Sunday, July 31, 2022

Bolter Offerings Schedule for week 8/1 - 8/5/22

Hi Everyone!

Here is This Week's Schedule of Bolter Offerings (and How To Sign Up):

NOTE - Check out my daily Instagram posts @nbolt2

8/1 - Musical Meditations Monday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:Free-will donation of your choice is appreciated but not required. But you need to text or email me that you plan on coming to get a link.

8/3/27 - Warm-Up Wednesday on Zoom 10-11am EDT: $5 donation is required for all attendees.

FBSMC 14 videos 5 and 6 will be uploaded to YouTube at various times throughout the week with companion notes. Stay tuned!

8/5 - Fundamentals Friday on Zoom 11am-12pm EDT:$7.50 donation is required for all attendees.
TOPIC: "High Range Building" New etudes to be emailed to attendees before the session.

HOW TO SIGN UP:

(Note especially #6)

1.To pay/donate, please go to: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter (Please COPY and PASTE LINK if needed). 

2.You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)

3.Click "SEND" option

4.Enter AMOUNT [based on which session(s) you are attending and the fee schedule above]

5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g., Musical Meditation Monday or Warm-Up Wednesday or FBSMC 14 or more than one)

6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because you're not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)

7. COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure you transaction goes through)

8. You will receive a ZOOM LINK WITHIN 24 HOURS. If you do NOT receive the link, check that you completed the transaction. If you did complete the transaction, please email me (normtobe at gmail dot com) so I can send you a link directly.

Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested in attending any or all of these sessions.

NOTE ALSO: Please have your donation in by the end of the evening the day before your session begins. If you are late, please have your donation in no later than one hour before the beginning of the session and email me at normtobe at gmail dot com or text me 617-759-1620 no later than a half hour before the session begins.  Only those that have sent in the donation will get a Zoom link.

Hope to see you soon at a session you choose!

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Bolter Offerings Schedule for the week of 7/25 - 7/30/22

Hi Everyone!

Here is This Week's Schedule of Bolter Offerings (and How To Sign Up):

7/25 - Musical Meditations Monday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:Free-will donation of your choice is appreciated but not required. But you need to text or email me that you plan on coming to get a link.

7/27 - Warm-Up Wednesday on Zoom 10-11am EDT: $5 donation is required for all attendees.

FBSMC 14 video 5, title TBA. to be posted on the evening of 7/28 or 7/29

7/29 - Fundamentals Friday on Zoom 11am-12pm EDT:$7.50 donation is required for all attendees.
TOPIC: "Multiple Tonguing" New etudes to be emailed to attendees before the session.

7/30 - Class 19 of The Monthly Masterclass Series will be held on 7/30/22 from 11-12:30 EDT: $20 for those out of school and working and $10 for those in school. TOPIC: Beyond Bordogni New mini etudes will be emailed to participants

HOW TO SIGN UP:

(Note especially #6)

1.To pay/donate, please go to: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter (Please COPY and PASTE LINK if needed). 

2.You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)

3.Click "SEND" option

4.Enter AMOUNT [based on which session(s) you are attending and the fee schedule above]

5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g., Musical Meditation Monday or Warm-Up Wednesday or FBSMC 14 or more than one)

6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because you're not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)

7. COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure you transaction goes through)

8. You will receive a ZOOM LINK WITHIN 24 HOURS. If you do NOT receive the link, check that you completed the transaction. If you did complete the transaction, please email me (normtobe at gmail dot com) so I can send you a link directly.

Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested in attending any or all of these sessions.

NOTE ALSO: Please have your donation in by the end of the evening the day before your session begins. If you are late, please have your donation in no later than one hour before the beginning of the session and email me at normtobe at gmail dot com or text me 617-759-1620 no later than a half hour before the session begins.  Only those that have sent in the donation will get a Zoom link.

Hope to see you soon at a session you choose!

Friday, July 22, 2022

Companion notes to FBSMC 14, Video 4, "The Genius Within"

“The Genius Within”

This is a beginning dip into the territory. More is coming! My hope is that your own interest will keep you moving towards what this means to you and for your life and artistic development.

Getting lost. A person in love with cars, or musical instruments can have a genuine love for wonderful technology. This can be an expression and appreciation of increasing creativity and ingenuity. The question that can help calculate or assess something’s worth and value might be: Does it help life or hurt life? This can be looked at it through the three overlays; is something helping life or hurting life physically (body) overlay 1, mentally/emotionally (mind) overlay 2, soul (spiritually) overlay 3. If one of those has hurt attached to it, there is a problem.

