Live Horn Hangouts in the Time of Corona - Episode 1 - Sarah and Stefan live in Berlin, March 23, 2020.
Transcript
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Hi everyone welcome to the horn hangouts my goodness me I can’t believe how many of you are out there I mean we’ve had so many messages already on the chat you are watching literally all over the world it’s it’s weird times for for the Australians in the Japanese we’ve got some Japanese friends who are awake at five o’clock in the morning
Hanson Tim is in Melbourne and has got up what time is it over there to him oh it’s 7 o’clock in the morning very early for me yeah but what you don’t know is that you and I what the others don’t know is you and I were on the chat already an hour ago so you were up at 6 so thank you for doing that it’s my pleasure absolutely welcome everybody
I know the moto moto at the moment is stay at home and that’s what we’re all doing and this is why we’re trying to connect with you through the horn hangouts that’s why we we founded them all those years ago is to connect the horn community and yeah that’s what we’re doing and I’ve got a co-host today
I’m so happy and excited that Stephan Doris joined us hi Stefan hello Sara how are you doing I miss you - I miss actually playing with you yeah it’s so weird it’s like today we should’ve been rehearsing Fidelio for baden-baden in Bob and Bob and already we would have been there already yeah yeah oh my god I lose track of the day do you guys lose track of the days
I mean it’s really like outside it’s like the first of 1st of January at at 8 o’clock in the morning it’s like it looks like some day every day in the morning when I go with the dogs that’s nobody they’re just a couple of dog owners that’s it it’s quite we love to hear where you’re watching from we love to hear what you’re drinking here it’s a cup of tea
Stefan what are you drinking you know here it’s 9 o’clock in the evening so I actually because I was waking up very early this morning and I had already a bit of dinner before we you know before we started this so I had actually one beer okay yeah one and a half they’re still waiting for me for after their talk so we are so happy to have you here as a co-host thank you so much and everybody if you can write all your messages in for those of you watching on the website
I have all your questions here on my iPad and on the on Facebook I can see we can see where you’re all coming in for I can’t really follow all those questions right now handsome Tim is monitoring the chat so if you really want me to ask something put it over on the website it’s easier for me to see it but all of you joining in new
Newport Carolina Jessica from Pennsylvania Jorge from Las Vegas Marcus from Darmstadt we could go on for ages Scotland oh my goodness this is really quite incredible but some let’s get to some questions Stefan because that’s what we’re hanging out for right absolutely I don’t know who saw Stefan’s hangout the first one he did but there was a cliffhanger do you all know what a cliffhanger is stuck on do you know what a cliffhanger is another movie it’s not very good no but a key player is when is if somebody wants to know something and at the very last minute they you can’t that the series
Is it ends and the credits come you think why are you so after watch the next one yeah that’s right that’s what we did that’s what we did because you were you had just told us that you had played the whole Bruckner for in the Berlin Philharmonic on trial without a tongue no on trial but no I couldn’t not it was about
I think it was there for a couple of years but I couldn’t play I can use my you know time to attack notes for what fun for six months say no one actually realized that except of me but that was not very funny and you told us about that we were very grateful and touched that somebody who we all told the goat the greatest of all time
I hope you’re blushing and among these many compliments at work it’s only because I miss you right now thank you and then the door opened and lucky came in your black Labrador and and completely basically upset the whole hangout because he ate all the gummy bears that fell on the ground that’s right and you were just about to tell us something else about something about your yeah yeah yeah
I remember very clearly that that’s a couple of years ago - I was having a bit of a summer holiday that happened I didn’t play the horn for maybe just ten days two weeks I don’t I don’t take long breaks in the summer but then I had to you know I do my I did my yeah come back ambusher program playing practice quite a lot and then
I think we had a summer - so we have a week of rehearsals and like five six seven concerts and the program was like mala - and Brahms one so Brahms one is very low quite low register all the time and Manitou is also not so yeah not so demanding and yeah and somehow after that I had to play matzah for like a week later and
I couldn’t I couldn’t get my high notes I was like and and what’s our fault is not high I mean usually there’s quite a few no I mean at the end of the first movie gets a bit like I are birds and usually it’s not a big problem I was really having I was struggling so hard so
