I have a couple of days of teaching in a private school in south Birmingham with some of the nicest primary school kids you can imagine.<\/p>\n
I have 15 trumpet students ranging from 7 year olds starting out to my top student who is to take his grade 8 next year at the age of 12!!! He is part of the national children\u2019s orchestra with solid technique, a great ear and if the trumpet is the career path he decides to take there is no reason he won\u2019t be a great success in the future.<\/p>\n
However this entry isn\u2019t about my top student, more about one of my intermediates.<\/p>\n
This particular student is very bright with a thought process like a pinball table, arriving at logical yet random thoughts all throughout his lesson. <\/p>\n
Here is an example of such a recent bumper of thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n
Whilst explaining that not using enough air will starve the note leaving it weak and unsupported I used the phrase \u201ctrumpet fuel\u201d (referring to air as the driving force behind making any sound on the trumpet). From here his thoughts moved on:<\/p>\n
This took a total of 2 Minutes<\/p>\n
Thought 1 ) Trumpet Fuel – to – Fuel prices
\nThought 2 ) Fuel Prices \u2013 to global warming
\nThought 3 ) Cars aren\u2019t just responsible for global warming. Cows give off just as much pollution as cars.
\nThought 4 ) We must kill cows to save the planet but how to without adding more pollution.
\nThought 5 ) Take all the cows to one place and drop a nuclear bomb on them (as you do)
\nThought 6 ) That should kill them \u2013 although it might not kill chickens (?!)
\nThought 7 ) There\u2019s a record breaking chicken who lived for 2 days without it\u2019s head
\nThought 8 ) A cockroach can live longer without a head
\nThought 9 ) But they can survive a nuclear blast
\nThought 10 ) I wonder if they produce pollution?
\nThought 11 ) Do they produce more than cars?
\nThought 12 ) Maybe we could use them as fuel for cars?
\nThought 13 ) But we can\u2019t use them as trumpet fuel.
\nThought 14 ) So I need to put more air down to get the E then???<\/p>\n
A full revolution of semi-logical pinball thoughts in order to play an E in \u201cThe Mexican Chilli Out\u201d!!<\/p>\n
I sat down for the rest of the lesson\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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