4:40 in the video- In the age of virtual reality, a perfectionist mindset can really grow exponentially. The attitude of "we can fix anything" like photoshopping a picture or recording with lots of "state of the art" cuts with pitch and volume control. Is this really high tech or more virtual reality cop-out? What is the happy balance between technology and the actual state of affairs? Does it matter? To me it does.

The John Henry Story - A man trying to outdo a machine, at great cost to his life. This age of virtual reality is doing something similar. A human is an extraordinary being that lives inside of a marvelous best can do physical model. But, if we use virtual reality "perfection"as the main marker and standard of quality, I'm afraid we will all go the way of John Henry. What are the paths that will help lead us to our higher actual fulfillment?

The genius within us. WE ALL HAVE GENIUS IN OURSELVES. Can we access the genius we have? Once that happens it acts as a tuning fork attracting more to come into you if you keep at it. The first bit of genius might show up as a first overlay gift expressing itself as an aptitude or several talents. What will open those gifts depends upon your interest in them. Interest = “enters it.” You will get to “enter its” domain by pursuing your interest. Oftentimes an interest points to an affinity and aptitude for a subject. Our education system needs to take this equation and sentiment a lot more seriously so that each student can actually be more n touch with their abilities and be encouraged (not forced or coerced) into pursuing them. A great question arises; “What is our public education system doing to foster the uniqueness of each person by giving them ways and means to discover themselves as a living part of the wonder and magnificence of life and its purpose?

“A Drop of Genius Contains the Universe”

If a person wants to take something as far as they can, inspired by a sincere interest and love of a particular territory, it will NEVER stop opening up and revealing more knowledge, understanding, insight and revelation to them. Connecting your interest through a basic understanding of Nature, you will start to see the fundamental laws of Nature in your interest and eventually in all things. How extraordinary is that! The developed interest turns into a powerful lens in which to view the world, people, the natural worlds and everything. But! The lens is only as good as the development of the person looking through it. What a wonderful life to be lived! WE ALL HAVE GENIUS IN OURSELVES. Seek and ye shall find

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Bolter Offerings Schedule for the week of 7/18 - 7/22/22

Hi Everyone!

Here is This Week's Schedule of Bolter Offerings (and How To Sign Up):

7/18 - Musical Meditations Monday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:Free-will donation of your choice is appreciated but not required. But you need to text or email me that you plan on coming to get a link.

7/20 - Warm-Up Wednesday on Zoom 10-11am EDT: $5 donation is required for all attendees.

7/21 FBSMC 14 Video 4 “The Duet Between the First and Second Overlays” to be posted the evening 7/21 or 7/22

7/22 - Fundamentals Friday on Zoom 11am-12pm EDT:$7.50 donation is required for all attendees.
TOPIC: Bona Style Articulation (evenness in playing) Music to be sent out to attendees before the session

HEADS-UP: The next Monthly Masterclass will be held on 7/30/22 from 11-12:30 EDT: $20 for those out of school and working and $10 for those in school TOPIC: Beyond Bordogni

HOW TO SIGN UP:

(Note especially #6)

1.To pay/donate, please go to:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter

(Please COPY and PASTE LINK if needed).

  2. You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)

3. Click "SEND" option

4. Enter AMOUNT [based on which session(s) you are attending and the fee schedule above]

5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g., Musical Meditation Monday or Warm-Up Wednesday or FBSMC 14 or more than one)

6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because you're not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)

7. COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure you transaction goes through)

8. You will receive a ZOOM LINK WITHIN 24 HOURS. If you do NOT receive the link, check that you completed the transaction. If you did complete the transaction, please email me (normtobe at gmail dot com) so I can send you a link directly.

Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested in attending any or all of these sessions.

NOTE ALSO: Please have your donation in by the end of the evening the day before your session begins. If you are late, please have your donation in no later than one hour before the beginning of the session and email me at normtobe at gmail dot com or text me 617-759-1620 no later than a half hour before the session begins.  Only those that have sent in the donation will get a Zoom link.

Hope to see you soon at a session you choose!

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Bolter Offerings Schedule for the week of 7/11-7/15/22

Hi Everyone!