I decided actually after had this problem to go back to my teacher and ask for twice that was a pencil at that time yes and I mean that was my former teacher I think I didn’t I didn’t go for a lesson for a couple of years maybe ten eight or something of this but actually the concert I played monster for wasn’t kind in the
Philharmonia and I was like oh why don’t I just gonna use the time and you know I call him I still know the number by I might still have it in my don’t know why no I I went and then he yeah he asked me at what the story was before what happened before and she was listening to uh actually you’re fine
I’m I said ah but I you know yeah said okay build up again slowly build up again it’s just that you know Brahms wondered everything is like quite you know opens the you know the embouchure opening it’s just to open you need to focus a bit on the high so set up every exercise you do and don’t start it where you usually it’s not just start higher vibrating were they not
I think I was yeah there were a lot I think that the high register didn’t really didn’t really speak so I had to use a lot of pressure and the more pressure I used the earlier tire they lipstick gear and then of course this is like if you are in med and you can’t stop it then it’s like it’s going on and on and you need to stop and reset and just a higher attention don’t try to make the biggest sound of the word try to you know focus on on flexibility high range keep notes a bit for longer every day so that you saw
Like rebuild your muscles you’ve been practicing I can see it I’ve been practicing today actually now not there so much because I gave myself and looking time out for a bit more than a week so I restarted yesterday and maybe we can talk about how to restart absolutely I think that’s a really good idea I there are so many
I can’t keep up there are so many amazing questions for you from you guys coming in I will you them all we may not get to them all night but now but we will see them all and I will answer as many as I can on the chat I love the fact you’re all saying what where you’re where you’re watching from it’s really quite incredible so we get we’ll get to some of them
I promise like there’s one don’t let me forget this one this is a really good one Stefan amateur utility ship ding D says I’m raising my hand for a question what exercises would be good for amateurs on a practice mute since the mute pushes notes tighter together this is a really good one let’s get to the practice mute but first tell us how when you’ve had a break we’re all maybe having a bit of a corona break although some with from some of you
I have the feeling you’re playing even more than ever because everyone’s doing acapella everybody’s live-streaming everybody’s playing together which is really nice yeah I said I think the the most important thing is not that you change your exercises or your routine but you change the timing in it so if you usually do like whatever exercise you do just take a bit more time before you go to the next step take a bit more time maybe don’t go as high as you used to for the first day don’t go as low try to shape the notes try to make it really sounding beautiful but in the
Range you can reach and then extend from there the first day usually the first 10 minutes perfect the ambushers there you just play you have never been as good well then you put trying to play through first movement off mods at 4:00 or stars 1 and they think oh that is different so I think you know of course you lose a bit of muscles here there’s a bit of muscles and the support you gain a bit of weight the next days hey what’s it like for you guys today on all of the hang out
I got out of my jogging trials and my jogging pants my sweatpants and put on my jeans and I thought it’s not good because cooking becomes one of my obsessions these days interesting so but oh I forgot a horn yet I’m good I can’t play loud because it’s already like what about 10 past 9:00 or something let us know you playing along good though
I actually what I do for my daily warm-up is so I bend a bit the second-last know who not to not press your way up but sort of like have the flexibility to you know to be flexible in the lips to to go up and make you know yeah I’m sure bit smaller and then opening keep this yeah make this very beautiful like this is my first task in the morning to play these sounds really like oh there has to be good smooth always make the best sound you can and
I think it’s really important in the mornings there’s all sorts of different techniques out there are people doing flutter tonguing people doing loud notes long notes I agree with Stefan I do exactly the same thing as him make it as beautiful as you can yeah you can you know this this going on alright slow next up next up next up yes may
I ask a question John is he wanted to know Izzy is literally doing that exam status exactly stamp exercise right now I’m Joan wants to know what is your mute okay this one look it doesn’t look very pretty anymore because it has been traveling and has been troubling my suit [Music] blowing up again but some dense day its aku removed from
