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Little Muscles Causing Big Problems
There are so many essential little muscles hidden away controlling our posture and defining our self-concept, we’re usually not aware of them until something goes wrong.
Creatures of Habit
Every body has different habits, strengths and weaknesses, and different histories of fitness and muscle tone. Many people never completely learn how to walk, stand, or sit (learn more at corewalking.com) or find their ability to do any of those with optimum posture compromised by lifelong deficiencies or increasingly poor muscle tone. Careers of sedentary work or repetitive stress (such as playing a musical instrument) inevitably create problems with these muscles over time, unless the (potential) sufferer creates a therapeutic regimen of stretching and exercise to rebalance the muscles.
Muscle Problems!
These diabolical little muscles may be weak or tight, creating postural imbalance and nerve impingement, causing sciatica, low back pain, frozen shoulder or rotator cuff problems. They’re hard to isolate. It takes specific knowledge, self-education, research, and particular (sometimes odd or unexpected) stretches and exercises to remedy the situation.
Chronic pain from these sources can be eliminated. It can take some time to rehabilitate and strengthen the muscles, but it can be done. Too often in current medical practice these autonomously remediable problems are treated with prescription pain killers, leading to major side effects including addiction, ruination and death.
Curing Chronic Pain
Exercise is the solution that works, creating hugely beneficial side effects such as improved vitality, health, and youthfulness. A thorough program of physical rehabilitation including some yoga or tai chi, or stretching, aerobic and anaerobic (resistance) training, can make you feel and look 20-40 years younger and cure your chronic pain.
Exercising can fail to help without mindful improvement of technique. Proper technique results from proper posture during exercise. If lifelong habits have created distortions and imbalance in posture (likely to be an issue when beginning a program of rehabilitative exercise), persistent focus on proper posture and technique in exercise is essential for the formation of new habits, strengthening muscles long neglected. The body will go through changes and new sensations as lifelong habits are changed. The process can be uncomfortable in the beginning.
If you exercise without changing your approach to your physicality and correcting your postural deficiencies, you may fail to progress in healing your imbalance and reducing chronic pain, eventually (possibly) injuring yourself or giving up.
If you can visualize yourself as a more erect, stronger, more flexible, pain-free person with a more attractive bearing and physique while believing that the work you’re doing will get you there, you will succeed. With this belief in your ability to heal and rehabilitate with the means at your disposal, you will be able to summon the courage, determination and persistence required to persevere through the change or recovery process.
Some of the little muscles that can cause big problems are:
Pelvic Girdle
Tsoas
Iliacus
Piriformis
Quadratus
Shoulder
Teres Minor
Subscapularis
Supraspinatus,
Infraspinatus
Googling the above muscles with the term “stretch for ______” or “strengthening ________” gives practical, useful search results leading to diagrams, videos, how-to’s and other useful resources.
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How do we handle copyright issues at Arranger for Hire? We are a bespoke exclusive custom arranging service. We observe copyright law. We are not “publishers” – we do not resell any arrangement we write for a client, and we respect a client’s desire for exclusive use of an arrangement we create; we don’t have a “catalog.” Also, we don’t put copyrighted material on our website without license or…
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Are you looking for music backing tracks? We can create backing tracks here at Arrangerforhire.com, although we’re not fans of their use in performance. If a client wants a track for their own entertainment for use in their home, we’re happy to help. We understand the desire for tracks by people trying to make a living by playing in subways, parks, malls, and street corners – but we will not…
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Orchestral Arranging Case Study
Orchestral Arranging Case Study
Composer Mark Lucas sent a recording to us, wanting to hear it arranged for orchestra. The song, sung rubato in wordless melody over strummed guitar accompaniment, showed terrific pitch and heartfelt emotion. It’s a work of passion, as you can hear: http://arrangerforhire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lament-Mark-short.mp3 Because of the rubato nature of the performance, the intended rhythm was…
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Learn to Run | Improve Metabolism
Dieting is a Mistake !
