Playing Lead Trumpet On Half a Lung | Rick Baptist
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Rick Baptist played lead trumpet on the Oscars for 30 years, on hundreds of film
scores for John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, and on the Tonight Show band. He did
all of it with half a left lung, after a collapsed lung at ten years old put the
horn in his hands in the first place.
In this interview he says the things almost nobody at his level will say out loud.
He was never a big practicer. The money was never in the high notes, and he only
ever saw a written double high C once in 66 years. And ten years after putting the
horn down, he still dreams about playing and still won't pick it up.
If you've been told to use more air, tighten your corners, and practice harder for
thirty years and it still hasn't worked, that's not a talent problem. That's a
method problem dressed up as a talent problem.
Chapters
0:00 Learning a trumpet solo in 3 days
8:25 Missing a note in a studio session
12:57 Trumpet warm up before a session
16:57 How much should you practice?
21:14 Missing notes on lead trumpet
28:02 Choosing a trumpet mouthpiece
36:50 He started trumpet with one lung
40:38 Trumpet breathing on half a lung
45:36 How to get studio session work
50:29 Playing trumpet under pressure
56:05 Recording John Williams scores
1:00:31 Scoring Pixar's Up
1:05:41 How session musicians get paid
1:13:57 Danny Elfman, Mission Impossible
1:19:47 14 takes of one trumpet solo
1:27:31 Hardest gig: playing the circus
1:34:09 Meeting Dizzy Gillespie
1:41:46 Why he quit playing trumpet
1:44:28 Trumpet high notes that pay
1:53:56 Free masterclass + what to watch next
#trumpetlife #trumpet #trumpetgear
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fires it up it takes a deep hit and offers me a hit, I was shaking because this was Dizzy , I was speechless!! So I took a hit, we passed it back and forth we talked about the great trumpet players on the stage and the amazing band Dizzy had traveling with him. Mickey Roker was the drummer another legend. Anyway I was scared shit thinking we were going to be arrested for smoking what ever the hell was in the pipe,it was in public. There were police by the doors because there were a lot of people, but nothing happened!!! I am not a pot or hash smoker but what ever was in that pipe got me blasted. When the concert was over I had to walk from Cambridge back to my dorm in Boston (Berklee) and it seemed like I was in a different country. Luckily it was on Mass Ave and it was a straight walk back to the dorms. A night I will never forget. Diz was a real person, very humble and funny as hell. One line that he said knocked me off the seat, Jeff Stout was playing a smoking solo and Diz said “how the hell does he play without puffing his cheeks out” 😂
Playing Lead Trumpet On Half a Lung | Rick Baptist
Harrisson Ball
11,328 views
Free Masterclass on how to improve your set up -
https://www.precisionbrass.info/webin...
Rick Baptist played lead trumpet on the Oscars for 30 years, on hundreds of film
scores for John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, and on the Tonight Show band. He did
all of it with half a left lung, after a collapsed lung at ten years old put the
horn in his hands in the first place.
In this interview he says the things almost nobody at his level will say out loud.
He was never a big practicer. The money was never in the high notes, and he only
ever saw a written double high C once in 66 years. And ten years after putting the
horn down, he still dreams about playing and still won't pick it up.
If you've been told to use more air, tighten your corners, and practice harder for
thirty years and it still hasn't worked, that's not a talent problem. That's a
method problem dressed up as a talent problem.
Chapters
0:00 Learning a trumpet solo in 3 days
8:25 Missing a note in a studio session
12:57 Trumpet warm up before a session
16:57 How much should you practice?
21:14 Missing notes on lead trumpet
28:02 Choosing a trumpet mouthpiece
36:50 He started trumpet with one lung
40:38 Trumpet breathing on half a lung
45:36 How to get studio session work
50:29 Playing trumpet under pressure
56:05 Recording John Williams scores
1:00:31 Scoring Pixar's Up
1:05:41 How session musicians get paid
1:13:57 Danny Elfman, Mission Impossible
1:19:47 14 takes of one trumpet solo
1:27:31 Hardest gig: playing the circus
1:34:09 Meeting Dizzy Gillespie
1:41:46 Why he quit playing trumpet
1:44:28 Trumpet high notes that pay
1:53:56 Free masterclass + what to watch next
#trumpetlife #trumpet #trumpetgear