Yes, obviously it's important to listen but often other players can hear things we miss.
A confident and mature approach from the entire section is important too - we are a section, not four players. I'm one of Hans's dreaded "semi-pros" - I teach horn for a living and play as much as I can (although that is going to change very soon). I play for an orchestra which records commercial cd's on a fairly regular basis. We agree as a section that we should forget English politeness and that if any player has a problem with what another player is doing, we say so - if someone thinks I'm playing sharp/flat unmusically, then I want to know and we can fight it out. It's worked so far. If we don't all have the confidence in each other to do that, then, when the section sounds lousy on the cd, no-one will say, "what a crap 3rd horn", they'll say, "what a crap horn section" and we don't want that - we all need the cash! Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