“Losing weight” is an unhealthy goal to pursue. Using a weight scale as your measure of progress usually leads to muscle loss with fat loss, causing serious damage to your metabolism. Metabolism has to be healthy to maintain healthy weight, and adequate muscle mass is crucial. Conventional weight-metric calorie-counting dieting causes muscle loss, damaging your ability to maintain a healthy weight while making it more difficult to lose weight in the future.
A more sensible goal is:
Fat Reduction with Muscle Gain
Lose inches and body fat percentage
Increase exercise and fat loss capacity while improving metabolism
This summer I’ve lost 4 inches of belly fat off my waist with only a slight change in my weight. I’m not “converting fat to muscle,” but I am burning dangerous belly fat (organ fat, also known as thoracic fat – deposits around the heart, lungs, liver, etc) while building lean muscle tissue. Organ fat responds very well to aerobic exercise. Running is a great way to reduce or eliminate organ fat. If you haven’t been a runner, you may prefer to spend some months walking, work your way into it gradually. Develop a training protocol. Begin to inject running short distances into your walk. Increase distance and time spent, incrementally, until you’re able to walk or run for at least an hour. You’ll find that you’ll meet and exceed your prior training goals more easily as time progresses – if you stick with it.
Training is not necessarily comfortable, but it’s so well worth it that persistence and determination are very valuable to your process.
The fact is, as you train to increase time or distance, you’ll find a number of interesting things happen:
Your appetite will decrease on the days you work out.
Your body will derive energy from your stored fat for many hours after a workout
Your skin will improve
You’ll sleep better
You will lose organ fat, visibly.
You’ll crave different foods if you’re eating properly.
You’ll get rid of most types of chronic pain (knee, back, shoulder, hip)
Your blood pressure will decrease
Your blood sugar numbers will improve, and you will become able to discontinue type II diabetes medication.
Thinking
Negative thinking – “I can’t do this” can actually prevent you from succeeding, or even starting to run. Thinking at all should be avoided – concentrate instead on sensory phenomena such as breathing and footfall while working on your form and technique.
Snap judgments are toxic. Don’t look in the mirror, lose patience and give up. Don’t judge others you see working out.. you’re seeing a snapshot of their life, not their whole life story – they are not demonstrations of the futility of exercise – they’re making an effort to improve themselves, as you are.
Use constructive self-talk while running, “I can do this, I am doing this, I will do this, it’s a good thing I’m doing this.”
Become “a person who exercises.” Identify with it.
Get into a state of “person running” while you’re running. Make being in that state the objective.
Suspend self-judgment and moderate expectations.
Don’t expect to see results every day.
When you do see results or get a surprised compliment from a friend, soak it up. You’ve earned it.
Mindfulness
Develop “mindfulness” while running. Monitoring signals from your body while maintaining form takes concentration. Body awareness can prevent injury and increase control over your technique and posture. “Listen to your body” is a common phrase to describe this, although it’s always sounded odd – my body’s not “talking” to me 🙂 “Insight” is another possible word, but what we’re really looking for is something like “in-feel” – (“feel-in?” “feeling?”). Feeling your body from the inside, keeping track of sensations, taking an inventory of your muscles and motion, all help develop good habits while running.
After you get feeling more comfortable at your training level, your mind can be free to think, and it can be very creative. Generally speaking, though, thinking is the enemy – it inhibits mindful awareness of sensory phenomena that you need to improve technique and monitor your body signals to prevent injury.
Habit formation
“Just do it” is an effective slogan for a reason. It’s an attitude of unquestioning determination. Shoot for daily workouts, or, at least three times a week. Some days you need to take off for recovery in training. It’s not only OK, it’s an essential part of training – just remember to start again after your break day(s). Remember that your main goal is to increase your capacity to do it.
Nutrition
Macronutrient balance requirements change when you’re exercising. If your workout is intense, you’re burning muscle glycogen (glucose stores). If your muscles are getting really tired, you need to add carbs to your diet.
