REMINDER: FBSMC 15 Zoom Session 1 this Friday 6/2/23

Hello everyone!

Hope all is well. This a reminder about Frequency Bone Summer Music Connection 15- "Summer Studio Class" with the theme: "Spontaneity Within A Plan."

THE FIRST ZOOM SESSION WILL BE this Friday JUNE 2nd at 6pm EDT.

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FBSMC 15 will consist of and include:

-Weekly videos uploaded to YouTube

-Zoom sessions

-Companion notes, music and/or exercises emailed to Zoom sessions participants*-

FBSMC 15 Zoom Sessions requires a minimum donation of $10. If this is a problem, please let me know.

*-FBSMC 15 companion notes, music and/or exercises for each Zoom session are available and will be emailed to the participants for an extra $5 donation. This would make the donation $15. That's getting a bang out of your buck! 🎇

If you are planning to attend a FBSMC 15 session, please email me at normtobe@gmail.com so I can send you a Zoom Invitation once I see you donated for the session. If you do not receive an invitation within a 24 hour window after donating, please get in touch with me ASAP by email or by text at 617-759-1620 no later than 1 hour before the session.

***BONUS- For those who attend at least 2 sessions of either TACraft or FBSMC 15, (it can be one of each) I am offering an 1 hour private session with me for $90. If a person attends 4 sessions they can have another session with me for $90. So, for every 2 sessions you get a $90 private session with me. Which is pretty good considering my regular fee is $200+. a savings of $110+ ⚛

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I hope to see some of you online this summer in a TACraft and/or a FBSMC 15 session. We will always be playing so please bring your horns. A journey of discovery it surely will be!

Please feel free to share this email with others you may know!

Here are the donation directions:

*IMPORTANT NOTE

BEFORE DONATING, MAKE SURE TO PLEASE READ THE DIRECTIONS BELOW IT SO IT IS DONE CORRECTLY. THANKS IN ADVANCE!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: Anew Each Day is an optional (not a prerequisite)  free will donation of any amount

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. Train Atheltic Craft, Private Lesson, FBSMC 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 your transaction goes through)

FBSMC 15- Important date change and payment procedure Zoom Session 1, 6/2/23

Hello everyone! This post contains 2 important updates!

*Frequency Bone Summer Music Connection 15- Yes, this is year 15 of FBSMC and this year it is called “Summer Studio Class” with the theme “Spontaneity Within A Plan.” FBSMC 15 will consist of and include:

-Weekly videos uploaded to YouTube

-Zoom sessions

-EXTRAS! Companion notes, music and/or exercises emailed  to Zoom session participants*-

UPDATE THE FIRST ZOOM SESSION WILL BE JUNE 2nd at 6pm EDT. This is changed from May 25th.

>FBSMC 15 Zoom Sessions requires a minimum donation of $10. If this is a problem, please let me know.

UPDATE If you are planning to attend a FBSMC 15 session, please email me at normtobe at gmail dot com so I can send you a Zoom Invitation once I see you donated for the session. If you do not receive an invitation within a 24 hour window after donating, please get in touch with me ASAP by email or by text at 617-759-1620 no later than 1 hour before the session. Thanks inadvance!

*-FBSMC 15 -companion notes, music and/or exercises for each  Zoom session are available and will be emailed  to the participants for an extra $5 donation. This would make the donation $15. That's getting a bang out of your buck!

***BONUS- For those who attend at least 2 sessions of either TACraft or FBSMC 15, (it can be one of each) I am offering an 1 hour private session with me for $90. If a person attends 4 sessions they can have another session with me for $90. So, for every 2 sessions you get a $90 private session with me.Which is pretty good considering my regular fee is $200+. A savings of $110+

I hope to see some of you online this summer in a TACraft and/or a FBSMC 15 session. We will always be playing so please bring your horns.A journey of discovery it surely will be!

 

Norman

Bolter Offerings now and for Summer 2023- plus Zoom Invitation "What About Excerpts?"

Greetings everyone!

Hope this email finds you all in good health and spirits. This email will consist of some current goings on and some coming up. Perhaps there will be something for you that will catch your interest. This email also includes a Zoom lInvitation and donation instructions.

*Train Athletic Craft, session 3, will be on zoom this coming Saturday 5/20/23 at 11am EDT. Yes, this is another acronym for TAC! Those who have participated in my TAC offerings starting in 2021 are well aware there are many acronyms for TAC. Originally TAC stands for The Amazing Club. It is not a closed club but is open to all who feel compelled "To bravely go where few have gone before!" :-) It's amazing because there are those that actually want to do it! A free will donation of your choice is suggested for TACraft sessions.

-Session 3 is called "What About Excerpts?" Train Athletic Craft Video 3 (here is the link: https://youtu.be/Xdl96GfNYs8 ) is uploaded to YouTube and describes some of what we will be getting up to on Saturday. The companion notes are located on the Frequency Bone blog here http://frequencybone.blogspot.com/2023/05/companion-notes-to-train-athletic-craft.html. This is an important Zoom session for those who are feeling in a rut with excerpts and the excerpts are sounding tired or perhaps, shall we say, uninspired. The excerpts are parts of incredible music! They are not technical exercises. I'm hoping this session will reconnect the meaning of them through making them mean something personally to you that is still connected to the spirit of the music. My hope in this session is that we can take our Trombone Arban Consciousness and integrate it with our developing Transmitting Art Consciousness! Hmmm.. new TAC acronyms.. The Zoom Invitation is located at the end of this email.

