But why do these vaccines need to be kept at -70C in the first place? The answer, it turns out, is because they contain potentially hazardous ingredients that have never been used in vaccines before. As Children’s Health Defense explained in an August 6th article, “mRNA vaccines undergoing Covid-19 clinical trials, including the Moderna vaccine, rely on a nanoparticle-based “carrier system” containing a synthetic chemical called polyethylene glycol (PEG).” CHD goes on to explain: The use of PEG in drugs and vaccines is increasingly controversial due to the well-documented incidence of adverse PEG-related immune reactions, including life-threatening anaphylaxis. Roughly seven in ten Americans may already be sensitized to PEG, which may result in reduced efficacy of the vaccine and an increase in adverse side effects. If a PEG-containing mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 gains FDA approval, the uptick in exposure to PEG will be unprecedented—and potentially disastrous. Moderna documents and publications indicate that the company is well aware of safety risks associated with PEG and other aspects of its mRNA technology but is more concerned with its bottom line. Learn more about the super cold temperature requirements for the coronavirus vaccine in my Daily News Brief for Nov. 18th, 2020:
Lipid nanoparticles cause hyperinflammatory responses in the body, leading to severe reactions, hospitalization and potentially DEATH
Why are LNPs (Lipid Nanoparticles) used in these vaccines? As CHD further explains: LNPs “encapsulate the mRNA constructs to protect them from degradation and promote cellular uptake” and, additionally, rev up the immune system (a property that vaccine scientists tamely describe as LNPs’ “inherent adjuvant properties”) In other words, the LNPs are adjuvants, meaning they are designed to cause hyperinflammatory responses in human beings, once injected. This is done in an effort to induce the creation of antibodies that then allow the vaccine manufacturer to claim high “effectiveness” rates, even when those very same adjuvants cause severe adverse reactions. According to recent vaccine trials conducted by Moderna, 100% of human subjects in the high-dose vaccine trial group experienced adverse reactions.
UK government prepared for a vaccine death wave
The adverse reactions caused by mRNA coronavirus vaccines are so widespread that the UK government recently admitted it is expecting a massive wave of coronavirus vaccine “adverse reactions” / side effects. As described in my previous article, “VACCINE DEATH WAVE: UK government posts bid for AI system to process the expected flood of COVID-19 vaccine injuries and side effects described as a ‘direct threat to patient life'”: The UK government has posted a bid and an award contract notice, seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that can process the expected flood of covid-19 vaccine injuries and side effects. That bid explains, in the government’s own words: The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed. In other words, they already know these vaccines are going to kill a huge number of people. David Knight featured a UK whistleblower on his show today who revealed that coronavirus vaccine adjuvants are demonstrating a 97% sterility rate in women who take the vaccine. This is what happens when you turn your protein synthesis over to evil corporations who are pursuing a global depopulationa agenda:
Coronavirus vaccine deaths will be categorized as covid-19 deaths to keep the scam going
Most importantly, as people start dying from coronavirus vaccines, the medical establishment will categorize all those deaths as “covid-19 deaths” in order to claim the pandemic is getting worse. This will create a whole new cycle of death, media hysteria and mandatory vaccine policies. Those, in turn, will kill even more people, feeding into the very same feedback loop that results in even more people being vaccinated and killed. Ultimately, the vaccines themselves will likely end up killing more people than the coronavirus. And we will have achieved George Orwell’s authoritarian medical nightmare where the “treatment” keeps the pandemic going in perpetuity, all while the entire scamdemic is used to crush human freedom and enslave people in their own homes and apartments, all around the world. This is what happens when you let Big Pharma collude with the deep state to crush human freedom and work toward their ultimately goal of mass genocide against the human race. Bill Gates is no doubt celebrating right now, even before the mass deaths begin. If you want to survive all this, resist the coronavirus vaccine at all costs. Resist vaccine violence with every means of self-defense you have available, or you will be killed. (Check back later, we are adding a podcast and a flow diagram to this story…) The AstraZeneca vaccine, by the way, is made with aborted human fetal cells from a 14-week-old male baby. So if you get injected with this vaccine, it’s medical cannibalism, and you’re supporting the baby body parts harvesting-for-profit industry (i.e. Planned Parenthood baby chop shops).