The special series of Horn Hangouts continues with Sarah Willis & Stefan Dohr digging into their bags of horn tricks and secrets - with fantastic interaction from horn players watching live from all around the world!
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We’ve got some naughty boys here today I’m welcome Hansen Tim hi everyone good morning it’s just gone 6 a.m. which is great because I love being awake at 6 a.m. so don’t look too close like my eyes are here they look over red in the morning comment saying they were worried about your eyes it’s nothing to do with what happened last night just you just need to my bed nothing at all
I got at least eight hours sleep perfect welcome back what did you do this weekend um actually I think I’m with Tim I haven’t slept that much for years I mean it’s very nice in a way so I’m yeah I’m quite relaxed I’ve tried out a couple of things like for teaching online I was looking at platforms for let’s talk about that later yeah let’s talk about that later because our horn hangout friends they a lot of you have been having lessons online and
Stefan was wondering about what the best ways are that you’ve found to teach online so you can get thinking about that and tell us what you do how it works what you would recommend to all these like me and Stefan to get ourselves set up but we’ve got handsome Tim so we’re actually quite lucky for this is very easy but
I thought like you know if I would teach online what I’ve never actually done and I’ve tried today a bit with my students and it’s like oh not so satisfying but also set for that you find like a charge for listen I can donate part of it to people that don’t have that much not a possibility of this not you know if you know give them do you give like 25-30 percent for everywhere freeze freelancing around there in the world and yeah let’s let’s talk about that later no
I’m not I’m very bad I’m just you’re a good cook that’s what you are I was I was cooking a lot on the weekend what is this look at it’s terrible I might have solution let’s see if we if we meet again so I won’t be there tomorrow but maybe day after tomorrow oh what a great idea we could do a live horn haircut a live ordinal lifetime haircut
Stefan while playing Oh God and all the hair comes it anyway for those of you watching on Facebook welcome right and tell us where you’re watching from we’d love to hear from you we check out all the chats and afterwards and absolutely love to see your comments and but for the really juicy questions do go over to the website
I’m sure someone will post a link to the website right now in the chat because I have the juicy questions here on my iPad people people on there on there oh yeah we’ve got people on Facebook saying they’re for the live haircut very good career it’s 4 a.m. oh my goodness where I am where I am Wow
Anita’s watching for speed Wow Alexandra Connor cling studies Brenda yeah Brenda how is Sebastian your guinea pig how’s he doing today yeah so lots all the best questions come in here I’ll do my best to are Stefan what I can find Wilders the Horn Hangouts going what we don’t get to we will look at and get to add another horn hang out that sound okay to you guys
I would like to start off with the question sir please do tell you that I think it’s my question to ask I’d love to know what what have you been playing today and what’s on your music stand does it change is it different to the other day now today I was quite you know occupied by finding on things yesterday
I was going to imslp and I found Hans Jakob tankful Hong Kong Chateau number two hands yeah tank via te elen G be a double L it’s difficult it’s an F it has a yeah it’s a nice I’d read if you want to see it go for it it’s it’s a nice practice hour you can spend a bit
I loved asking chiffon chiffon it’s a ski when we were doing the test for party on Friday wasn’t that a great party guys that was just an awesome party it was really a but when we were testing and I was saying to them to all our horn superstars I think now I’m gonna ask you you know maybe what are you practicing and
I said to Stefon so what’s on you what’s on your music Stein said my iPad we’ve got to get Stefan back on he was hilarious he was all serious offense Cheers yeah so Tim Tim else what’s on my stand um I said really I played different things today I had a I had to predict a benefit concert on online we played
I played with Daniel hope we played as a train but miles apart it was really weird and for that I played really easy stuff because really I don’t feel very much a shape mozart 3 look at this old copy does any do any of you have such an old copy but it’s almost yellow I mean it looks like your guinea pig like pigs oh it does and then we played a piece from that the velvet valves for their great pieces arranged by colleague of ours from the
Berlin Philharmonic we played the humerus for piano horn and violin but three meters apart everybody that was really weird I remember taking I remember taking that picture off the horn you took that picture you’re right you did that is breaking you step on door took the picture for my CD horn discoveries you took it we were in
