[Fwd: Re: [TPIN] All quiet on the TPIN front? Can we discuss air?]

[Ron Neyvatte]

Don
Sorry if I took your name in vain.
If I was off the mark hit " reply all" and set me straight. (be gentle)
Ron

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Subject: 	Re: [TPIN] All quiet on the TPIN front? Can we discuss air?
Date: 	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:59:26 -0400
From: 	Ron Neyvatte <neyvatter at hurontel.on.ca>
To: 	Glenn Bengry <soundpretty at hotmail.com>
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Glenn
You know your description of visualizing the projection of sound is so 
close to Don Johnsons description it's amazing.
His office door opened onto a very long hallway (Iwas never there) and 
he would have students open the door and aim their sound to hit the end 
of the hall.
I like your idea even better. You're projecting to an almost infinite 
distance. I'll keep listening here in Bruce County if you ever play from 
Bay City. Maybe if I hear you I'll send a few tunes your way through the 
beautiful sunsets that are projected from your country.
Ron Neyvatte.

Glenn Bengry wrote:

>John,
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>   I find myself talking about the pride of being a trumpet player, about not apologizing for anything you play or for being a player.  That attitude has to be there at the beginning.  Or at the inhale as you suggest.  The visual of where you put your sound has also helped me and helped me get students to move air.  Pick some spots way out there in front of you to play to.  That is why it has been so useful for me to stop every time I go up to the UP of Michigan or back down from the UP   there is a spot overlooking a cliff, Lake Michigan, the Mackinac Bridge, a few islands, miles of shorline dotted with pine trees.  I always stop and play Pines of Rome offstage solo to the pines along the shore or out on the island or to the horizon.l  I'm playing "to" somewhere  or "to" someone.  I try to make it personal and connect it to something deeper and less conscious within myself and connect it with something much further away from myself.  I'll stop in the middle of winter, at ni
>ght, in a snowstorm, any time whatsoever and pull my trumpet out and make the connection to the earth or to some imagined place or some imagined people alive or long passed.  
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>glenn
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>>From: john.daniel at lawrence.edu
>>Subject: Re: [TPIN] All quiet on the TPIN front?  Can we discuss air?
>>To: vaxtrpts42 at gmail.com; tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
>>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:43:32 -0500
>>CC: 
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>>Mike,
>>Unless we have some major ego conflict going on, we don't 
>>have much to say.  Kind of sad, but kind of true.
>>
>>As I start yet another school year I find myself talking 
>>about air again, since students have so little awareness 
>>of their breath while they are playing.  It is as if we 
>>believe the sound comes from somewhere else. 
>> Yadayadayada, man I get tired of the sound of my own 
>>voice.
>>
>>I say all kinds of things, some of them even help.  One of 
>>the things I've been saying this week that helps is:
>>When we inhale we have to inhale everything we expect to 
>>be able to exhale and everything we expect to make happen, 
>>musically.  So yes, inhale air, but also inhale 
>>confidence, enthusiasm, control, poise, beauty, 
>>musicianship, and the very notes you expect to play.
>>
>>This suggestion seems to get folks turned on and in the 
>>right frame of mind to play the trumpet proactively, not 
>>defensively.
>>
>>Any other imagery or suggestions that you have had success 
>>with?
>>John
>>
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