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What is good bad and indifferent? I'm watching the live streams and missing being there.

Jon Sass killed it tonight. Some of the best jazz tuba playing I've ever heard in person. I got in this afternoon, so this is all that I have seen so far.

Nearly all these "group warmup" events at whatever conference are indistinguishable from each other, whoever leads them. I appreciated Kevin Sanders taking a slightly different approach yesterday, making a point only a few others make that it's good to make music first thing.

Meaning no disrespect to the great Brian Bowman, we're pretty much back to the same thing almost anyone could and does do.

Sure, me too. Especially that thing he did on musicality at ITEC. That was amazing. And the little side comments he made this morning, many were quite helpful.

But the approach to a daily routine or "warm-up" was pretty much interchangeable with almost every one of those I've ever seen. And I hate to pick him out, he just happened to be the one doing it today. Substitute his name for any number of other fine teachers and performers.

ValveSlide wrote:

Michael Bush wrote:But the approach to a daily routine or "warm-up" was pretty much interchangeable with almost every one of those I've ever seen. And I hate to pick him out, he just happened to be the one doing it today. Substitute his name for any number of other fine teachers and performers.

I'm sure none of them wanted to disappoint you... Maybe tomorrow's will be better.

No one, including me, gives a rip how I feel about it.

The question is why does this form of presentation exist at all, since almost all of them are interchangeable with each other. Or, if they are important, why are they not more distinctive?

ValveSlide wrote:You don't give a rip how you feel about it? Huh. OK.

Exactly. Feelings are too self-referential to be reliable guides to anything outside my own head. I try not to give my own much weight.

But anyway, Tim Buzbee sounded amazing tonight on the Youtube feed I thought. Any impressions from the room?

Regarding group warm-ups, one should remember that for *somebody* in the audience it will be the first time they hear such advice. For the rest of us, it never hurts to hear it again, maybe get ideas on how to keep it fresh. Why do people go to church, mosque, synagogue, temple, etcetera, every week when the message is always the same?