What up party people?? Yeah that’s right, we told you we were back to doing this consistently (shoutout to the haters who thought we were gone again) and today we are all about talking some TV music and speculating about what Fantasia 2023 might sound like. So kick back and relax while listening (unless you’re driving) to this show with some of these highlights:

• The return of sound effects
• TV music and how it’s good
• Whatever creature James thought a “Blippy” was
• Drew eating cookies most of this episode
• The hurdy-gurdy and all its glory
• Why Australian sirens go backwards

And even more!
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Quoting the podcast: “We’ve said this way too many times – and this is the final time that we will be saying this… we are back!” (No guarantees – your mileage may vary) In this episode we talk about:

• Baby’s first audiation
• James’ summer compositions
• Drew’s new fixed media piece
• Why exercise is definitely (probably) important

And even more!
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Happy Halloween and spooky season! The Cor Moto Horn Duo is here to celebrate Halloween with you (like we do every year) and play some fun spooky games that are sort of music-adjacent, but always a good time! This episode is also special because there is a GIVEAWAY at the end, so listen to the entire episode to have a chance to win some free music from us! We play some games about candy, make up some stories, talk about horror movies, insert silly sound effects, and all sorts of fun things! Topics discussed are:
-Horror genres (and subgenres, and supergenres, and stupid genres, and everything inbetween)

-Kenny G echoing from nowhere

-What you would do if your triangle turned into roaches :O

-John Williams’ candy preferences

-The pros and cons of hydrating intensely before Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony

-What an illegal deal in euchre looks like

-Potty humor, but not like the dirty kind, just literally humor about potties

-A quiz on horror film themes

-An illegal activity in Arizona we just learned about

…and so much more!
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We had a killer caption planned out…but then we blanked and forgot it. Which you will never do again, because we are talking today about memorization! Memorizing music is a task that is sometimes asked and sometimes required of us, so we discuss the pros and cons of memorizing music and tips on how to best accomplish the feat! Other topics include:

• Why memorizing music is good for you musically
• The history of the word “segue” (or however you pronounce it)
• How Drew is still unsure whether Mozart 2 has an A-flat or an A-natural
• Digital lyres
• What thoughts actually run through your head when performing
• Why starting a Mozart piano sonata in F is a bad idea

And even more!
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Well she got her daddy’s horn
And she played at the hamburger stand now
Seems she forgot all about the Kopprasch
Like she told her old man now
And with the symphonies blasting
Plays along just as fast as she can now

And she’ll have fun fun fun
‘Til spent corners takes her french horn away!

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Go eeEEeeEEeeEEaaAAsy on us (with Adele) and be happy because we are back!  The Cor Moto Horn Duo has gotten to come up for a breath of fresh air and we wanted to breathe some very invigorating life into this podcast with new and renewed energy, so sit back and enjoy our comeback podcast!
In this episode, we address how you can actually get better over the summer at your instrument, even if you don’t want to unpack (because burnout is real and not just what happened last week when Drew attempted to operate a grill!).  Some topics we cover are:

• Transposition practice
• Listening to all sorts of music
• Does it matter what octave you freebuzz in?
• Mathematical properties and home ownership
• The real problem with transposing by clef (spoiler: it’s the people)
• Aural skills help
• How many notes Drew would miss if you gave him a transposed Brahms 2 part
• James’ favorite activity (spoiler: hiding under a blanket in silence)
• Pickleball classical music bias and why racquet sports need more Chopin-esque Zelda themes in their lives
• Rabbitholes on Youtube
• The easiest way to be disenrolled from the UGA horn studio
• A case for Nickelback

And even more!
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Happy Halloween and welcome to another spooktacular episode of The Complete Musician Podcast! We haven’t done a Halloween podcast in a while (like since last Halloween), so we are thrilled and chilled to bring you more scary fun! Games abound today with made up scary stories, candy discussions, and scary music talk!

Other topics include:

-How Drew is now TikTok famous and his mean replies

-Identifying “sticky” Southern food comparisons

-Scary story discernment

-James’ continued hatred of candy corn

-WAY too many people liking Hot Tamales

-8-Bit Taylor Swift music and Yakkity Sax

-How to identify Drew’s made-up stories

-The insane inflation of the candy market

-The weirdly satisfying sensation of biting through a slightly melted Jolly Rancher

…and so much more!

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It’s the not posting a podcast for months at a time and then waltzing into the room (in 4/4 time) like we haven’t been gone for half a year for us, and boy are we excited to be back! The Cor Moto Horn duo has resurfaced from the depths of this first semester of teaching (or whatever it was that actually happened) and wanted to talk about some of the musical things we have done over the past year in terms of composition! Some really neat projects have been undertaken and completed, so we hope you enjoy a sample of the fun things we have been working on! Also, if you don’t listen to this for any other reason, at least listen to the end for what probably should have ended up on the blooper reel, but was left purely because we dissolve into laughter over a scratchy throat.

Topics for this episode include:

• New compositions and commissions
• Consortiums
• How we don’t remember how to do anything technological except screen share or use a digital whiteboard
• What makes a piece of music Swedish
• Secret student blogs on the internet
• Some luck and some dreams…but not necessarily in that order
• How James keeps breaking his glass harmonicas
• What constitutes music that has “meat on the bones” (sorry to all the Schumann fans out there)
• When James will and won’t hold your hand (AKA the ossia debacle)
• The love that we feel for the fourth movement of Episodes for Horn and Piano
• Plans of a future episode in which we bring in our original music in a Shark Tank style episode of critique
• How the last podcast we posted was about the time Space Jam came out
• The best demo for James’ piece Nine Miniatures that you’ve ever heard
• Jeff Agrell’s obsession with Nordic soap operas
• Seeds and bonsai trees
• Paper Mario and O Holy Night arrangements
• The best cough-laugh sequence you’ve ever heard that definitely should have been left for the blooper reel

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Contrary to what R.E.M. tried to make us believe, it is definitely NOT the end of the world, and we all know it!  But what you also should know is that there is a new episode out of The Complete Musician Podcast for you to listen to in our quarantine times!

We’ve been doing the online teaching thing for a few days now, and rather than think of it as a negative or a drawback, we discuss how you should shift your mindset to taking advantage of this time for practice and getting feedback online from your teacher!  Many different techniques can be utilized and perfected over the internet that will still contribute to your improvement as a player and your teacher is just itching to use them with you in your lessons!  We urge you to take advantage of using recording devices, striving for the highest possible quality and performance standards during this time, and making creative fun musical projects that you can share and learn from, along with many more ideas!

Cough! Sneeze! Achoo! Ack!

Something is afoot in our nation and it might be takin’ after Peggy Lee and givin’ you fever, or you may be just holed up in your home with too much toilet paper, but now you have a lot of time to listen to the newest episode of The Complete Musician Podcast!

We are facing very dire times in our nation and James and Drew are VERY concerned about how to continue teaching students if we all have to work from home! We are not doctors that actually heal people BUT we have some ideas about how you and your teacher can still do remote private lessons and improve at your instrument. These ideas are 100% based in fact, experimentation, and scientific study, so make sure to listen thoroughly and take very seriously because we are experts.

We also play a game where you get to learn about new music to make you more complete in your well-founded musical knowledge by guessing which band names Drew found on the internet or made up!

Topics include:

And more!