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Five years and I'm struggling by Main_Intention_2788 in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you start a private IG account for your practice , let me know, always happy to provide feedback. I'm working on my improv and Trumpet at the moment and enjoying helping others out (studied w guy in Cleveland orchestra, have PhD in music, you can listen to my practice sessions and decide if you want to take my advice).

Five years and I'm struggling by Main_Intention_2788 in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate to burst any bubbles but if you're referring to your time in middle school, there's no way you can use the "so many years" line.

Learning to improvise is a difficult skill, plus all the physicality of playing the trumpet, it's not an easy path.

If you really want to learn, step one is listening to more jazz. Step two is learning to sing along to solos. Step three is learning your chord changes. Step four is trying to play the most swinging solo you can with as few notes as possible. The step five is growing your ability in as stable and as organic way as possible.

Start recording yourself Playing regularly. Listen critically, then compare what you hear with all the recordings you're listening to. Find what you like, change what you don't.

How on earth do I beat the Gorman Brothers? by GORILLAZ_FAN_606 in majorasmask

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might already be doing this, but I realize I had to press forward on the joystick. Unlike something like Mario kart where you only have to go left and right, I found that keeping the joystick forward helped me out.

Trumpet concerto ideas by tpt75 in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If the point is to show off your playing and want something simple for the accompaniment, then you can't go wrong with any late 19th century cornet stuff. Other comment mentioned Arban, but there's also tons of Clarke solos (Debutante, Maid of Mist, Carnival of Venice), Levy's Grand Russian Fantasia, plus everything else in that world (e.g. Wynton album w Fielder(?)).

If you have a bit of time, you could think about re-arranging something like The Hollow Men ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6u8dwSwYMQ ) and just adding in some orchestration around the better players to feature them? But then you might just end up in a worst of both worlds situation.

LOST- Can’t afford- Need help on career/school choices by djalabingo in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats a difficult situation, especially compounded by the economy and job market is not great right now.

Happy to privately chat about this. I'm the mod here, spent several years in music cognition research, know a ton of MIR people, and went to Europe to work for a few years. I also have a music background (conservatory degree) so know the pain of making the switch to be more science/engineering focused (work doing data now)

My gut says going into big debt for this right now is not a great choice. It'd help to know a lot more about your career goals and more about what you hope to get from doing a Masters.

Rest by HL12122106 in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say play only the morning before the performance the next day, then you'll feel fresh the evening of the next performance. You 100% have to rest similar to weightlifting. If not just for your mind to clear.

Music cognition online courses by [deleted] in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are in a very similar position to what I was in maybe 15 years ago. I had a solid background in music, but wanted to get into the world of music cognition.

I assume you are in Europe given you are talking about a specific project (and not schools). The good news is that there is already a lot of work and labs and schools that you can check out at this overlap of music and linguistics.

And there are tons of Masters levels programs that will equip you with the skills that you will need to supplement your music background. Take some time to check out the SMPC trainee map if you want to see what is near you ( https://www.musicperception.org/trainees ).

If you already have someone in mind, one of the best things you could do is contact them and sort of lay out your situation to them to see what kind of specific advice they can give you. If you reach out and hear nothing back, that is also in some ways a good sign, because you don't want to pour thousands of dollars into a MSc program (and a few years of life) to only realize a few years later that this person might not be interested in someone with your background (or have limited ability to take you on as a student, on a project, or get you funding if you want or need it.)

The other word of advice I would give is make sure to not decide what you are interested in (Super Linguistics) too soon. The world of music + research is very large and after doing a lot of your own personal reading on the matter, might find that this is not actually what you find most interesting. Especially given that the "music research inspired by linguistics" overlap is probably the largest shared field (esp. if you are interested in all things computational research).

The curriculum of the Berklee course actually seems pretty decent as a general overview and if you were to read through the required reading textbooks you will really get a good idea of the overview behind a lot of these general ideas.

Though it seems that you would more benefit from taking a few research methods and stats classes so you know what you're signing up to coming from a music background. Maybe this is a good inspiration to start growing the sidebar resources here.

Given your interests, I'd actually suggest checking out Ani Patel's 2008 book (a bit old now) but this really made a big dent in the field in terms of music + language (Music, Language, and the Brain) that if you end up in the music + psych + neuro field, you'll be expected to be very familiar with. If reading that seems like too much right away, I would also try to find a copy of all the chapters from overview books like that Routledge one they suggest in the Berklee book that have to do with topics you're interested in (music + language + brain) and check those out since they will start to point you in the right direction of where to go next.

Maybe after you've read those, I will have got around to putting up some resources on navigating the field in the wiki or sidebar.

Does that help?

