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There is a lot on the outside that we cannot control. Circumstances, other people, the weather.

We can control a lot of what goes on inside of us. A brilliant book on this subject is “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor Frankl.

We are all constantly talking to ourselves, usually without realising it. The quality and content of this self-talk has a huge effect on how we experience life.

When I first read Shad Helmstetter’s book “What to say when you talk to yourself ” it shocked me to my core. I hadn’t realised how negative, counterproductive and damaging my habitual self-talk was.

Although I delved deeper, made radical changes to the quality of my self-talk and installed new habitual ways of coping with the work related stress I had to deal with, I was unable to stop a process that would eventually cripple me as a horn player.

The cumulative effects of the process led me to experiencing unpredictable amygdala hijacks on stage during performances.

Sensory input, that we can be totally unaware of, can automatically trigger the amygdala in milliseconds activating the HPA (hypothalmic-pituitary- adrenal) axis bypassing the neocortex.

The resultant chemical flooding of the body causes a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.

I knew about fight and flight, but I experienced FREEZE without knowing or understanding what was going on. It was frightening, bewildering and frustrating.

Only in retrospect, whilst reading Matthew Syed’s book “BOUNCE” on holidays in Darwin, Australia, did I find out about “FREEZE”.

Then the penny dropped. It was a huge Ah-Ha moment.

All the feelings of helplessness, being a victim, shame, frustration, guilt and failure had a name. Which meant I could go digging and looking for a solution.

It took me years … years of frustrating practice, fighting unsuccessfully against a hidden foe living inside my mind.

Late in 2019, I read the following three books in a short space of time:
Evolve your Brain by Joe Dispenza
change your questions change your life by Marilee Adams
Words That Change Minds by Shelle Rose Chavet

Dispenza revealed that there are two types of amygdala hijacks – one associated with some sort of traumatic experience like a car accident that you could work on with a therapist.

And another that the amygdala causes outside of our awareness.

This was a HUGE Ah-Ha moment when I discovered this type that flew under my radar of awareness and understood how it had been crippling me.

Adams’ book helped me become aware of the disempowering chatter like commentary (and questions) that was going on when I was practicing.

While working on Laudatio by Bernhard Krol, I registered the disabling, judgemental self-talk running rampant in my mind, realised the damage it was doing and then consciously changed it to an open ended, empowering question: ”How can I experience this passage as easy and effortless and have the high Bb sound like the rising sun looks in Kakadu National Park in Australia?”

The result astounded me. This particular passage, in the past always tiring and challenging was suddenly unbelievably easy. I stood there in total disbelief and thought: “No, it can’t be this easy?”

It was! The right question intervening and injected at the right time!

I played the passage several more times repeating the question beforehand each time. I had to take time time out after that experience to digest the totally different results I had produced.

The day of the performance arrived. I was nervous … scared of all my good work being undone by an amygdala hijack … scared of going into an incapacitating FREEZE!

A Persian children’s eye specialist, who operates on special needs children at a hospital in Toronto, held a fascinating opening talk prior to me playing Laudatio.

Towards the end of his talk I became aware of a “bar of fear feeling” sitting across my chest below my throat.

It was one of those awful feelings that forebode no good. I then became aware of a growing feeling of panic.

Trapped so to speak.

Wanting to deliver excellence and being threatened by the potential release of toxic chemicals that could trigger my freeze response.

Suddenly Marilee Adams’ book came to the rescue. Quickly, I asked myself: “ How can I transform this fear energy such that it enables and empowers me to deliver excellence?”

And the fear energy popped up into a big smile on my face. That was a huge unexpected surprise.

Then the fear feeling crept back into my chest. So I repeated the question and this process another five times before it was literally time to face the music.

The host Professor called me up on stage and introduced me. Before playing I took several slow, deep breathes all the while asking the question: “How can I enable and empower myself to deliver excellence for this audience?”

Then something like a miracle happened. I performed in public as a soloist, delivering excellence, and without an amygdala hijack for the first time in nine or more years.

Following the next presentation from the guest of honour, performing Horn Lokk by Sigurd Berger was equally enJOYable and gratifying experience.

Driving home afterwards was like flying on a Persian carpet. It was the most satisfying, rewarding and joyful performance of my career.

The second biggest Ah-Ha experience of my career was in early 2009.

And it also began with a question – a question to which I did not know the answer.

This was was: “Could you use the filter stuff from the electric kettle filter in our kitchen to convert a water key so that the water could permanently drain in real time and also remain airtight???”