I though I didn’t get credits for that I have to get the mob it’s fine I’m sorry it was the photo we were in a Eternity pool in some hotel remember up in the upper Singapore in Singapore we were there for the brass festival and it was pouring with rain you can see by all the the the clouds
I’ve got some great ones of you I could dig those out this was this was just genius that’s right you took that photo oh sorry there’s something else is quite interesting that I was practiced as a Stefan look at these it shoots from the repertoire and they’re done by Steve Becnel who’s a to one of the studio players in in
LA who I met when I was there love going to LA and they are 19 it’s for horn derived from the standard orchestral operatic repertoire and they’re really cool there’s like Beethoven’s fifth symphony a whole attitude about it and then you’ve got you’ve got Capriccio and you’ve got this Madame Butterfly although all the horn bits from Madame
Butterfly they’re just fun to play I was happy to have something new some olives is that is that a picture of Toscanini conducting at her front right I don’t think so could be oh no it’s not that no some dude in a bar looks very nice there yes so that’s all my and I must say today playing live for the first time or playing it was wonderful to play with people again it was a really sterile controlled environment where you know everyone was very safe it was a very safe thing to do but just to play music with other people
I miss it so much really we have to get back to work Stefan I’ve tried I kept a lot yeah the problem I had been of my my earphones in and I tried to listen while I play at the 2nd or 3rd part but there was never long enough so actually I I try to play goofer and what feels and it’s all terrible so
I have to improve on that there’s a wonderful video from Apollo moon yes Toledo our Chile Chilean home play a friend from from Chile from from Chile who plays in the town huh look mister and you and he’s he’s found summer where he’s mirrored himself or something I don’t know it’s on his Facebook page it’s Hillerman he shakes his hand and you know nods to himself afterwards
I’ll show it to it’s hilarious I don’t know what app that is if any of you know what it is if any of you have any acapella tips for us cuz their videos are great and we could try something with the Berlin Philharmonic yeah yes Music Man is one so you can just always click one of us off and then play the part or whatever my baby not that one do you want to try playing something together again oh no maybe not no no no no okay right yeah everyone
Patrick hi welcome again playing playing alone makes for pot before pots is never as fun playing with real humans can’t be beat here here here Salah Assad I see a child from Bologna in Italy Chau Chau doc very nice name horn Ellis here again from Buenos Aires oh my goodness William in Batumi glad that it worked out with the chat oh my goodness
Vicki Shelly Roscoe Sookie everybody’s doing great Andre lipkin really great oh my goodness Dillon and Annie ah I was wrong about Steve being a studio player Steve but not this principal horn of the LA approach shows you how much I know but Apollo thank you for thank you for that Nora is watching and oh gee I hope nori and
Rudy and Michael um they are they run the brass academy alicante in in spain which is a fantastic academy for brother for a brass players old brass right Stefan it’s all brass Ross for Spain and and the Latin America and they you guys do a great job Rudy and nori Bravo we like to support that okay let’s have some horn what do you think yes
I heard that Luke have you found Luke’s question oh you know yeah one of our best friends are boys who has been the principal of the radio strip girl radio symphony for long times living in the athens georgia and has a he’s having a horn studio there with the law students and i thought that you know i think he spread the words to all his students that they will listen to mine so i think there might have been a question about yeah what
Luke Wright you’re questioning again because it’s miles away and I can’t find it I know you’re watching sorry hang out and welcome and Aachen hello I am an angular Stefan I’ve got a great question I’ve got to start off with it’s from but it’s from Mark and Mark says I have a crucial question after playing for about 1 hour
Reynolds studies with the practice mute how many beers should I drink drink to keep my mental health let’s try it out stay right there mister okay I thought you were getting at least at least but not if you’re underage lemonade for you guys there’s something weird on Facebook which is translating what we say I wonder if they they get it right the holders there’s some sort of subtitles on there but you know whatever a
Kristen is watching from Sydney Julie Landsman is here a Julie it’s nice to see you back again that was an amazing party Bernadette from from from Kuhn know Chris from Coen Benedict from Malta I have another question for you it was a really good one it was he wants to know he didn’t want to know it for me he wanted to know it from you does having a beard or a moustache make a difference to playing the horn i daddy didn’t want to know it from me