Protein intake is vital to prevent muscle breakdown from long aerobic workouts.
Eating proper nutrients at the proper time is essential.
Before Running
Working out in a fasting state is optimal for weight loss, first thing before breakfast if possible. Although the fasting state is the most ideal for weight loss, it carries the most risk for muscle breakdown. A fasting-state supplement such as HMB, taken before workout, might protect muscles from excessive breakdown. Early onset of exhaustion occurs if your muscle glycogen stores are depleted – be sure to add carbs to your recovery drink after workout. If you don’t want to “run on an empty tank,” a bowl of fruit before running can also be helpful in metabolic processes. Grapefruit is effective helping jump-start fat burning, and is itself burned early in the run.
Recovery Smoothie recipe with nutrition data
Recovery
The recovery meal is the most important of the day. A protein smoothie is ideal, especially with maintenance supplements and probiotics added to it. If you’re “running out of gas” on the run, it might be good to add some carbs to the smoothie as well. Your muscles need glucose – it’s a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that goes directly into cells for energy, while also synthesized into glycogen, the first resource for muscle power. If your glycogen stores get too low, you’re going to feel like you’ve got the flu when you’re running. Your daily protein requirement is going to be higher when you’re training or running. Women require 60-90 grams, men 70-110. One scoop of protein powder in a smoothie is 22 grams. After workout, a good dose of protein prevents further muscle breakdown. Distribute the rest of your requirement as you wish for the remainder of the day.
The Remainder of the Day
You’ll probably find you won’t be eating as much as you used to. What do you feel like eating? If you get a craving for meat, eat some. High-water-content foods (fruits and vegetables) and high-fiber foods are essential for health, and you can eat them unlimited. If you’ve reserved the remainder of your protein requirement, find something really tasty and enjoyable. You might find yourself avoiding junk. As hard as you’re working for results, you’ll be making better choices.
How to Train
Increase your level of challenge incrementally – time, distance, speed, any or all the above.
Approach the point of failure or exhaustion
Rest in between. Run 2-5 days, rest 1-3 days.
Get adequate sleep
Be consistent in nutritional practices.
Start slow.
Incorporate higher-challenge intervals in your routine.
When it becomes too uncomfortable, slow down, and just listen as you continue at an easy pace.
Breathe, listen, feel.
Monitor your technique.
Back and Knee Pain
Many people suffer from knee or back pain, using it as their reason not to exercise. This poor choice leads to voluntary suffering, self-imposed disability, and early death. It can take awhile, but running can cure chronic pain.
The fact is, most knee and back pain originates from postural imbalance in muscle pairs, and responds very well to training, which eventually restores posture by rebalancing the muscles. If one muscle in a pair is weak, stiff, or tight, it can cause the joint to go out of alignment, causing dysfunction in other muscles around it, which tend to work in systems around a joint. The pain of postural imbalance is different than injury pain. It’s chronic and dull – and, as the muscles begin to rebalance and the pain lessen, it can have a peculiar deep itching sensation, which is a sign of recovery for that muscle pair.
Pelvic core muscles will likely be problematic for people with sedentary occupations. The Tsoas, Iliacus, and especially the Piriformis are relatively small muscles that control the characteristics of gait while running, as well as the pelvic angle in posture. The so-called “Donald Duck” posture of butt out, belly hanging is common, and can result in weakness in this system. These muscles are painful if they’re out of balance, but running can cure both the pain and the imbalance, and new posture can be learned mindfully by challenging these muscles – particularly the Iliacus, which crosses the top of the hip at the pelvis.