Japan they don’t make these anymore no a different one not that one don’t for these are the newer commutes and they actually sound quite good they screw better into your into your bell [Music] actually everything everything like that is recorded on these like iPads or it’s like sounds like but that’s fine is that the old one because there’s bit smaller
I didn’t I couldn’t I was too cheap to buy the new one it’s the old silent bras without that you remember we had a little thing here you know we had this yeah you can switch from church to practice room too it was great I always sounded great so I took I threw away that bit and put in this and this is for me the best one [Music] because the feeling the feeling is okay it’s usually always the practice
Muse are a bit more yeah easy to play then then you usually would play yeah so I do sometimes change to to just play stop because that gives a bit more yeah it’s something we also practice why do you practice stopped yeah if you I mean I do have to practice stop a lot because practicing with the practice mute in the hotel after a while is not for me it’s not very good for my embouchure but what
I do i do play whole concertos stopped [Music] but I don’t transpose so I just I just finger the original and it’s very good it’s also it’s good quite good for the support you feel its supporters more in charge of the you know of keeping them out straight if you have like Nowell notes so you need a bit more support and also you need a bit more muscle power then then yeah you have to keep these like yeah with a lot of tension yeah
I saw that they don’t get ya wobbly or fluttering yeah if you know there’s these two you have ya ya know a bit lower bit lower yeah there was this yeah these ones doing this wait you could have shaved up no I gave that a try things out I’m trying not to go to the you know long hair
I will have long hair soon anyway so anyway you have these ring the ring muscle yeah what you also have two that are here yeah in charge yeah so if you put them down that makes your chin going yes quite like straight but then you have to put the ring a bit together again otherwise if that sounds get really flat so that’s fine right now which you are cuz
I can see if there’s so many of you watching I absolutely love it right in where you’re watching from if you have any really cool questions for Stefan write them here on the website tim has has posted that the thing we’re getting so many people gen Montone is join hi Jen Jen says she likes practicing stopped much more than with the practice yeah me too actually much more and someone wants to know if somebody asked if he could get the mutant orange no idea you have to ask cost us yet that cost us you’re right this is
Costas is mute this is my main mute behind me can see at the moment but I don’t like practicing with a real mute it’s too loud most of the time the neighbors complain they do cost us thank you for that new that’s very nice my name step on door that’s nice too it is really nice okay so where were we here so the embouchure especially when you’re getting back into shape do you consciously control what you’re doing here yeah
I’m I do I do I look sometimes I mean it is it is what you have to do especially at the beginning that you don’t get into into what I have sort of like yeah this is to open as I said and then no control and there toy that looks like it has no hat look before usually and there doesn’t look like too expressed once nice to most of the time so whatever whatever it looks stressed mostly it sounds stressed do i mark
Weaver off do I recall you mentioning something about playing forward into the mouthpiece Stefan because we’ve got a lot of young players watching too because no one’s at school so we’re all doing our horn work here it’s a really important thing that I really encourage from a very early age you know this what you actually showed me this when
I joined the birther field because I was getting a double buzz like crazy remember yeah absolutely yeah this thing is if she it’s hard to demonstrate on magic say if you’re trying to two bars on this part of some some of the Hans habit sorry so yeah this okay there’s usually to blow like bubble something so see that the the opening you have doesn’t get to fled so that is them yeah say if you come from here that is quite okay oh no that’s not yeah not appropriate but the thing is when you go to it here you have a easy high register but you
Can’t really control it so I told you to play high because what do you need for high notes you need a high tension of the lips so they vibrate faster and the high airspeed and you of course you can do you know by like going to this to this very smiley joke of face position but it actually will kill the song so try to keep that round by yeah avoiding to go too much there there are young kids watching from