Here is This Week's Schedule of Bolter Offerings (and How To Sign Up):

7/11 - Musical Meditations Monday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:
Free-will donation of your choice is appreciated but not required. But you need to text or email me that you plan on coming to get a link.

7/13 - Warm-Up Wednesday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:
$5 donation is required for all attendees.

7/14 FBSMC 14 Zoom Session 3
from 6:30pm-8pm EDT, donation of $10 for students and $20 for those working and out of school. A discounted rate is being offered to those who plan on being more regular which is $35 for two sessions for those out of school and $15 for two sessions for those who are in school. Please let me know if you want this. TOPIC: Deeper look into video 3 concerning "Skill and Choice." (Bring your horns)

7/15 - Fundamentals Friday on Zoom
11am-12pm EDT

$7.50 donation is required for all attendees.
TOPIC: Legato

HOW TO SIGN UP:

(Note especially #6)

1. To pay/donate, please go to:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter

(Please COPY and PASTE LINK if needed).  

2. You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)

3. Click "SEND" option

4. Enter AMOUNT [based on which session(s) you are attending and the fee schedule above]

5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g., Musical Meditation Monday or Warm-Up Wednesday or FBSMC 14 or more than one)

6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because your are not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)

7. COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure you transaction goes through)

8. You will receive a ZOOM LINK WITHIN 24 HOURS. If you do NOT receive the link, check that you completed the transaction. If you did complete the transaction, please email me (normtobe at gmail dot com) so I can send you link directly.

Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested in attending any or all of these sessions.

NOTE ALSO: Please have your donation in by the end of the evening the day before your session begins. If you are late, please have your donation in no later than one hour before the beginning of the session and email me at normtobe at gmail dot com or text me 617-759-1620 no later than a half hour before the session begins.  Only those that have sent in the donation will get a Zoom link.

Hope to see you soon at a session you choose!

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Companion Notes for FBSMC 14, Video 3, Part 2, Building Connections

Building connections is a natural part of living. But if our connections have stopped growing, then we are subject to the ones that already live in us. That might be fine for some and very inhibiting for others. We were designed to never stop growing as person! As a great mentor of mine said, “The spider has many fixings.” So can a human being make a web with growing connections. We have the potential for unlimited connections which can be joined to the interconnectedness of ALL things.

Life in the bigger sense, is a cosmic web of interconnectedness. The material worlds express this on a physical level. Life has its essence in the very subtle unseen planes of existence which lead to the transcendental realms.

Ask yourself: are you interested in having connection to the causative worlds in Nature? The spider makes a web to catch its food. What kind of food (energy) does your web of connection catch?

Companion Notes to FBSMC 14, Video 3 Part 1, Choice, The Great Opportunity

- 30 seconds into the video, I’m saying “What is looking at the habit life?” My answer was the second overlay is looking at the habit life. But it would have been more accurate to say my second overlay is accessing what the third overlay is witnessing. I’ll leave that as a contemplation for now. :-)

-Incorporating standards and principles into ones life- walking the walk and talking the talk. Standards and principles in a person’s life offer stability and definition, especially if they are on a journey of ongoing personal development taking responsibility for their actions.

  Relating to 6:11 in the video I mention the incredible opportunity of being a human being.

The Great Opportunity in choice therefore, is a human being, endowed with the gift of choice, has the ability to deliberately decide to be closer to its actual true purpose. Their standards and principles at that point are directed towards that higher purpose which then naturally directs the quality of their actions and behavior. At this stage of growth, Self development is activating the potential of our second overlay to be in step with the third overlay (purpose) functioning as a liaison between the third and first overlays. This is what is meant by the third overlay being  named Integration and Art. When the living overlay system is truly thriving, the three overlays work in unison and become One Living Life.

Throw yourself into the pool! (relating to points made starting from 8:12 in the video). Observe habit life in people, flora and fauna. This is a wonderful way to build an understanding of habit life and that which goes beyond robotic habit life. It does take time and interest to want to do this, just like anything else one wants to develop. Jump in the water to feel it! If we want to actually understand activity, it is imperative to engage ourselves in a process that will set us on a path for this to become possible. This state of knowledge is a far cry from just repeating what someone else has come up with coming from no work of our own.

-What prevents one from going on a quest of discovery? Is it because it is easier (habit) to not think and fall back on doing what you are told instead of having the self initiative driven by personal interest to question and experiment to find out what works for you? Interest here equals a desire born out of need. If we need something badly enough, to the point where we feel desperate and/or compelled, we usually keep pushing on until we find what we need to fulfill that desire/need.

