A-based Dontae Winslow is a composer, songwriter and music producer whose long list of collaborations make him one of the most sought after people in the music industry. My best friend in school said to play the trumpet, and I found out it was one of the hardest instruments to play!
It is so physically demanding, so unforgiving. You have to practice the trumpet everyday. You take 2 or 3 days off and you literally start sucking at it, you have to be married to it. So in that way, the trumpet teaches you to be humble, because to be arrogant, the instrument will kick your ass any day of the week.
You cannot force it. You have to coerce it and coax it into working. You have to be tenacious and persistent. You have to warm it up everyday. Anytime you meet an old trumpet player, or ex-players while traveling they all say they used to play trumpet!
Nobody can sample the variations of the attacks and the frequency overtones because the lip vibrations vary and the air fluctuates constantly.
The trumpet embodies everything that I feel I am as a person. I play the trumpet not just for musical reasons, but for spiritual reasons. I would put out my own record on my own independent label since I would sell them out of the trunk of my car like the rappers, except with jazz records.