I actually I’m just trying out now I never I never I was never really big fan of having a lot of hair on my arm arm lifts never was how and how much but I can tell you as a teacher from from a teacher’s point of view it’s really difficult if you have a lot of facial hair you can’t see what’s actually going on so
I actually go if there’s someone coming with a beard to a lesson I take a shaver no no of course not it makes about two controls yeah Fon Patrick tell us what it’s like playing with a beer you have a very impressive beard please tell us I can’t imagine it but you know then I’m very grateful I don’t have a beard asked me in 20 years you know you never know but some yeah oh yeah he says little hairs slide in right okay lovely
Alex doesn’t know because he’s 12 good Alex we’re glad you don’t oh oh here’s a good question Stefan from Heather what do you all eat on the day of performances and when do you eat now this is a really interesting question tells me off remember that that is a question because we were talking about this and then like saying okay some people do a big bowl of pasta the lot of cheese on it before the concept not a big bowl you wouldn’t know you can’t you know
I can’t I can’t Oh buddy that one of the food we always have like especially we have like like a soundcheck rehearsal and a concert there is always bananas in the home cases wherever we go certainly if I buy I always buy the next but for you and fondly you are so Expo one ten bananas and they forget them in the horn box
I just received a message there saying that someone has arranged the first Hong Kong chatter by handset coq10 one for three more for the horn for horn so now I don’t know maybe it’s arrangement I have to I forgot there the this mail is a bit like well maybe it’s just that mentioning the first Hong Kong shuttle but actually they are very nice to play and they are difficult if people knew that your snack was a banana
I think we talked about that on the horn hanger we also posted bananas and all the rest of it she’s ten years old hi caller welcome to the horn hangouts it’s great I think it’s important on a concert day one to not eat too much sugar because that can send you old sends me boo I agree on the bananas sometimes in the film money you get great great pretzels like this really cheese is also good cheese is also good always has a cheese sandwich and all the students eat cheese sandwiches but
I think it’s important in the middle of the day to have a really good meal and that’s not the day to be on a diet is the day of a big concert because I just get shaky and often if I’m feeling it if I tell you stuff and I’m not free to break today did you eat enough yeah that’s right she never asked me that actually you’re never safety that’s why oh okay really interesting here
Stefan Francis says I heard that if you practice low horn your upper register gets better is it true I think sound wise that might absolutely be the case and I think vice versa it’s the same if you practice high your lower chest arms against your low horn playing I say I think it’s more more thing about stability and opening up don’t touch your face if you have more tense and say if you like have the stability in the lower just to keep you like opening up more on the higher just at end we’re gonna play with more tension the launch if you have a better
High register so actually just practice everything yeah I agree so you have to practice your low register you have to practice your high register my job is low horn so I practice high horn more than I I would do because I need to have it you know suddenly a piece comes where you’re unison like Shostakovich symphonies or something you have to play up gonna be flats a knees oh you got a good exercise for
Stefan yeah no I was thinking about you know we had this we have you already had a couple of exercises for hanging and things like this but actually a lot of people never do any exercises for coming in softly and high notes all this is very cold my things like train training these like really delicate camera entrances just to have a little exercise on that and
I you know that’s actually it’s a lit it’s a bit in a couple of parts because I think always you know when you don’t feel comfortable on a note it’s better not to start on that note because then you feel more uncomfortable in the you know it’s getting like a little bit into a loop of not feeling comfortable so what
I actually do or did a lot is coming from the comfortable playing zone [Music] yeah but even hold a bit longer so that your lips really know where they are position like for beads or something but the next step then would be so I have a little break between you keep your embouchure yeah hundreds just asked Andre lip
Kim from London from England he’s just asked what is the secret what are they see and what are the secrets apart from that’s a really good exercise for it but what should we be feeling here after watching others oh yeah just just you have to feel that this this doesn’t get like yeah you need attention the the feeling shouldn’t be that you would have to press very much with the left hand and the amber show on your face to reach these notes because then they are very hard to control encounter the next step actually that is not the last step that we are just beginning