All of these will need to be strengthened to restore balance and improve running form. Stretches are great for these at the end of the run, and may be necessary to repeat frequently throughout the day as these muscles strengthen and rebalance. Lifelong habits of bad posture will be improved or corrected. Find stretches for these muscles
Tsoas
liacus
Piriformis
Good Running Technique
Good running technique is worth aspiring for, but it might not come naturally, since most people have postural imbalances of one kind or another. Even long-term athletes can have bad habits and posture. Good technique is earned through training, corrective action and continued mindfulness. Changing an element of technique might require a restart of the training cycle, as (for example) smaller weak muscles are engaged in the running process, becoming inflamed and painful, needing extra attention in the form of stretching and supplemental resistance training. Checklist for running technique
Feet straight ahead
Footfall is a rolling motion from back to front
Footfall is under the body
Foot reach is behind the body, not forward
Keep soft toes except for speed bursts
Knees are relatively close together
Leg path is straight forward and straight back
Hips and shoulders rotate slightly in opposing directions while also turning in small, opposite figure-8’s (up and down slightly while rotating from side to side)
Shoulders are back, shoulder blades pulled together, back and downward slightly
Elbows are up and slightly behind, exerting contrary motion lifting the opposite knee
Hip rotation helps lift the knees and increase the size of the circle the feet travel through
Opposite hip and shoulder rotation engage the abs and obliques, working core muscles
Everything is moving in circles, big and small
After all this is working consistently, tilting forward slightly and reaching back with the feet and legs will increase speed and create the sensation of flying.
Finally
Running is so rewarding, and contributes to improved health and longevity in so many ways, that it’s well worth adopting as a hobby, or discipline, or routine. It’s so much better to start running when you can, rather than when you have to (under doctor’s orders, for example). I would never want to face a day of diagnosis that could have been avoided “if only I’d taken better care of myself.” As long as you can walk, it’s not too late to start. Do it before it’s too late, before you can’t walk any more. Don’t miss the last train to wellness.
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The Metabolism of Fat in Aerobic Exercise
Fruit, running and the House Money
There’s fat in sweat. Fat liberated from the cells by aerobic exercise is used as fuel *and* eliminated through the skin as a component of sweat.
There’s also fat in feces. Flavonoids in fruit increase the fat content of poop.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16427799)
Caloric theory that says you’ll burn 500 calories in 45 minutes of running, creating a daily caloric intake deficit that over time will lead to loss of pounds of fat.
https://www.verywell.com/how-many-calories-does-running-burn-2911108
If you’re relying on this math, you’ve probably already given up.
The Good News
Fat Liberation
Caloric theory ignores the metabolic reality of fat liberation and elimination. The math is correct in terms of energy consumption only, but wrong in terms of weight loss and fat loss.
Aerobic exercise has a greater, cascading effect on fat than just energy use.
As you continue to exercise in a particular session, your stomach contents (fruit, ideally) is consumed, and the body starts liberating fat into your bloodstream. When this happens, it’s like you’re regained your initial stake at the gaming table and you’ve started playing with the “house money.” You’re winning. You’re getting rid of deadly visceral (or “organ”) fat.
Fruit helps in the fat liberation process. Flavonoids and citrus oil act as solvents on body fat, helping open fat cells and release lipids into the bloodstream, where they reduce appetite, increase available energy, elevate mood, and are consumed as energy. Excess fat in the blood is either used, eliminated through the skin and bowels, or stored again.
Aerobic exercise is most effective when you prevent the last thing from happening. You don’t want your liberated fat to go back into your fat cells.
If you eat sugar or drink alcohol, it will. Immediately. Sugar (or alcohol, which metabolizes quickly to sugar) becomes the most available immediate energy source given priority in use by the body. The fat in the bloodstream is instantly redundant, and is stored again.
So much for the metabolic benefits of your aerobic workout! You’ve just lost at least half of the benefit. Your fat loss stops immediately.
If you let the fat stay in your bloodstream, fat loss will continue for many hours after the workout.
Protein is the best thing to consume after a workout. Your muscles need recovery and rebuilding fuel, and your blood sugar needs to stabilize. An unsweetened protein drink, or nuts, or eggs, fish, meat, or cheese will help your recovery.
Fruit, given its water and fiber content, doesn’t count as “sugar,” even though it might be sweet – but the best time to eat it is before the workout. Its high water content keeps you hydrated, and the flavonoids and citrus oils open your fat cells.
