After finishing the writing of Act 1 of my feature film, I decided to squawk out a very poor rendition of Any Dream Will Do on my gunmetal trumpet I've dubbed Blunderbuss.It was a little complicated for where I'm at currently, but fun. Oh, my Trumcor Super Stealth mute lets me play in the condo without torturing everyone else.
I've had Blunderbuss for quite some time. Since 2010 in fact. I got him when I visited Montreal in 2010. In Montreal, there is a Steve's Music that is like an unending music store. One section leads to another and there was an entire brass section. I was in heaven. This Jupiter beauty wasn't expensive, but it was quite the step up from the banged up one I got from e-Bay several years before.
I'm rusty on everything trumpet. I used to be fairly good back in high school. I was part of the brass ensemble. Our band leader wanted us to get into marching, but we didn't want to go full band geek and refused. We did play at graduations, in the lobby at Christmas, and did some other things like played for the elementary school kids. A lot of what we played was Canadian Brass music and things like O'Canada for some games.
Anyway, I pretty much need to start from scratch. I remember some notes and I can get almost musically sounding noises to come out, but it's really rough. I'd like to get better than I have ever been at it and see where that could lead.
I think the only way to get better at guitar right now without a budget for lessons is to play along with a song until I get it down path. Then slowly move to another song. Plus regularly practice scales and patterns, of course.
And that's how the river of life flows today.
R~