The next step will be [Music] take it away even have a coffee oh it’s hard to hear Stefan are you doing it demon you know I try to play like metal carnal that little break play the same keep keep you know keep the tension for the first times the last time you don’t keep the tension you relax but you remember the tension there strain the tonguing and then do that it’s a bit boring exercise
I have to say yeah but in a way very helpful because your brain always remembers if you have done lot of times that the F or F sharp or G year you go up is there you know the position is there and you can trust the airstream the tonguing and the position of the lips Hector just ask about clearer articulations his takata’s are a little area at the front you could build that into that sort of practice - couldn’t you
I’m sure you could I haven’t thought about it yet but gives me two minutes while I give you two minutes I’m just saying Heidi in New York by the way your tattoos come off now I need to put a need another one I’ll try and put it on it’s sort of crumble I want no not your tattoo
I she sent me a horn hangout temporary but she noticed my flowers finally got flowers again it’s freezing cold here I’m amazed that we even found flowers today but but we did I was today [Music] that is not yours whose is it it was in the horn room is this mine this is my very first poem I fell on it this is mine
I fell on it when I was 9 years old this is mine because I’m on the TV program today I took our but you know our bag in the horn room full of full of interesting horns this one is from Peru if anyone’s watching from Peru thank you for this though the horn players gave me this and walk it up okay what what’s that without you today it was freezing it was free it was in the snow it was yeah it’s really too cold anyway that’s how it sounds
Stefan sworn I’m sorry I didn’t realize it’s it’s that’s why it’s mine yeah little different decoration you know it’s my perfect now you’ve ruined my decoration you talk they can fall down it doesn’t really matter its value that’s okay forget about it hold on anyway say don’t leave back okay um yes staccato air at the front that’s where we were so as the front
I don’t really understand what it means like coming here on the song so maybe it’s not an exact perfect beginning of a note I think that’s probably what he means I think the position in Venice may be to spread I don’t know it sounds for me like yeah there’s not enough tension into the center for us to give the right advice because we need a student in front of us to see what their problem is if it’s a problem that we’re familiar with we can help if it’s not if it’s a new problem then it’s it’s sometimes quite hard to you know that’s why
I found it it’s very difficult to get videos of players and then try to you know get a video and then comment it and try to find solutions why you can’t tries things all with them that’s a bit this is a bit the biggest problem I have the moment on online teaching from videos that I get sent to but yeah it’s possible it’s just not
I warmed up with Andrew Baines Coburn class that well you saw the other day and that’s good fun that’s like but it’s and you can’t really hear what you’re doing know if there’s one more than one play you can’t you anyway it’s fine yeah you can’t really separate that people for those of you who are watching on
Facebook I can see you there’s so many of you thank you for joining in that’s really amazing questions I’m getting here on my iPad via the website we will look at all of the comments later and choose some more questions for the next time but um but you’re still talking about alcohol in the chat lovin someone said don’t eat salted peanuts before a concert that’s very good advice that’s good advice you don’t do that no that’s like little bits and pieces on it no and that ends not
M&Ms please that is also not good all of the peanut butter ones that’s our favorite peanut butter M&Ms oh not mine I like two peanut ones Beth I like the peanut butter you don’t mind the people I bring the peanut butter M&Ms your hand yeah of course they’d all gone but listen um Matilda masculinity Marcus’s daughter hi she’s asked a very good question how often should you practice praying for
Tay in the low register can you hurt your lips because of the vibrations interesting what do you think Stefan I don’t think the vibrations can hurt your lip I think if you do press too much then can hurt but the vibrations itself don’t think so no what do you think so I think it’s really important to play let practice loud in the low register it’s like we were talking about the other day people don’t practice loud because it doesn’t sound good so they don’t like to do it so it doesn’t sound good because they don’t practice it vicious circle it’s really important now but also
