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hi did you know that the fastest way to learn is to get absolutely and utterly sick and tired of what’s not working you know you want to get better you know how the system works or maybe you’re not quite sure how the system works you’re not happy with your sound or you’re happy with your Technique you’re not happy with your range your flexibility your ability to play the music that you love and you try one method and another method and another meth method and work on
this and this and this and this well that’s what I was like I got to the point where it didn’t matter what method I was playing from I was not getting the results that I wanted and I knew I was capable of getting so it got to the point where I needed to start and look at how the instrument Works how the body works and put all that together to finally experience and achieve the results that I wanted to get now the thing is it was
really really different uh to what I’d been taught and to what I expected it’s very counterintuitive now of course if you don’t believe something good luck changing the brain I call your 1.0 brain your current default wiring I call him Brian because then all of a sudden our conscious mind that wants better results than what Brian’s providing we got to tell him what we need to do and obviously muscles uh don’t have any memory there’s this whole myth about muscle memory the muscles just simply obey
what they’re told to do the electronic impulses from Brian so we need to make sure that we tell Brian exactly what we want the muscles to do so there’s a real conscious versus subconscious rewiring reprogramming going on now of course if you don’t believe something that somebody tells you the brain will not change and I spend my life getting people to reconsider the way that they’re thinking about things they often say to me that can’t work or like Brian the brain used to say to me
when I was learning new things that can’t possibly work but I understood the system I got inside the physics and I understood the anatomy and put them together and all of a sudden the pro the approach of using strength and brute force and overblowing and pinching the lips and all these errors that we make all of a sudden became unnecessary but you have to be sick and tired of the results that you’re getting to actually think outside the box to think differently I’ve literally had people
say to me that can’t work you can’t play like that whilst they’re having trouble with their own playing it’s like well what they’re working on isn’t working working but what I’m explaining to them their immediate response is that can’t work that’s their brine the brain coming out and saying that doesn’t work that’s not what I’ve been told but in my own experience I had to put aside my existing belief system to explore new opportunities based on physics based on the reality of what’s going on in
the whole concept of sound creation so if you are sick of and tired of not getting the results that you want from your playing step outside the box leave your preconceived ideas at the door and come and have a look around at the windworks trumpet Academy I’m giving you all of this information 7 Days absolutely free you want to buy a helicopter go and fly it for 7 days and it won’t cost you and said sure want to buy a new car go and drive it
the whole week before you even consider paying for it you don’t have to buy it you don’t have to stay all I’m getting you to do is come and consider some other opportunities if you are sick and tired of not getting the results that you want to get with your plane what do you got to lose and we’ve got a great community of subscribers all over the planet learning a new easier better way of playing and eventually Brian goes from this must work because he understands
it to just do that I know what I need to do now then you change the brain you change the outcome and you’re on the stage that you’ve always wanted to be on playing the way that you’ve always wanted to play your dream Avatar I look forward to seeing you for your 7-Day free trial at the windworks trumpet Academy don’t miss out it’s the best thing around have a great [Music] [Applause] [Music] day
Greg Spence shares how frustration led him to reconsider his approach to brass playing. This lesson explores the beliefs and familiar habits that can make trying something different difficult.
What can you examine when trumpet practice feels stuck?
Greg encourages looking beyond the choice of method book to the body and instrument system. He uses Brian the Brain to discuss how understanding an alternative approach can make a new playing sensation easier to explore.
This recording is part of Greg Spence’s public teaching archive. References to dates, events and offers reflect the original recording.
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