| I have a GREAT excercise for this!!!
Everyone in the group picks a random note, and you all play it at once. Hold it for a while, and try and tune and balance it. Then, start from the lowest voice (usually the tuba), and tune upwards. So... Tuba and trombone match pitch and balance, then add french horn, then trumpet 2, then trumpet one. You will also learn how to tune individual chord tones, because by the time you are done adding Trumpet 1, you might have a different chord then what you started with. For example.
Tuba plays : E
Trombone: B
French horn : G
Trumpet 2 : D
Trumpet 1 : C
You would at first have an E minor chord, but at the end, you'd have a C major 9 chord, so the tuba (now playing the major third of the chord), would have to lower his pitch for that chord tone tuning tendency.
It has worked magic for my quintet.
Kevin
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