| I had a huge AHA moment a few years back. Jim Thompson came up and did a workshop. (I've mentioned this here many times...it was a big influence on me, and still is).
He played some excerpt (I don't remember what, exactly...it's not all that important WHAT he played, anyway). Not trying to be loud. Just in tune. The ring was incredible. He didn't even look like he was "breaking a sweat", yet the room was full of this ring, which kept going for many seconds afterwards. All he did, by his explanation, was play in tune, in the center of his horn. He said that in his years with Atlanta and in the times he played extra in NY, he never really had to play "loudly"; just right down the center of the pitch. Ever since then, I have been trying to get that "ring"; that center. Some days are more successful than others, by the way).
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"Roses have thorns; shining waters mud. Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun; and history reeks of the wrongs we have done. After today, after today, consider me gone."- Sting |