What Happened to Being a Musician?

[sloan]

As for classifications, I believe that there are two types of people: those that classify things into two groups and those that don't.

There are 11 kinds of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.

That's only 10 types. What's the 11th one?
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Joe Baker, who is the first type.

Whooooosh!

[imperialbari]

There are 11 kinds of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.

That's only 10 types. What's the 11th one?
_______________________________
Joe Baker, who is the first type.

Whooooosh!

Thanks to Joe B for replying ahead of me!

But then Kenneth has one advantage over a lot of us:

He has no need to keep a bull!

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

[imperialbari]

My grandfather stood at the lathe so that my father could sit at the drafting table so that I could stare at a computer screen so that my sons can study music.

Repeat as necessary.

My grandfather was a bank vice president so that my father could be a bank president/corporate executive. I paid for my own kollig (since I wasn't getting a bidness degree), gadjiated summo come loud, taught at a couple o' kollijiz, and eventually turned from most of that disconnected b.s. (corporate/academic) to stand at a lathe after drafting out plans (ahhhhhh...the gratifying world of 3D ).

bloke "who has done other things as well - including being a perfeshunul toobuh playuh and being a landlord to a bank"

Joe, I may have studied a few more languages than you, possibly also more history, math, and musicology. But what you exercise in this posting is intellectually a pure joy to read. In its own way it equals, what one of your political antagonists has done on this board.

This board may have a dozen really sharp posters, some of them sadly not very active. You are in the dirty half of that dozen, but you are in good company.

And the dirty portion fortunately is not about your business practices. You are no rural stinker.

I have noticed your number of postings. That amazing productivity makes one wonder, how you get the time to do your brass magics in several senses.

As you may have discovered, I put an agent on you (Code D). D tells, that you are going rural. Hopefully you will stay on the web.

And if you want to reach Alabamaian qualities of production as recently demonstrated here, then you can keep your own bull. Covering double purposes it should be a Jersey.

Sorry for writing in code. The dirty as well as the less dirty halves of the dozen will be able to crack it.

To sum up my ideas: to be a complete musician takes talent, but even talent needs education. And worst of all even well educated talents need to work very hard.

But then even us lesser talents (not including Joe in this statement) may have a lot of fun from doing the education and hard working stuff.

For those hopefully not so few ending up being convinced, that a thorough knowledge of scales and arpeggios is part of the hard work portion:

My project of uploading free music encompasses a quite thorough scale training system adapted to any combination of reading system and instrument pitch normally found on this board. The link is in my signature.(Please read the preface before starting the printer).

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

[BVD Press]

Please pardon the interruption:

What are the odds Bloke will get to 6000 posts by the end of this thread?

end of interruption.

[MartyNeilan]

I have thought about adding something earlier to the transposition thread, but hung back. Since the finger seems to be pointing at me now, I have done some rather creative transcriptions, including my favorite - Bach Brandenburg #2, trupet gospel solos, horn and cello works, a trumpet virtuoso piece Concertpiece (Curnow) first performed by Phil Smith at my school, and the requisite Stars and Stripes pic solo when I was 16. In my MIDI alter-ego, I have done everything and anything under the sun, often live and not sequenced, as creatively as possible. The key to all this? I NEVER WROTE ANYTHING DOWN.
My take on transcribing is know clefs, transpositions, etc. Know how to read trumpet music fluently on BBb, CC, and F tuba (and Eb if that's what ya got). Even if your tenor and alto clef may be a hair rusty (no more), make absolute best friends with treble clef despite being a tuba player - no excuses. Know Bb and Eb transpositions, as there is a lot of clarinet, trumpet, and sax stuff out there you may want to devour. Be able to play every piece you have on every horn you have, no matter how high or low, fast or slow.
The majority of solo stuff I have played over the years was never written for tuba, but noone ever complained when I played it. Make your own solos.
End sermon.

P.S. My grandfather was a German machinist and told me to never be a "workhorse." He lived into his early seventies and never made more than a modest income, but was able to support his family and never spent more than a weekend unemployed his entire life. My stepfather was in insurance and I made more than he ever did when I was 23. He also passed away at the extremely young age of 45. I am not sure how any of this is related to anything.

[windshieldbug]

What are the odds Bloke will get to 6000 posts by the end of this thread?

100%, since he's hit 6000 and this thread isn't finished or locked yet...