Playing controlled not just bad you know there’s so many people that will play we don’t it always needs to be controlled needs to be controlled all the way through the range someone has just asked a question about what’s the ideal range for professional I mean you need at least four four and a half octaves to cover don’t you be tough on at least four and a half that’s a fall [Music] okay
I’d go down I go you need a couple of those you did you did in that in the concerto in that and the Ramiro down on them want to pay yes - I love when you do that looks like you’re you’re playing with your nose I can I can when I played the very loner I might moths with can touch my nose way and you can smell your mouthpiece don’t we love to do that okay try that at home
Kevin know this road if I play low register too long and loud my lips feel weird afterwards and I refuse our part it’s very important in your practice to do everything not to exaggerated if you play low in the loud range do some very quiet repair work you know stuff on like like what we were talking about something like that really sort of controlled pianissimo you’ve got a balance what you’re practicing so if you’re practicing really loud in the low range which is good do it for ten minutes then do a little bit of repair work otherwise of course the high range will suffer a
Lot yeah also come if you have done loft lower just try to to make a non treasure - like - octave legato [Music] try really not to press your way but move your lip in so I guess smooth we’re asking about air coming out the sides of their of their own matures that’s a tough one because we don’t do that
I think I think if that happens to you look I can do it’s more this sort of pouching in the front yeah yeah user comes from not having attention that pulls this down say these ons and also our being to power yeah yeah if you smile smiling is bad when you play the host funny it’s good very good in life but it’s very bad when you’re playing the horn do not smile when you’re playing the horn your sound
Blowfish know if it’s - nice come on you’re not smiling a beat but urine I mean this I mean II mean he’s just pulling anything that pulls up that way good especially if you have if you lose couldn’t Brown yeah you look like Laurel and Hardy stance that I would have been a selfie moment guys oh my goodness yes another good question um oh yeah they want to know how to play with the mouthpiece against their cheek
I knew that was gonna happen stuff oh my god well suppose you go starchy County I’m on the radio right now there’s also another technique is called the just upper lip technique we’re supposed to be good examples here yeah I’m trying to find all the bad things so don’t do that Emily in Salzburg has a very good question how do you keep in tune and avoid going sharp when it gets really hot in the concert hall and how do you stop the horn slipping in your hands when it’s hot yeah guard now
I used to use a hand guard and suddenly I took it off and I practice one day without it my horn sounded better yeah I had this leather thing and I also took it off and it results a bit in yeah more renovation work from white but this one is less yeah it’s it’s a difference on slipping off slipping off
I think she meant more like slipping off on stuck knots you know I think I think meaning if the hands the horn slipping in the hand I had that just happened to me in Cuba where we were playing and in January and I literally it would like fall down like this I’d have to take yeah I had to bring it back up but just seeing your hand your hand position and your finger the finger hook position it’s quite important so you see this is quite you know it’s quite low it’s not there if it’s like on the last last tiny little appeared we are quite
The same I’m actually a dent in my finger yeah me too look at that thing up so my one’s actually sitting more or less a bit closer to the first motto but if it’s going to be beyond the second law that is going to be really stressful and also you will feel a lot of tension like shoulder and neck so when people come and have this this finger hook somewhere
I can see that it’s like you know they have to spread a lot and I think oh that’s not very healthy because you can feel you can feel it everywhere it’s bit like yeah we are very sensitive in and also like the position of playing all these things come into our inner sound so whatever you can do to write your head up to be quite sprayed with the air going all of you and but also don’t stress your hand too much while you know and then playing on that little bit here’s everything that’s more difficult
I know sloppy fingers please no flat flabby fingers always very disciplined fingers on the valves like that right exactly yeah don’t judge me on digital console oh if I do this don’t judge me either we tell you how it should be so say is we do yeah but for fast bits [Music] will never be like yes yeah no it really is um so really great we’re getting through some great stuff today thank you so much from work that’s when he hold his breath too long he passes out yep sorry about that