-Question things for the sake of purpose- even in career- life, i.e. like taking an audition. It’s not what we do, it’s the reason why we do it.

-Sometimes our choices take us in a different direction than we initially thought.

-Endemic in the video here meaning natural to the internal habitat of ourselves.

-Everything has a first overlay, including a civilization. Think about the past civilizations and present ones. They have customs, laws, social “norms” and so on which become automatic in the members of that society. Unfortunately, in todays present global civilization, success and failure, distrust, fear and other characteristics that are damaging to life coming from centuries of repeating the same mistakes, are part of what makes up our societal first overlay. This same overlay has influenced civilizations for thousands of years. NOT a healthy state of affairs!

-Change- healthy change and unhealthy change. Not all change is healthy..

-Working inside the parameters- do we have the courage and adherence to truth to admit our mistakes and say when something is not working? Our current environment (and in times past) does not support those who “go against the grain” of mainstream thinking and set protocols of behavior coming from those in charge of pushing and enforcing a particular narrative.

-Brass instrument makers: Other options exist in this age of more and more customization of which there are many examples, one of which is accommodating specifics for a brass player’s individual needs. Some industries however still go by one size fits all, but that is a whole other conversation.

-Other kinds of technologies

The importance of building living relationships to Nature’s laws, color, the elements, number, imagery, finer human qualities etc, is that it can be used in simple yet very scientific ways. Remember everything contains an energetic vibrancy. Think of all the different kinds of music that can enhance and/or be assistive for certain types of activity whether they be mental, physical, emotional or spiritual because of the energetic vibrancy inside of it. Energetic vibrancy is the potency and type of energy something is. Energetic vibrancy is the quality of a particular frequency.

Anything can be built or printed into our first overlay automatic robotic systems. This depends on what we have built connections to and how deep our understanding is of those connections. This knowledge (which comes from the third overlay in essence) will inform our second overlay (skill and choice) of how (skill) and when (choice) to use these connections.

Starting at 19:44 in the video, the spirit of the 1976 movie Rocky is mentioned. -kinds of technology, mustering of will, challenges, life can be tough which can feel like it is all on manual second overlay (as opposed to being on automatic first overlay). Listen to this section again all the way to the last sentence which is: “But having some knowledge about The Living Overlay System just might help.” With greater understanding of how something works, we can see more of a fuller picture of it and where things went wrong or right.(Detecting the direction something is taking earlier rather than later).

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Bolter Offerings Schedule for the week of 7/4 - 7/8/22

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are enjoying the extended weekend and the significance of July 4th.

Here is This Week's Schedule of Bolter Offerings (and How To Sign Up):

7/4 - Musical Meditations Monday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:
Free-will donation of your choice is appreciated but not required. But you need to text or email me that you plan on coming to get a link.

7/6 - Warm-Up Wednesday on Zoom 10-11am EDT:
$5 donation is required for all attendees.

7/7 FBSMC 14 new YouTube video and blog post
(you will get a notification with the links when it is posted).

7/8 - Fundamentals Friday on Zoom
Note: DIFFERENT TIME THIS WEEK ONLY, 10am-11am EDT
(vs usual 11am-12pm time).
$7.50 donation is required for all atendees.
TOPIC: Slurs and Flexibility (bring your horns)

HOW TO SIGN UP:

(Note especially #5)

1. To pay/donate, please go to:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter

(Please COPY and PASTE LINK if needed).  

2. You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)

3. Click "SEND" option

4. Enter AMOUNT [based on which session(s) you are attending and the fee schedule above]

5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g., Musical Meditation Monday or Warm-Up Wednesday or FBSMC 14 or more than one)

6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because your are not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)

7. COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure you transaction goes through)

8. You will receive a ZOOM LINK WITHIN 24 HOURS. If you do NOT receive the link, check that you completed the transaction. If you did complete the transaction, please email me (normtobe at gmail dot com) so I can send you link directly.

Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested in attending any or all of these sessions.

NOTE ALSO: Please have your donation in by the end of the evening the day before your session begins. If you are late, please have your donation in no later than one hour before the beginning of the session and email me at normtobe at gmail dot com or text me 617-759-1620 no later than a half hour before the session begins.  Only those that have sent in the donation will get a Zoom link.

Hope to see you soon at a session you choose!