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[Quincey Homer]

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Woodwind and brass are among the most dynamic and expressive acoustic instruments, and the interaction between the individual players of a horn section can be very complex both harmonically and rhythmically.

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Every year in my teaching the topic of how to practice effectively and maintain good chops for performances comes up with students. The tactic I suggest to horn students is to structure the playing day around an idea that you want to have three solid playing sessions in an ideal day.

Looking back on my Horn matters writings, I was thinking surely I must have written about this? Actually I have not, other than a few basics of the idea laid out in this article, buried far at the end of a long article, with my Orchestra 101 book also touching lightly on the topic, in relation to auditions, and also my warmup book.

I believe I end up talking to most every student about this at some point, and the talk has become better organized over years of teaching. The essential idea is that an ideal horn playing day is structured in three sessions. A session can be any of these

Before expanding on each type of playing session, there is one other critical thing to note. Warm up before each session! For me personally, as of now, I aim for 20 minutes of warmup as the beginning of the first session and 10-15 as the warmup portion of any following session. The goal is to warm up, play seriously, and then rest three times a day, with a warm-down at the end of each session being a good idea too. The playing times include,

Practice. Sessions should not be over an hour, and they should be spread out in the day. A two hour practice session is too much, especially if it is right before or after another session.

Related to the above, it is not a bad idea to plan in a day every week that is lighter, with only one hour of practice. There has to be time to recover. The occasional day off is also a good idea for your chops.

A final note to teachers out there, I must add that I find playing little by little all day teaching lessons to be a bit hard on the chops. My chops feel the best on days where my only playing is practice, rehearsals, or performances. Especially on days where you have performances, it may pay off to limit your playing when teaching lessons.

25 years ago this month. I played my last session in Nashville, not long before moving to Potsdam to start a new career teaching full time at the college level. I was at that time leaving my position as Third Horn in the Nashville Symphony, and as a part of being that level of player in town I would typically play a session or two a month and, in the summer, often several sessions a week. It was a good form of additional income and variety in my playing.

That last session was a great one to go out on, as it was a session related to a widely released, 1997 Fox Animation Studios film, Anastasia. Most of the music for it had been recorded in Hollywood, but some situation came up where they needed to fill in the song Once upon a December with a new scoring session (more on the song here, it has a dedicated Wikipedia page).

The film was released that November, so this was an important thing that they spent some real $ on to get right! There were at least four horns on the session, and memory says maybe six. It was at what I recall was referred to as the Alamo studio, in the former Tony Alamo church, but officially it was then and is now still known as the Ocean Way studio.

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I've been covering more songs that need some kind of horn section. Think Lido Shuffle, Long Long Way From Home (foreigner), 25 or 6 to 4, Vehicle, Into the Mystic etc.

I normally hate the inherent cheesiness of covering horns on keys but it I've just been asked to a lot more lately. I think I draw the line at doing a sax solo or something like that. For example, Billy Joel's "You May Be Right", it's just as relevant to let some other legit instrument cover the solo as fake a sax on the keys. But if I can lay back and add some appropriate layers I like to do that.

One of my main problems is the Logic/Mainstage horns program. It's terrible. Doesn't sound too bad but for some reason it will have an enormous amount of midi hangs that require the midi-panic button, like no kidding all the time. I have no other VSTs that cause this problem so I don't think it's some other part of my rig. Depending on my rig, I can get horns with one of my other keys but I like to have a Mainstage Only version of everything I play.

So Hive Mind, help me: what VST's would be better than the Mainstage Horns for filling space.

that or the fact, that (at least in my world, and granted, NYC is a fickle, highly opinionated place), if you play horn parts on a keyboard you get (at the very least) the look of death from other band members, and (at the other extreme) asked to leave. as always YMMV.

Chris Hein Compact are fine, imo, for the kind of section stuff you want to do. The other one I know of personally is the e-instruments Session Horns (sold by Native Instruments). They both sound good but not in mono! (Again, imo of course - but to me it makes a big difference; I think "acoustic" horn samples need "air" for their sound to come alive, and that requires a wide soundspace).

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