Sticking with proteins and vegetables after a workout will seal the deal. Your body will get what it needs to recover while you get the most out of your workout.
When it comes to aerobic exercise, the longer you stay in the “house money,” the more fat you eliminate. Train for endurance. The ability to run for an hour or more gives you the ability to lose fat at will.
Forget “carbo-loading.” Fruit is better.
Sugar is deadly toxic, especially the government-subsidized high-fructose corn syrup.
https://authoritynutrition.com/4-ways-sugar-makes-you-fat/
You heard right.. the government subsidizes the most deadly ingredient in manufactured food. The pharma companies love them for it!
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How to Play a Great Jazz Solo
Many jazz musicians believe that playing a great solo is a matter of playing melodies that fit over the chords. They learn chordal scales, standard “licks” that fit over them, pentatonics, arpeggios, patterns, etc–and believe that doing this as virtuosically as possible will lead to a successful solo.
This belief comes from the unfortunate fact that this approach to improvisation is widely taught by armies of mediocre teachers, many of them tenured in major, respected institutions of Jazz education, and by uninformed peer guidance.
Although these are essential skills for an improviser (maybe not the “virtuosically” part), that’s only the beginning of the story–and doesn’t begin to touch the work of the true masters. If all you’re doing is the above, you’re playing elementary, bad solos–no matter how complex and virtuosic they may sound.
What makes a great solo?
The great saxophonist Gary Bartz said “I don’t improvise. Everything I play is prepared.”
Apply some forethought and intelligence in the construction of your solo. Use your ability to make a plan and execute it.
Use compositional devices in addition to the basics mentioned above.
These include:
The melody of the song (with further ornamentation)
Development of the melody of the song by expansion of fragments that it contains using various compositional techniques
An alternative melody that fits the harmonic scheme that undergoes compositional development consisting of theme and variation through devices including repetition, sequences, inversion, retrograde, elongation, contraction, etc.
Rhythmic devices and development including the rhythm of the song’s original melody
Each of these techniques deserves volumes of illustration and explanation–and I’m not going to do that here. The point of this article is to raise awareness–to point in the direction of better soloing. Information is available elsewhere for each of these topics.
Core Principles of Composition
It’s important to focus on some core principles of composition.
Repetition breeds recognition
Recognition breeds memorability.
A good melody teaches itself to the listener. Listeners feel the reappearance of familiar material like the return of an old friend.
Development builds on familiarity
When a player is ignorant of–or without respect for–these principles, the listener is subjected to a seemingly endless stream of relatively agreeable randomness, which quickly begins to sound all the same. Musicians who don’t consider compositional principles play essentially the same solo on every tune, and are boring and tedious to listen to. Musicians who are aware of these principles–and use them–are the true masters, and bring value to every solo they play.
Connection with the audience is a worthwhile goal. Familiarity and a sense of “story” breed connection. Playing for yourself is masturbation.
Awareness and intention are key
Improvement begins with awareness – and honesty. Ask yourself – am I an elementary soloist? What are my objectives in playing a solo? What is my intention? Am I trying to make music, or am I trying to prove my virtuosity?
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Screen Share Support Finale can be complicated and frustrating. Google search will reveal answers many questions, but because of the vast vocabulary of musical and technical terms used in the program, it can be hard to figure out the right question to ask. Watching tutorial videos can be time consuming. If you’re on a deadline or can’t find the answer you’re looking for, timely support is…
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Weight Walking for Musicians - Core Strengthening for endurance and improved performance
Nobody ever told me to do this.
I wish they had, years ago.
As a typical music geek kid, I wasn’t into sports as a youngster, preferring to practice, listen to and play music. Consequently I had poor muscle tone, particularly in my upper body.
I had “grampa bod” at the age of 14.
A massage therapist told me once that my posture was “down into my hips,” and I had no idea what she was talking about – although by my 40’s I had chronic pain in my psoas, quadratus lumborum and iliacus muscles (core muscles connecting the pelvis, spine/low back and legs), especially on the right side, from opposing the arm weight I was putting into the bass.