After building a prototype onto the lead-pipe of my Dieter Otto triple, I went to work to see if I had overlooked something – if someone would make a critical comment about my sound or intonation?

Nada! Nothing!!! After three days, a feeling of excitement spread throughout my belly. Inadvertently I had stumbled onto something major!

An automatic water drainage system for brass (and as it later turned out also some woodwinds) instruments.

Lots more questions followed about how to turn the idea into something practical and easy to use.

And the answers followed so that on the 1st of September 2009 the website and web shop for the JoyKey went live online.

At that time Dieter Otto did some major repairs to my triple AND installed the first eleven JoyKeys on it. He also installed five on my 180K double.

Back in the orchestra in Cologne, no-one noticed the JoyKeys or that I had stopped emptying manually.

But shortly afterwards at an audition in Trossingen for the Horn professorship, Michael Höltzl and Wolfgang Gaag DID notice while I was playing Strauss 1. They were puzzled as to what was going on and finally asked themselves “ Does he have DRY breath???”

Afterwards when I showed Wolfgang Gaag the JoyKeys on my triple, and explained that they formed an automatic water drainage system, he broke up in amazed laughter.

Water accumulation that turns into water buildup and obstructs the flow of air in the tubing is a little like an amygdala hijack – it strikes without warning.

Questions created the JoyKey freeing my playing from water.
Questions also freed me from amygdala hijacks.

Another valuable book about questions is: THE ONE THING by Gary Keller.

A quote from the book: ”When you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable … mastery is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a journey you experience.”

Go to www.thejoykey.com for testimonials from people like Tim Jones, principal horn of the London Symphony, pictures of JoyKeys installed on a variety of brass instruments and more information.

Buy your JoyKeys from your local trusted dealer or online at www.thejoykey.de

 

 

,over Two separate experiences, years apart, alerted me to the importance of optimizing my posture during playing. Sound quality was the guiding element.

I was teaching a young player who had a small, tight, and thin sound. He stood with his legs wide apart and feet splayed. I noticed that the leather soles on the OUTSIDE edges of his shoes were worn down.

So I asked him to imagine he was a kangaroo and had him jump up and down as high as he could several times in a row. His feet automatically came into a parallel position relative to one another.

To this day I’m not sure who was more surprised at the massive, positive change in his sound when he played standing in this position.

And still it took me thirty years before this foot position became my default position when standing and playing the horn.

The second experience was with Johannes Goritzki. When working together, he heard something hard in my sound, when I played louder than mf, that he didn’t like.

During the second (on a Friday afternoon) of two sessions a few days apart, he helped me reposition my left arm.  There is an excellent photo and description in Barry Tuckwell’s book “Playing the Horn” of the position which requires one to turn one’s head to the left a little.

The following Monday, during the first break of a Bruckner 2 recording session with Gunter Wand, three quarters of my colleagues asked me if I had a new horn!!!

That moment has remained with me to this day.

In the mean time, I have shared these two ideas with hundreds of other horn and brass players. And as recently as the 2019 Carnaval du Cor Horn Party, the resulting changes in the sound and ease of playing for the person involved continue to amaze and delight.

 

 The sound of the horn … your horn sound …

The first cellist to influence my playing was Brian Meddeman in Perth. When I was sixteen, he showed me HOW he practiced long tones on the open strings of his cello. He was able to influence and amplify the first harmonic such that the C string, for instance, would sound as the fifth above and show up on the tuning machine as a G instead of the C.

This involved keeping his muscles as relaxed as possible, especially his bow arm,  and working together WITH gravity. Most importantly though, it required intensive LISTENING – inner listening in my mind for the sound that I wanted to produce and outer listening to compare and correct.

Over the next two years, I often spent two or more hours a day holding out long tones until I could also get the fifth above the note I was playing to sound stronger than the actual note and also show up on my tuning machine.

Decades later it became clear that this obsessive long tone practice lay the foundation for a very rewarding international career.

It also helped me develop a wide range of sound colors that benefited my solo playing.

I am indebted to Hector McDonald for introducing me to the value of a daily warm up routine.

My routine has changed many times over the decades. I like to continually add new routines to keep me on my toes and keep a feeling of freshness in the practice room.

When I first began playing principal horn with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra as it was then called, the highest note that I could play reliably and securely was the top Bb. During the two auditions I did to get the position, I was lucky to nail the high C in the Siegfried Horn Call both times.

I also couldn’t do lip trills nor double or triple tongue.

