{"id":9002,"date":"2022-07-02T02:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2022-07-02T02:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:33:45","slug":"my-new-practice-mute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9002","title":{"rendered":"My New Practice Mute"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
My new practice mute at my Harrisburg house. With Olds Ambassador cornet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
I got it so I could practice quietly late in a row home. To my surprise though, it has a nice sound and feel reminiscent of a Harmon mute (which is the one Miles used for most of his career.) So it’s a good way to practice technique with a Harmon, that is, getting a variety of sounds out of it depending on volume and attack. (And it is that variety you can get with it is the reason, I believe that Miles and Roy Eldridge both used it.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
\n
I always wondered why trumpet players look so serious when they play. And then look at me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
It really does take concentration!<\/p>\n

Update on my playing:<\/p><\/div>\n

\n
\n
Ihaven’t given updates on my trumpet recently because, sadly, the combination of too much work and my shoulder and back problems cut down my playing. I’ve gone form practicing 8 to 15 hours a week–far less than one needs to really advance–to averaging less than an hour in the last month. Holding brass instruments, even the lightest ones was painful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
(Also I’ve been in Harrisburg more and it’s a lot harder to play at my preferred time,after 10 pm, in a row home than in our Philly house. Thus the new sound quieting practice mute.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
The result has been interesting. My embouchure is, of course, very week which mean my sound and endurance is poor.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
Yet the improvements in my technique–which have given me greater variety in sound, far faster articulation (which involves coordination of tonguing and fingering) even range is still there. I can’t play above high c for (and can’t quite get to G anymore) for long but I can hit those notes and even do lip trills up high.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
So if I keep feeling ok, it should just be a matter of time and practice to strengthen my embouchure again. A little frustrating but not too terrible.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new practice mute at my Harrisburg house. With Olds Ambassador cornet. I got it so I could practice quietly late in a row home. To my surprise though, it has a nice sound and feel reminiscent of a Harmon mute (which is the one Miles used for most of his career.) So it’s a good way to practice technique with a Harmon, that is, getting a variety of sounds out of it depending on volume and attack. (And it is that variety you can get with it is the reason, I believe that Miles and Roy Eldridge both used it.) I always wondered why trumpet players look so serious when they play. And then look at me. It really does take concentration! Update on my playing: Ihaven’t given updates on my trumpet recently because, sadly, the combination of too much work and my shoulder and back problems cut down\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9005,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}