It became chronic.
In later years, around age 35, I started exercising – jogging, walking, Stairmaster, and (later) an exercise ball. These measures helped somewhat, but my body never really changed. My weight would go up and down, but my upper body muscle tone and posture remained pretty much the same, although it did begin to improve when I started using the yoga ball.
Lately my work has become more sedentary as I’ve become busier writing and arranging music. Playing the bass more at least had me moving around more, schlepping the bass to gigs etc.
Last winter, after a sustained period of sedentary work, I ended up in crisis with my back – the whole system of postural imbalance led to “restless leg syndrome,” chronic acute back pain, and impaired ability to walk. Sciatica? Slipped disc? I didn’t know.
After poking around in my hip, I found the principal sources of pain. My leg muscles, particularly the right side of my right thigh, were incredibly tight. The hip in front of the pelvis bone was a source of constant pain. The thought of losing mobility and becoming disabled motivated me to try to do something about it.
All of the core hip muscles were tight, weak, conflicting with each other, and out of balance. One day, just to try it, I took a pair of eight pound hand weights (I used to use occasionally on the yoga ball) out for a walk. Moving my arms around with the weights in my hands, I found that the weights, when used to oppose the motion of my walk, dug right down into the iliacus, quadratus, and psoas. Hand weights reached down into the core of my hip muscles! How weird! But – there was a distinct sensation that the pain was a good pain, a liberation. Muscles long ignored were being challenged, releasing their stored toxins and tightness, and bringing relief. It felt like a deep itch was being scratched for the first time.
One side effect of the weights was I started to get muscle tone in my upper body for the first time in my life. Upper back and neck issues started to disappear, and I began to gain muscle mass and definition.
The bass has started to feel lighter in my hands, and my muscle memory has become more consistent, improving my intonation. The eight-pound weights are starting to feel light, and I’m planning to move up to ten pounders.
This new habit of taking the weights out on my walk has done more to improve my physical shape, endurance, wellness, posture, confidence, and a million other things, and done it quicker than anything else I’ve tried in my entire life.
I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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Jon Burr Quintet News | CD release Events
“Very Good Year” is out, and up on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby.
We’ve been getting some good press!
Review on axs.com:
“Now we’re talking. Hard bop jazz fans need look no further than this new record, Very Good Year, by the Jon Burr Quintet, coming out on Oct. 10, 2015. Led by a monster bass player, the Quintet is comprised of fearless movers and shakers, New York musicians to the core: Pianist Mike Eckroth, drummer Jerome Jennings, tenor Steven Frieder, and trumpeter Tim Ouimette.
… Together with his Quintet, Burr’s latest invention gives a much-needed punch to the dying art form of hard bop, a style many jazz musicians fear to tread. Burr eats hard bop for lunch, purposely selecting popular covers, standard bearers, and cooking up a hard bop lover’s dream in the selection of 12 songs meant to put on blast full volume.” – By Carol Banks Weber AXS Contributor Aug 10, 2015
Review in Jazz Inside Magazine:
“Jon Burr is a fabulous leader, composer and, especially with this recording, arranger. As a fan one should have a field day listening for all the clever musical signposts and touchstones he includes in each track. This is an enthusiastic project and forward thinking artists like Burr and company are certainly leading the charge.” – By Eric Harabadian, Jazz Inside Magazine, August 2015 issue
And, we have a couple of release events on the schedule for October 2015:
Thursday October 22, Birdland, 6 & 7:30 PM
Birdland Tickets/Very Good Year CD Release 315 West 44th St New York, NY 10036 Call for reservations! $25/$10 min (212) 581-3080
Friday October 23 Union Arts Center
8 PM 2 Union Avenue Sparkill, NY 10976 Online ticketing: http://jonburr.bpt.me $25/$20 advance purchase For telephone reservations call (845) 359-0258
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