During a Horn Symposium in Trossingen, Germany in 1980 I finally got to have a lesson with Hermann Baumann. It was a master class in a full hall. Mozart 4. When I only did a turn instead of trills in the first movement, Mr Baumann literally pulled the horn from my lips, and waving a finger at me, admonished: “NO,NO, NO!!! Mr Joy. Here we have to do ze trill. It doesn’t matter how. … with the finger, a shake … no matter … BUT Mr Joy … please … ze trill!!!”

I went the color of beetroot. Embarrassed doesn’t begin to describe how I felt. However, I pulled out Barry Tuckwell’s book “Playing the Horn” the following summer break and after six weeks of applied, daily forty minute practice sessions, lip trills were mine any time I needed them.

I had a very quick single tongue, so I neglected to develop my double and triple tonguing.

The demands made on the soloist in the Britten Serenade finally forced me to address this deficit in my playing. Again, about six weeks of applied practice using the da ga, da ga, and da ga da, ga da ga, da ga da, ga da ga patterns solved the issue.

I would also recommend that young players learn solfege.

 

 

Keeping a practice journal has many benefits. Later you have a special record of the work you put in and how you made progress. I also use mine to record insights that come during my practice.

Planning backwards from future important dates such as auditions, recordings, premiere performances etc. helped me to leverage my preparation time to achieve the best possible results.

Planning practice sessions and their content in advance has always helped me get more done than when I just winged it.

Jeff Smiley and BE

Before discovering Jeff Smiley and his book The Balanced Embouchure, a colleague introduced me to Jerome Callet.

Jerome studied other successful players and developed a system he called the Tongue Controlled Embouchure.

You can find out more from his website:
www.super-chops.com

Prof. John Erickson told me about Jeff Smiley during a phone call in 2008. After checking out Jeff’s website, www.trumpetteacher.net, I ordered his book and took it with me on my summer holidays in Norway.

My first experiences with doing the BE exercises were in a rented house alongside a fjord in Norway. Within three days it was clear that I was onto something very big and very,very exciting. We left the house after a week for another ten days traveling and I couldn’t wait to get home and get stuck into the exercises again.

I have a tendency to push limits – to see how far I can go or how far I can take or push things. With BE it was pushing my range up and down as far as I could go.

It took me four years, because at the time I was also dealing with focal dystonia, to build my range up to G3. Now that G3 belongs to me. It is there any time I want it. This makes playing the C3 very easy compared with pre-BE times.

The BE exercises work my facial muscles in a way that no other exercises do. The results that I have achieved from using this system have revolutionized my understanding of what it is the be a brass player.

Most notably, the exercises, the system have made me mouth piece independent. I can also easily switch between trumpet, trombone and horn and immediately make a good sound on all three instruments.

Working the BE routine lets me get into playing shape in three days after a long break. It used to take me two to three weeks when I was younger and in my prime.

Doing the BE exercises has made my embouchure far more efficient allowing me to extend my range in both directions and radically improve my flexibility and endurance.

I am convinced that this system will give young players the ability to play and make music on the horn in a similar way that cellists play their instruments.

The solo cello part of the second Shostakovitch Cello Concerto springs to mind.

Hans Kuijt invented the lefreQue. After I began using the lefreQue on my instruments some six years ago, we met and became good friends.

We’ve spent many hours talking about the acoustics of instruments and trying out different lefreQue configurations on many different instruments.

The big question always is how to improve instruments so that the sound, response and intonation are as excellent and optimal as possible.

The lefreQues on my triple have become an indispensable part of my equipment because of the almost magical difference they make to the response, sound and intonation.

Getting back into shape after a break takes far less time.

I can highly recommend trying out different sizes and materials to connect your mouthpiece to the lead pipe.

Once you’ve found a good fit for you and your instrument play on it for two weeks.

Then record yourself three times: firstly with the lefreQue installed, then without and finally with the lefreQue again.

Listening to the recordings will make things immediately clear for you.

Go to
www.lefreque.com
for more information.

In his excellent book, The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle talks about a lot about myelin.

I was intrigued. Another course, Whole Brain Power by Michael J. Lavery,  is also based on building up myelinated circuits in the brain to help deliver predictable and reliable physical results.

To test out the idea on myself away from the horn, I bought a hammer and some golf balls. This exercise consists of repeatedly bouncing the golf ball of the face of the hammer. I’ve settled for five hundred repetitions for each hand but have also done as many as fifteen hundred.