Denmark in Copenhagen says Knicks humor players watching Harold’s from castle that’s good yeah a tuba players and Breanna says you can use the second valve b-flat side let’s try that very good Breanna look that’s what I was [Music] sorry that is here just for demonstration not ever it not every B flat side has this long thing it’s just on the horn to put it out easier that’s why
I did I thought you’d been preparing with some sort of surgical instruments for this hangout so horn ella is watching horn ella is in point of ironies she’s a very young horn player and she plays really fantastic and she said she’s so she’s so happy to be here muchas gracias lo amore mio mucho yeah yeah I’ll translate that later the rest of it or nella
I’m sorry my Spanish is muy Molly I will look at this later but from the Netherlands said he started playing 40 he’s 44 he started playing six months ago great oh wow that’s really really great so on the hangouts we have really everyone and I I’m struggling here because I want to give something for everybody you know because we’ve got big job like fantastic professionals who are watching and
F horn Patrick is watching I know he’s been doing some great livestream sport for younger players fantastic stuff you’re doing out there Patrick well done what what do you think we need in this very first horn hangout I would like some motivation right now because sitting at home alone with my horn missing you guys knowing I’m not gonna play a concert for it what not knowing when the next is yeah
I think what we should do is we should like start to play in the green books so you play your part I mean we base everything on you because you’ve got the best information and you play for fun maybe play it like all the puns and you can someone can decide which part you have to find out how that works okay that someone you know can just leave all the power or something and you can join us and playing that would be really lovely
I think we should work on that a bit for the next days maybe suggestions do you have any suggestions how are you keeping motivated because it would really help us help us all online to know what you’re doing I mean what I can say just to keep in shape sometimes I do actually take my iPad put headphones on put a book no
Symphony and play it through yeah it hurts a bit sometimes if you’re alone and your neighbors won’t like you but you can do it stopped and transpose I’m actually quite lucky here I haven’t heard anything on last week I think maybe downstairs neighbors are not here I don’t have any neighbors except of downstairs here that’s good so beside there’s a terrace so no one there upstairs just sky debate over nine it was freezing
I was very cold at the moment yeah absolutely at the front and then once at the back of the house all I got was one oh okay good it’s it’s a collection of like how many other hundred hundred little you know from folk songs to to opera choirs like five sheets like my sitting is and [Music] happy birthday
March and a waltz medley and there are lots like small and green and they’re you know outside plastic so you can even play them in the rain Mallis in every occasion also in every state of and also also they are very easy to play us I mean maybe we could think about having them on the past of it like parts of it in the
Internet somewhere publisher rinds we have to find out we do people are liking that idea very much someone suggested brush to keep in shape all exercises I mean look what I have here what I actually don’t like - good good good I followed that haven’t played all of them so but now I am and it’s they’re quite hard leads so it involves it carries on right from what
Stefan was showing us the Vernon Reynolds attitudes you all know the studies we’ve all got study books or on your iPads or whatever and there are always the ones you skip over because there are too many sharps too many flats it’s too low it’s too much bass clef much bass clef exactly bass clef very important to practice bass clef during the times of corona very important so a very good maxemail form
I skip a lot of those those are hard so now is the time guys to do the studies that we always skip over you know what I mean Stefan don’t you absolutely I also what I what I want to do is I have because we are here living with four people so Thomas living here and tom is a pianist but he has no piano here but he has a keyboard but you can also find a lot in the internet like in imslp you have a look there’s horn and piano try to side read things just download them and side with it some are very difficult
But some are quite easy and fun and so so just just flip them through don’t like them or don’t don’t know I’ll just pay them online or whatever just just have a look there’s some lovely things today I’m sure it is it’s good just I’d read a bit sometimes but there’s some Cuba issues that I like to practice and now is now at the time guys
I want you all to practice low horn okay when I started playing low horn nobody ever practice low horn because it was just something you did when when you couldn’t get the high notes so I actually started on the low home yeah but you practice low every day should have fun you know no no but out of my very first contract was when
