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

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Norman Bolter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Train Athletic Craft session 3

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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

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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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Companion Notes to Train Athletic Craft Video 2

The human being is always building connections and relationships. Not all of these are intentional but form out of repetitive thoughts and actions in our everyday lives. Our intentional focus on deep points of personal interest create equally strong connections and relationships. Some examples are, chosen career paths, marriage, sincere beliefs that turn into principles and form the foundations of our ethics, the list can go on and on.

True Actual Choice is a very powerful TAC acronym. Do we have actual genuine choices? Where does it come from? Where do our choices lead us? For instance, as you can see from the video I've come up with a "hand sculpture" technique that helps inform my embouchure shape. When you have built a living relationship with something, techniques, revelations, endless ideas, ways and means will come to you. This can lead to having many options- an abundance of choices will be right in front of you! The True Actual Choice part will express itself because you built a lving relationship with something. It is not stagnant and stuck in one way only except the way of where the natural laws lead you.

This way of going on for me has led organically into personal science where a person uses their experiences as empirical evidence. Because I have been teaching and working with people for over 5 decades, I have collected a huge amount of empirical evidence from trying things with other people of all ages. I love confirmation and the surprises of when things don't work and when they don't seem like they should work! This brings about an attachment to living truth rather than being bound and adhereing to concepts only coming from a personal viewpoint.

Love the journey and process of being IN the living Art, for it goes beyond product preoccupation into the ever expanding nature of life and the Everlasting origin that it arises from.

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New Bolter Offering on Zoom starting 4/22/23 "Train Athletic Craft," plus link to video and Zoom Invitation

Hello Everyone!

This is to inform you that on Saturday 4/22/23 at 11am EDT, to be held on Zoom, I will be starting a new video series called: Train Athletic Craft. 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 these sessions, we will be warming-up together and looking at the fundamentals in a variety of ways. In fact, how this acronym of TAC came about, 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.

This is another angle of the first overlay called Robotic Automatic Systems of the Overlay System consisting 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.

We will have an element of fun (damentals) in our time together for sure. It will also open up doors To Activate Creativity in our own private practice time as well!

Here is the YouTube link to the Introductory video of this series:

https://youtu.be/s0zhKjoYxZo

Zoom Inviation will be included at the bottom of this post.

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

*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

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Norman Bolter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Train Athletic Craft 1

Time: Apr 22, 2023 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Bolter: FBMCWE New YouTube Video, Premiere of Times Of Changing Timbres

Hi Everyone,

I premiered a piece yesterday at a BOCO studio trombone recital. I had planned to make a YouTube video in my own setting soon afterwards. The soon after was tonight, 2/19/23.

Dr. V and I have learned many years ago that not every piece can be played in all environments. I'm glad I played it yesterday at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and then to follow up in my own private setting tonight. As you watch the video, you will see that I talk about the piece and give some views of my own personal experience of the times we now find ourselves in plus my own need to express in a multitude of timbres.

With such an emphasis on consistency and evenness of tone throughout the registers for orchestral auditions, there really is not an emphasis for color change beyond dynamic contrasts, mutes changes and equipment changes. That can be a lot of change. But it is not as dramatic a change as string players are asked to do.

Timbre cannot exist without rhythm and or pitch. Timbre is the chamber (made of material and shape) of resonance for rhythm and pitch to appear. (But what creates timbre besides rhythm and pitch?!). In fact, the deeper we look into these three, (three being a cosmic law and spiritual number i.e. trinity), the One appears as three. Rhythm, pitch and timbre cannot exist independently. You can see each one, but they cannot exist without each other.

THINK ABOUT IT. IT WILL OPEN UP THE UNIVERSE. But, that is not the main reason for looking into it...