I don’t know what happens sometimes. It has been about 3-1/2 weeks since I practiced and now I’m struggling again. Technique suffers the most and the fastest. Embouchure is okay, but I still feel weakness. However, this didn’t keep me from recording and posting on Youtube.
The video above is a demo of a mouthpiece I bought a few weeks ago; the Vandoren Jumbo Java. I’m not sure I like it. It sounds okay I guess, but it feels so rough on the embouchure. It actually hurts somehow. It’s hard to explain. In the end I do like it and could use it in a pinch if I had to.
I was a music major in college.
Spent 20 years in the Navy Music Program.
I am now living in South Carolina.
My struggles are with my weight, loneliness, and a lack of motivation to do anything about either. I still love music. I just don't have the drive I had in my 20's to chase after it anymore.
I don't know what's left in this life for me. I have no desire or ambitions toward achieving anything. Is that a lack of will to live? I don't know. Here I am though. And I will be here until things are different I guess. I'm tired.
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