I was 17 I played second and fourth Hornung kids incursion in the orchestra and my bass left my base left reading wasn’t very good and I went to the first rehearsal of Tristan and Isolde on false form and was no fun who was no fun right yeah stop notes load on there somewhere yeah bass clef in D and then stop forget about it no fun there’s all sorts of people writing in about what they are doing is a a me
Sanchez from UCLA she started a weekly horn challenge a core owner challenge cello suites there’s dancing tim says kubera tubes are the best that’s because handsome Jim is a tuba player so yes to gal a second choose Maxime Alphonse great guys keep it all coming what what issues you play what you would suggest my other on my other motivation can
I tell you what I’ve only got three more things on my knees of course we have time time now everybody I know everyone’s here you’re all hanging out so it’s the the playing the studies and not just turning the pages of the ones you don’t like because they’re too hard playing those ones also stretching you know I forget all the time when
I practicing like warming up to stretch that exactly this Oh anyway if you could any of you got your horns out yeah those what else drop your head well you know that one these are all that’s really important and we forget to do it when we’re stressed when we’re rushing to rehearsals when we’re rushing home we forget so that’s something
I really decided to shut your arms out like that and then the other thing are practicing slowly that’s something we always forget we think go do my warmup try and doing your warmup half speed for once you know really controlling everything that’s left on my lawn is already half speed keeping that exact what you’re talking about you know go and then you have to play something fun every day
Stefan what would you play for fun a half speed that’s double speed sorry I’m very sorry no I think sight-reading is the most fun thing I do that’s sort of like enjoyable okay good so we’re gonna print out some stuff if any of you find any good things on that we can print out from other instruments will you tell us about tomorrow because tomorrow the good news is we’re coming back at the same time aren’t we should have fun same time tomorrow night can you manage are you free
I think I can manage Chuck I can hear Hanson Tim groaning because he has to get up at six o’clock again tomorrow morning maybe he can get up like what oh just seven because now we have tested everything that’s I think it seemed to be working fine it seems to be working I built a little studio I’ve had a lot of comments on my tripod
I booked a tripod out of vegetarian cookbooks brother books and photo albums and Winnie the Pooh yeah we fine so what’s what’s what’s tomorrow on what are we say I’ll go through all these wonderful questions I will pick out some really good ones and we will get we will get to these questions tomorrow because today’s been a sort of happy you’re all here especially or wherever you are over the in the world it’s really really quite amazing oh there’s some very good ones place standing up place standing up very good who said that
William oh here we go we get Stefan tummy oh oh that’s a good chair dude chair you can sit upright yourself like you’re leaving on your knees you’re always like motion that’s why I’m not seasick basis and I’m not drunk I’m not this is like yeah moving very good for your back we bring our horns to the next hangout of course bring your horns to the next hangout maybe we can all play something together definitely don’t open the windows okay no
I think we can yeah I we can go on with some daily exercises things maybe in between the bed so have that we see you back here tomorrow I hope so actually or on the website you know what to do you know where to go and I’m Stefan will let you go back you’ve got dinner you’ve got some more dinner waiting
I think they’re all asleep already I don’t know I learned I have to take lucky out here can we see you sleeping never look thank you for Julian angry go through all your questions and pick out some really juicy oh great thanks for the tip on is MMP thank you for that [Music] oh he doesn’t like being picked up right no oh lucky he usually yowls when you’re when you’re playing hand stopped right yeah that’s why
I can’t let you pick the stopped in the same room because he doesn’t like it at all he’s um I don’t know if he doesn’t like but it seems long so he doesn’t go away so maybe they maybe even likes it suggested this right we were doing a selfie we’re doing a global horn selfie okay so get your phones into selfie mode
Stefan you got your horn ready we want now posing to selfies in to say we’ll beat the stupid virus okay ready ready to go one two three okay we want to see these post them for us hashtag horn hangouts anywhere on any of us you know what you know what to do you guys thank you so much for joining us thank you
Stefan you’re here thank you sir see you see you soon gone that was great I think I think we should finish it up now yeah perfect as a nice breakfast we’ll see you tomorrow bye everybody [Music]
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