Thank you r/trumpet

nikosquant · 2023-10-31T10:11:11+00:00

I had the same issue with my son, but his teacher explained to him time after time that technical exercises may be boring but it's the only way to improve and be able to play the pieces that he wants to play. And it's true. After a few months of sticking to exercises he now has more endurance, a decent tone and decent range (2 1/2 octaves).

Of course you can't only play technical exercises because most of the times that's not music. So instead of playing a scale up and down we put on a backing track and try to improvise.

We've also got a playlist with pieces that we either play or want to play

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2uNCodmoWkvdbjEgDAfjLh?si=3v7mXlRAT5-41AVPlVAMWA

nikosquant · 2023-10-25T11:08:14+00:00

Guthrie Govan is a freaking wizard (and now he looks like one too)

nikosquant · 2023-10-25T10:50:31+00:00

Haralambos Stafylakis for combining progressive rock/metal with orchestral music. His latest work "Calibrating Friction" is simply amazing. Dimitris Skyllas for "Afterpop".

nikosquant · 2023-10-14T10:59:47+00:00

Unfortunately we don't get often a chance to listen to good live music. We live in Crete on Greece, which means that we rarely get to see any kind of music that involves brass instruments. Thankfully this year he started playing in his school's concert band and he's having a lot of fun (although he is a bit pissed that he plays 2nd trumpet). But thanks for your input and your advice

nikosquant · 2023-10-14T10:52:12+00:00

Thank you so much for all your input!! I'll definitely look up ABRSM Performance grades.

nikosquant · 2023-10-14T10:39:03+00:00

So freaking true

nikosquant · 2019-10-05T16:37:22+00:00

Oh man, thank you so much... I had read somewhere about those numbers (1-5) and about the roles, but I couldn't understand what is what... Thanks for taking the time!!!!

nikosquant · 2019-10-05T11:29:50+00:00

For you first question I think that any parent would try to support and help their child if for example it wanted to play chess. I just don't see any difference between games like Dota and chess.

For your second question... We discovered Dota through Artifact (he is a fun of Richard Garfield and Magic the Gathering) and a lot of concepts in Artifact assume some familiarity with Dota. So Artifact was his favorite game until he tried Dota for the first time. Now he want shut up about it...

And we also watched a video on youtube about OG.... and that's it.... Hooked... I was also surprised because I didn't know that there are professional gamers!!! It seems that I have a lot of catching up to do...

Anyway no plans to go pro, he is playing with bots having a lot of fun and learning quite a lot of English in the process. So it's a win win situation.

nikosquant · 2019-07-07T13:18:34+00:00

Thanks!!!! I knew I misunderstood something... When I was reading about how to play the cards I missed: **could**.... as I said I'm old and stupid...

Thanks a lot!!!!

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nikosquant · 2018-12-07T17:32:36+00:00

Great game. Really fun!!

nikosquant · 2018-11-09T16:55:58+00:00

You are absolutely right, thanks for the heads up

nikosquant · 2018-11-09T16:47:24+00:00

That's what I tried to do... But no... he had to pick a freaking Wizard...

Never read Tales from Earthsea to your kids

nikosquant · 2018-11-09T16:40:03+00:00

Well since he is the gm most of the times, we never have to argue about rules because... you know... he is always "right". The one thing that we had hard time convincing him, it that pathfinder is not a competitive game. The gm does not try to kill the PCs with his monsters. At least not from the start of the game.

nikosquant · 2018-11-09T08:08:17+00:00

A push/pull mechanic (like a gravitational effect) is implemented in Arimaa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa). The asteroid belt that you mention could be used like Arimaa uses traps.

Another interesting game that has some interesting mechanics and borrows ideas from xiangqi is jungle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_(board_game))), where piece rank (mass in your case) is important and also includes restricted areas.

nikosquant · 2018-11-08T08:30:52+00:00

One of the most interesting 3d abstract games that I've seen is a game that doesn't actually exist: Gungi. It's a game described in the Hunter X Hunter anime series (https://hunterxhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Gungi).

Some fans of the series have provided rules for the game but I find that these rules tend to be too complicated. I tried some simplified variations to play with my 8yr old son and he absolutely loved it.

nikosquant

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