*Frequency Bone Summer Music Connection 15. Yes, this is year 15 of FBSMC and this year it is called "Summer Studio Class" with the theme "Spontaneity Within A Plan." FBSMC 15 will consist of:

-Weekly videos will be uploaded to YouTube and Zoom Sessions

-The first Zoom Session will be JUNE 2nd at 6pm EDT. Stay tuned! For more updated instructions go to the May 22nd post.

-FBSMC 15 requires a donation of $10.

UPDATE If you are planning to attend a FBSMC 15 session, please email me at normtobe at gmail dot com so I can send you a Zoom Invitation once I see you donated for the session. If you do not receive an invitation within a 24 hour window after donating, please get in touch with me ASAP by email or by text at 617-759-1620 no later than 1 hour before the session. Thanks inadvance!

***Bonus- For those who attend at least two sessions of either TACraft or FBSMC 15, (it can be one of each) I am offering a 1 hour private session with me for $90. If a person attends 4 sessions they can have another session with me for $90. So, for every 2 sessions you get a $90 private session with me. Not bad! :-)

I hope to see some of you online this summer in a TACraft and/or a FBSMC 15 session. We will always be playing so please bring your horns. A journey of discovery it surely will be!

Norman

*IMPORTANT NOTE

BEFORE DONATING, MAKE SURE TO PLEASE READ THE DIRECTIONS BELOW IT SO IT IS DONE CORRECTLY. THANKS IN ADVANCE!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: Anew Each Day is an optional (not a prerequisite)  free will donation of any amount

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. Train Atheltic Craft, Private Lesson, FBSMC 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 your transaction goes through)

8. Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested

Zoom Invitation

Norman Bolter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Train Athletic Craft session 3

Time: May 20, 2023 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting

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Companion Notes to "Train Athletic Craft" video 3, "What About Excerpts?"

Orchestral excerpts have gone down an interesting path. For those that are taking auditions at the professional level or entry into a music school as a student, they represent rejection or acceptance. This is a job-application attitude which then focuses the approach to these short sound bites, in my view, to the equivalent of looking at taxidermy- dead stuffed animals or butterflies under glass.  In other words , something NOT ALIVE!

The preoccupation of making everything sound "mistake free" and spotless shows that the regular "cattle call" auditions are far away from offering an environment that encourages the best out of the player. But that makes sense from the level of looking at the profession itself. Since the virtual reality age where many times we find ourselves reflected by mechanical devices such as very sophisticated tuners, metronomes, videos and all what we see on a computer, we can start to lose touch with the more personal meaning of ourselves being in service to the SPIRIT of the music. But instead, being preoccupied not to mess up.

There is NO substitute for building a real relationship with the music and your instrument's role in the piece. How can a great actor and actress play their role in a [play or movie without knowing the whole story? I'm saying something different than knowing every theoretical aspect of the piece. Without having a feeling, emotion, mental imagery or story, how is it going to sound like anything beyond excellent technique with a planned set of how phrasing should go? Technique + Music = Art.

Ask yourself: "What am I saying in this excerpt?" "What am I communicating?" "What  atmosphere is being created?' Then ask about the how, where, when and what that you will need to make it happen. Make the excerpts ALIVE!

Train Athletic Craft Session 2, 5/6/23 11am EDT Zoom invite included!

Hello Everyone!

We will have our second session Train Athletic Craft on this coming Saturday 5/6/23 at 11am EDT. Yes, this is another acronym for TAC! Those who have participated in my TAC offerings starting in 2021 are well aware there are many acronyms for TAC. Originally TAC stands for The Amazing Club. It is not a closed club but is open to all who feel compelled "To bravely go where few have gone before!" :-)

*In session 2, we will look at the "Hand Sculptor(ing) technique that I've shown and described a bit in Video 2 (https://youtu.be/jk2uReF1o6s) and on my Instagram @nbolt2. This is meant to show that the field of techniques is infinite and it only needs us To Activate Creativity and hopefully some of my process will Trigger Authentic Connections that are already in you, (even if latently), To Activate Continually!

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Train Athletic Craft is another way of looking at the first overlay called Robotic Automatic Systems of the Overlay System. This system consists of three main overlays. Lots written and spoken on these overlays already. The Overlay System will naturally appear in these TAC sessions, including, of course, the other two overlays of Skill and Choice (second overlay) & Integration and Art (third overlay). They will all start to resonate and play a vitally active part in these sessions.

In these sessions, we will also be warming-up together and looking at the fundamentals in a variety of ways which you are invited to apply in your own privte practice time. Which leads us into how this acronym of TAC came about! It was seeing that in all performing arts, there is the practical aspect of training the athletic (mind-body-coordination) part of ourselves to develop skills and those skills to build a craft for a specific purpose, i.e. brass playing, playing any musical instrument, dance of any kind, acting, theater, figure skating etc.

Zoom Inviation will be included at the bottom of the donation instructions.

Free will donation of your choice is suggested for these sessions. If this is not possible, please feel free to join anyway.

Looking forwward to training our athletic craft together!

*IMPORTANT NOTE

BEFORE DONATING, MAKE SURE TO PLEASE READ THE DIRECTIONS BELOW IT SO IT IS DONE CORRECTLY. THANKS IN ADVANCE!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: Anew Each Day is an optional (not a prerequisite)  free will donation of any amount

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. Train Atheltic Craft, Private Lesson, FBSMC 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 your transaction goes through)

8. Feel free to SHARE THIS INFORMATION with anyone who might be interested

Zoom Invitation

Norman Bolter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Train Athletic Craft session 2

Time: May 6, 2023 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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