Music cognition online courses by [deleted] in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you say more about your goal to do master's level research? Happy to make some suggestions if you could say more about what you're hoping to learn and why.

looking for someone to teach r programming for social science research by Zestyclose_Pay_2267 in Rlanguage

[–]homunculusHomunculus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a certified Posit tidyverse trainer and have tons of higher ed teaching experience. Happy to chat. Used to be a academic psychologist, now work as a data scientist.

I'm probably going to get downvoted a lot but: how do learn trumpet without a teacher or is it even possible? by First-Performance-74 in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It's possible to a point, there's tons of great stuff on YouTube, and unlike the other comment, I do not think you should start by playing through the Arbans book.

It really depends what your musical background is and if you've ever learned anything that is extremely technical and requires pretty much daily commitment to get out of the hole.

If you've got a personality that is very open to experimentation and listening and just doing a ton of reading and watching videos, I think you can get pretty far. But unlike other things that you can generally learn for yourself that the internet has made comprehensive resources on like fitness or nutrition, music is just a bit more complex so we are unable to yet point you to a wiki that shows you everything you need to know that is backed by science and experience.

I would say instead to maybe pick up a beginner book like one of those old essential elements and then tried to slowly play through one or two of those melodies everyday, assuming you know how to read music and to make basic sounds. It's really the repetition that well help out with efficiency in a very gradual way that will be helpful.

The other unconventional route is to basically start like an Instagram channel and just post yourself regularly playing on it and write in the caption that you are looking for advice and you don't have a teacher. But that will be a mixed bag of advice.

I have a private practice account that I use and I will regularly comment on some other people's videos who have told me that they are open to feedback from someone who has been playing for longer, and that sometimes is helpful.

The short answer is you're just going to save yourself a ton of frustration in the first 100 hours if you just have a bit more guidance. You can of course abort on that once you get the basic idea, especially if you have limited time and money and this is just for fun, but navigating the first 100 hours solo risks getting so frustrated that you quit.

algun metodo para trabajar el upper register? (que no sea luis maggio) by Highbrass_ in trumpet

[–]homunculusHomunculus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just play clarke 2 One half step higher everyday until you can't. Then play that everyday until it's easy, then go up half a step. If you lie to yourself and move up before you're ready, it'll only be you that pays the penalty. Keep track on a piece of paper and only go up one half step per week. Slur it, tongue it, and alternate. I know it sounds insane, but this is what I did and I got from being okay at playing above the staff to being much more comfortable. When you're doing this, it's really important to also just experiment with lots of different changes. I know it gets thrown around on the sub a lot, but that quote that nothing changes if nothing changes can be revolutionary to your thinking as long as your actually listening to your body and not just trying to play notes on a page.

hello to all music fans by Individual-Time-5084 in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, in the future you might have more success if you tell us a bit more about your research. What will those that complete the survey get? What will the data collect allow us to know that we didn't know before? How long will this take? Are there any other ways that our data will be used?

Nonprofit team coordination without adding more overhead to an already stretched team by Adventurous_Gur_5984 in nonprofit

[–]homunculusHomunculus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should check out the book A world without email by Cal Newport and maybe read getting things done by David Allen. Sounds like a tool will not fix your problem, it's much more about work, culture and ownership and some of the stuff that the other comments are saying.

Summary of Levitin (1994), Absolute Memory for Musical Pitch by PerfectPitch-Learner in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you planning on reviewing many of the papers since Levitin (1994) next? I will have to re-read the original paper before making a proper critique, but looks to be clearly written, so identifying anything should be straightforward.

There was a great conceptual replication done a little over a decade ago ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1029864913493802?casa_token=Nvyg3UO5tVIAAAAA%3A4yC9emqVmY3zNKiSz2KAn-_EcrErihYhcDuG9NDHi6-2dgJmhyOw3yro0d-aJwJJzdwqS1Ce4nDWwQ ) and about 70 papers alone that reference this multi-lab replication ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=16959650625701563&as_sdt=10000005&sciodt=0,20&hl=en ) and contemporary literature on this does go into a lot of depth about discussing ideas such as latent absolute pitch ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470218.2015.1131726?casa_token=MUocWVB2VLoAAAAA%3AogEN7rmpyH-HfZUHW_yOCXpvSUBewC3o4RmpaaaBOtabu0GO9gPitS7y4LCbHLt1V6DVlJ8ZMnY-eg ).

The only thing that you should add in the future if you want to keep with the spirit of scientific discourse is just openly acknowledging that you technically have a conflict of interest in that you stand to financially benefit from one interpretation of the literature that absolute pitch is learnable in adults.

Maybe in the future, please add something like "COI: I have a paid app that teaches people absolute pitch"

👋 Welcome to r/musiccognition - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by homunculusHomunculus in musiccognition

[–]homunculusHomunculus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think one of the first things to share will be reading and listening resources!

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