This episode is sponsored by High Range Magic, a 3 month bootcamp for horn players. Find out more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOG58cB9AU8

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Holistic Horn, Episode 2- Jeff Lang on Success, Accuracy, Chops, Sound & Virtuosity

Jeffrey Lang (https://www.jeffrey-lang.com/) is Associate Principal Horn in Philadelphia Orchestra, and French horn faculty at Temple, Curtis Institute, and Bard.  

Check out his beautiful Brahms Trio Recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-RwOHxk0k

You can listen to his album on Spotify here

https://open.spotify.com/album/2SXQdpFoerw104WtM8MCaX

On this podcast we cover SO MANY TOPICS, here is a short list:

- Post-pandemic insights, the function of music in society

- How to avoid being a jaded professional

- What makes a student successful

- It’s never good to be down on your playing

- “Choke”, the book: why athletes and musicians screw up and how to fix your place of focus to avoid choking

- When jeff DOESN’T feel bad about missing notes, and when he does (great wisdom!)

- You can probably forgive yourself a little more if you’re a horn player

- Two simple secrets to building accuracy on the horn

- How to get around the the paradox that attachment to accuracy leads to less accuracy

- How jeff approaches endurance, high range, recovery

- The difference between working out & warming up

- The number one way you can screw up your chops 

- Can ibuprofen be helpful as a prophylactic?

- The player who wins auditions

- Making a good sound

- If Jeff could wave a magic wand in the horn world… 

- Postage stamps to murals

- Fixing scarcity mentality in the horn world

- The 3 players that most inspired Jeff, and how he attempted to merge their qualities into his own sound.

- What Jeff would put on a billboard for all horn players

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Other links from the conversation:

ChopSaver - great recovery lip balm! https://www.chopsaver.com/

"Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To": https://a.co/d/8lvTcGn

James Chambers Plays the French Horn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEsvZ3KCsLQ