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...no...not really...
It's just all the basics...done just as they should be done...
...and the people behind that screen WANT you to play well.
They're NOT listening for errors; they ARE listening for excellence.
Dave spent a couple nights here at blokeplace when my daughter was married, and a year or two later (when he was still third horn in Fort Worth...before being principal in Dallas, Berlin, and Chicago).
The second time he was here, he pitched a tent on the spillway of the big pond. I suggested that might be ill-advised. It poured down rain that night, and (yes) the pond was already full. (I'm sure he would verify.)
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windshieldbug (Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:19 pm) • Ace (Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:26 pm)
Fascinating that in the second excerpt he plays the concert middle C on the Bb side, very likely to make the fingering work better going to the G below. Not being within screaming distance of his ballpark and never was, I do the same type of thing.
My other observation is that you can SEE him "blowing the pitches up" as he ascends through the first excerpt -- something NO teacher ever explained to me, and which I FINALLY figured out in the recent past in my continuing quest to overcome dystonia. Just watching him is considerably more instructive than any paid instruction I ever got, from quite a number of teachers on different brasses. One of my pet rants is about instruction in general but I will hold it in this time.
