![]() Music and its incomprehensible magic is what attracted and instigated my life long pursuit. Because the goosebumps kept coming every time I witnessed live music, I realised there was something to it. Hearing all of my friends playing that melody and making music together also gave me those goosebumps. ![]() We played The Water is Wide, a beautiful old english folk song. The third time was when I started playing trumpet in the middle school band. I got the goosebumps, just like when I heard Michael Jackson. The second time was in church while hearing a gospel song. The magic and transformational energy that came through the screen just touched me and I knew I wanted to be a part of something that powerful. I was jumping up and down and had goose-bumps. I remember coming home from school and waiting to see him perform with his brothers which would later to our surprise be a show stopping historic moon-walk during the Billie Jean selection. I guess my first attraction to music in general was watching and listening to Michael Jackson perform on television on Motown 25. I play the trumpet not just for musical reasons, but for spiritual reasons.Ĭan you share how you came to work in the music industry? The sound created by the excitement that happens in a lead pipe not solely air, and The psycho~acoustics are so unpredictable I doubt that there are enough gigabytes to sample that sound or physically model it like you can a string.The trumpet embodies everything that I feel I am as a person. Nobody can sample the variations of the attacks and the frequency overtones because the lip vibrations vary and the air fluctuates constantly. The trumpets magic can soar over an entire orchestra, It makes you dance in Pop Music, it crosses all genres and it’s usually the main feature. Anytime you meet an old trumpet player, or ex-players while traveling they all say they used to play trumpet! Ha! ![]() It’s so temperamental and so challenging physically, that most people feel it really hard to maintain in their older age like sports. You have to coerce it and coax it into working. You have to be tenacious and persistent. So in that way, the trumpet teaches you to be humble, because to be arrogant, the instrument will kick your ass any day of the week. You take 2 or 3 days off and you literally start sucking at it, you have to be married to it. You have to practice the trumpet everyday. My best friend in school said to play the trumpet, and I found out it was one of the hardest instruments to play! It is so physically demanding, so unforgiving. I originally wanted to play flute because that’s what the cute girls played. ![]()
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