Alex Anika wants to know is it true the bananas relax you before concerts they do contain the sports people say that they they they call it your body’s natural it’s a natural beta blocker it’s got something in it which is supposed to come potassium or something I’m not quite sure Stefan do you know that yeah that and also has a lot of magnesium that makes you recover faster for muscle tension like cheese also does have so good thing perfect
I am when we just now in Cuba we had a really heavy schedule we had to record eight pieces in four days and I was really worried about you know i bugged you for months about it I took magnesium every day someone suggested to do that and that I I think it helped I mean it’s sort of like the muscles didn’t feel as tight as they they have done so maybe that’s something to try yeah maybe not everyday maybe you know the solution is sometimes just try out a bit of it yeah you know can have one thing that’s important to tell you guys is
That Stefan and I are very lucky we play in a great Orchestra and we’ve worked very hard to get there but just because we say something is so it doesn’t mean that that’s your perfect way no and also every lip is so different everybody is so different very like positioning of to then you know how how you work your body work the thing is what
I always recommend is like okay try try different things as long as you try to minimize motions most of the time there will be motions coming from like in four octaves you have to have shifts in number sure that’s close to not be possible playing everything in one setup but I think if you have like drums or things going from low to high and try to avoid big shifts because our big movements so that they yeah your positioning is quite 3d
Port William in Batumi has given us some very good potassium magnesium a tional muscle natural muscle but honors are good sorts of both and I tell you one thing don’t eat green bananas I had that once oh dear the green bananas give you a terrible dry mouth ah someone’s called your hand can’t be dad is from Peru hey
Peru I was hoping someone would write into from Peru so I could play my my walk rabbuka may I I’m sure you can but you can improve on that with some lesson form it’s to get the Sheep to come in apparently so I’m just amazed it’s got through customs oh my goodness are you trying this with the
Han Section suing or is that coming let’s do let’s finish with a couple of questions and then go because we don’t watch long we say oh we’ll do 20 minutes always okay and angular our own hello angular Oscar guten abend she says any tips concerning positioning the left arm elbow mine tends to hurt after a while ouch yeah lot of times that that us also have to has to do with a finger oh yeah and of course like the more relaxed you can hold it
I mean the thing is why if you can try to put more weight on the right side and leave this a bit like sorry like really know this there shouldn’t be any big ankle between your hand and that should not be a high up if salt like you take your horn and let this arm fall down actually there’s enough support to hold it if you just hold it very good exactly what does not go to the arm is to play like this like
Klaus voluntour keys to when he was a child he used to play like this stacking to your side like that that’s not good idea yesol knows this stuck in your psyche gives you like a false security thing but then the ankle of the hand is like there that’s that that can start to hurt especially you know around here in here safe no good
I’m going back here a little bit of space here is good no for us yeah we to hold the horn free there is a sixth edition of holding on the leg if you do that fair enough that’s not our way we hold the horn with a little bit of space the base please relax as you can get it because you’re gonna be holding it many hours a day you know more questions more questions oh he played low horn when
I came to Peru great that’s great to see you what advice would you give to someone from the u.s. wanting to study in Europe oh that’s a very interesting question because that is not not you know Europe is quite diverse but say let’s say a lot of this so you have a lot of different approaches of home playing
I think the best of mice is and we will have to talk about this to take a master class with teach us that you do like or think that our teachers that you would be interested in you know meeting the other thing is also most of the teachers are quite easy approachable in the world and you can ask them for a lesser you know actually a profitable so try to find out you don’t reach
Oxford University or whatever and write them a nice email and they will always usually listen to you for you know and then you can find out if this is something for you to go I would invest time I would really invest time to find out because there’s so many teachers so many different teachers say yeah just invest some time in planning on what you would like to do um
Jeff gee are you a big mouthpiece buzzer we covered that in the very first hangout we did last week not really a very big mouthpiece buzzer neither of us actually hardly pour actually not very much not me no sorry when will the hang up for younger beginners players be I’m working on that and working on that we have to find
