jiarby
New Member
Ahh. The equipment question. Seen here over and over again...
When I was a musician I played in lead trumpet in a big college jazz program. We were on the road doing a 5-6 city tour and playing with a guy named Jon Faddis. In the trumpet world Faddis is quite famous. Besides the concerts we also held clinics/master classes. There would be 40-50 local trumpet players (all high school kids) that would watch us play something, then Faddis would make a comment to illustrate some point.
At the end of this thing there was a Q&A. HS kids are always hung up on equipment. What horn/valve oil/mute/mouthpiece do you use. As if they could learn the magic hardware combination then they could replicate our sound/results.
Then one of these kids made a snippy comment about how Faddis could play double-c's only because he played on a teeny pea shooter mouthpiece... it was like this:
kid: "I play on a large bore concert symphonic model.... not a dinky small mouthpiece like YOU... how am I going to learn to play high??
Faddis: "WTF?" paraphrased "Listen to this"
Then he tears off a monster screaming bebop lick that no one on earth can play (except Arturo Sandoval) with his "dinky mouthpiece"
Faddis: "Is that the kind of lick you are talking about?"
Kid: "Yeah...MY horn/mouthpiece won't let me do that"
Faddis: "Let me see it..."
The kid digs out his horn and mouthpiece and hands it up to Faddis...we all know what is coming don't we.
Faddis plays the exact same bebop lick and a few other things then looks at the horn again on both sides and hands it back to the kid...
Faddis: "Nope... looks like your horn is just fine. Maybe you need to practice more?"
Corel vs. Illustrator? Pick one and learn to use it. The horn doesn't matter.
When I was a musician I played in lead trumpet in a big college jazz program. We were on the road doing a 5-6 city tour and playing with a guy named Jon Faddis. In the trumpet world Faddis is quite famous. Besides the concerts we also held clinics/master classes. There would be 40-50 local trumpet players (all high school kids) that would watch us play something, then Faddis would make a comment to illustrate some point.
At the end of this thing there was a Q&A. HS kids are always hung up on equipment. What horn/valve oil/mute/mouthpiece do you use. As if they could learn the magic hardware combination then they could replicate our sound/results.
Then one of these kids made a snippy comment about how Faddis could play double-c's only because he played on a teeny pea shooter mouthpiece... it was like this:
kid: "I play on a large bore concert symphonic model.... not a dinky small mouthpiece like YOU... how am I going to learn to play high??
Faddis: "WTF?" paraphrased "Listen to this"
Then he tears off a monster screaming bebop lick that no one on earth can play (except Arturo Sandoval) with his "dinky mouthpiece"
Faddis: "Is that the kind of lick you are talking about?"
Kid: "Yeah...MY horn/mouthpiece won't let me do that"
Faddis: "Let me see it..."
The kid digs out his horn and mouthpiece and hands it up to Faddis...we all know what is coming don't we.
Faddis plays the exact same bebop lick and a few other things then looks at the horn again on both sides and hands it back to the kid...
Faddis: "Nope... looks like your horn is just fine. Maybe you need to practice more?"
Corel vs. Illustrator? Pick one and learn to use it. The horn doesn't matter.