I found I found you a couple of very good people to include on that and we’re working on that but I really would like to do that Esther uses the Alexander Technique while holding the horn very good Alexander said it really relaxes you yoga whatever it’s really really important to launch relation to a homemaker yeah yeah can we talk about advice for
Americans won’t need audition for European orchestras all right yeah but also take some lessons before in Europe because the way of playing is a little different from country to country so I would even me if I would like go now to play in France from Hofstra I would take some otherwise before because it’s not especially you know always the same yeah ask someone who really knows about and go and play because that is that is there is differences definitely
I also think it’s very important when you’re doing an audition this is another topic that onto the hat if this lockdown goes on we’ve got lots of things to talk about when you’re auditioning for an orchestra make sure you listen to them beforehand so you with a succeed listen to the digital concert hall but try and find recordings of them because orchestras
Orchestra juries like what they know you know and find out how the orchestra plays Brahms what tempos they like you know something like that it’s just do your research beforehand it’s really worth it I think yeah and also please let me know your experiences of online teaching or us and which channel to use and which where you had good experience maybe also tell like like microphones we’re talking about
Tim Tim are you still there like I would especially for you that you yeah I’d like to have a few posters of myself around just to all perfect just to keep me feeling good you know that easier great any tips for microphones yeah a lot but almost any microphone will do a good job usually the most important thing is whatever program you’re using to do the video conference to turn off the automatic microphone settings because well but like the programs will try and like the soft the soft sounds a little bit louder and allows a little bit softer and then you get that weird kind
Of cancellation and it all sort of phases in and out so if you can you just have the original the normal microphone sound going straight in and almost any sort of USB microphone will do a pretty good job like do it on FaceTime you can you can do it a little bit I’ve I don’t use iPhones very much so
I couldn’t tolerate at FaceTime zum-zum yes room zoom is pretty good unless you’re both planes it’s great for parties if it’s bad for playing at the same time but if you just want to listen to someone play and then you yeah you can keep the original audio and as long as it’s our one person at a time it works pretty well actually so no limit on me like we do constantly talk at the same time just kidding okay a little bit okay but then when we play what
I’ve noticed is after Stefan plays then his voice is quieter yes and again that’s if you’re both playing at the same time so not only does your it’s a little bit technical but as you’re doing your video conference if the microphone settings are just sending the normal sounds the overall video conference program or sometimes whoever’s talking first will be writing the second person it gets quite and down so for these things just one person is a time works so
I make sure that I always start talking before so that’s good very good yes okay you’re the boss password oh uh we’ll talk about that later there’s some great there’s some great advice coming in here about blue Yeti Yeti microphones and Skype and zoom and we’ll have a look Stefon there’s some good really great great and who knows you’ll be able to sign up for ask online lessons wish stuff on door very soon let’s see
I will keep you informed definitely that’s great Stefan I’m giving you the night off tomorrow thank you I heard you we have to go to ten yen yes tomorrow night we’re going to we’re going to start at 10 p.m. Berlin time because I can’t get up at 5:00 in the morning so I’m asking to get up at 6:00 in the morning and the stream will go at 7:00 a.m.
Melbourne time we’re going to do a hangout tomorrow night 10:00 p.m. with drum all everybody can I get a call and his wife Dinka which is great because I just Radovan as you know Radovan is God and and Dinka his wife is a performance coach and a therapist and has lots of ice I’ve worked with her she’s amazing great perfect well they’ll be on you get the night off
Stefan but wait but keep your questions coming in on Facebook or here on the chat week so we can read them and um you’ll be back Wednesday night right totally thank you I fall asleep okay there’s nothing nothing we didn’t do a selfie selfie oh okay yeah wait I’m gonna put your horn in the selfie we ready um no but
I can destroy it are we taking it yeah great okay everybody love you can see you see you back here tomorrow 10:00 p.m. Berlin time I’ll put the information the website handsome Tim thank you for waking up so early Stefan thank you for you too see everyone by
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