Whenever I demonstrate this exercise, there is always someone who wants to give it a try. It’s interesting to watch them give up very quickly.

It takes daily, regular practice to improve just as with playing an instrument.

http://www.wholebrainpowercoaching.com/

 

 

The cellist Johannes Gorizki, during one of the few but fabulous lessons he gave me, demonstrated how he practiced with almost no sound and minimal bow movement so as to be able to fully focus on his left hand.

With everything he showed me on the cello, he asked if I could translate it into “horn” language.

Because he was basically showimg me principles at work, I was able to apply those principles to my horn playing.

The principle is also applied to flying. When doing pilot training in a single engined aircraft, one exercise is to fly at an air speed just above where the plane would lose its lift and plummet out of the sky.

To do this the pilot has to use full flaps and raise the nose of the aircraft. A lightly held Joystick (as opposed to a tightly held one) provides valuable feedback. The famous German actor Heinz Ruhmann, who was also a keen pilot, talked about this on TV.

With horn playing there need to be adjustments made to the tongue position and the air compression in the lungs.

The way to do this is to listen to both your sound and your body. It is essential to remain relaxed and focus on the process.

Progress comes with making and correcting mistakes.

This kind of practice is slow, painstaking, tiring and immensely rewarding.

 

Developing my awareness of the Compound Effect and integrating the knowledge into my choices, habits and rituals has had a profound effect on the quality of my life in general and horn playing specifically, as well as the results I am able to achieve.

Darren Hardy’s book of the same name is high up on my book recommendation list.

One bite at a time. The elephant is, of course,  just a metaphor for any big project.

Playing the horn or any other instrument over one’s lifetime is a gigantic undertaking.

All the challenges, difficulties and setbacks can be broken down into small “bites”.

Constant, continual development and improvement can be tackled the same way.

Each small improvement in one area impacts the whole. Therefore, over time, you create exponential results.

Looking for principles in other disciplines and finding out how to apply them to your playing can be very instructive, rewarding and productive.

I’m fascinated by 3D printing and all of the marvelous opportunities for developing creative ideas it provides.

After a visit to tropical Northern Australia with my family in 1996, an idea for a practice mute crystalized in my mind.

3D printing and CAD software have finally given me the tools for developing my idea.

Now I’m on a steep learning curve. Which also means I’m making huge numbers of mistakes and learning from them.

Mr Murphy continues to visit my 3D printing efforts, sometimes for weeks on end.

Remaining focused on the process and learning from my mistakes (and those of others in the online forums) keeps my frustration levels low.

Just as with my lessons with Johannes Goritzki, I’m also finding that there are similar principles associated with 3D printing that also aply to my horn playing.

Buy a cheap printer and you’ll need to upgrade the hardware and software at some stage to obtain superior results.

We need to continually upgrade our unique hardware (brain and body) and software (mind) to improve our results.

Heat C° with 3D printing = air speed/delivery with brass playing. If the plastic filament or the printer bed don’t have the correct temperature, the prints fail.

If we don’t deliver the approriate air compression for delivering the necessary air speed to create the desired pitch, we mispitch.

The 3D printer build plate = our feet and contact to the floor.

The build plate on a 3D printer HAS to be 100% level for achieving a good print. If the first layer doesn’t work, the whole print is doomed.

The way we stand on our feet (or sit on a chair) is very often overlooked or casually dismissed as being unimportant.

Nothing is further from the truth. Gravity is always pulling our bodies downward. The better we align our bodies with gravity, the less energy we need to remain upright … and the lower the tension levels in our muscles holding us upright.

This is an area that can deliver massive payoffs when one’s individual ideal position is found and used.

Four days after a lesson with Johannes Gortzki in the early eighties where we changed one aspect of my posture, during the first break of a recording of Bruckner 2 with Gunter Wand, three quarters of my colleagues asked if I had a new instrument!

Pullies on 3D printers = tension levels in our bodies.

The tension levels on the pullies of a 3D printer need to be “just right”. That means not too tight nor too slack.

Same with our bodies. The difference here though is that depending on what pitch area we are producing, high – middle – low, we need to be continually adusting our tensions levels. But as far as possible only in those muscle groups used for delivering the necessary air compression.

Mostly we err on the side of too much tension.

Johannes Goritzki demonstrated this to me on the cello. When you have pushed a string down onto the finger board so the the desired pitch sounds, any more pushing (or excess tension in the finger(s)) will only detract from your flexibility and sound. It’s also wasted energy.

tWatching my 3D printer at work and studying how slicer programs can make the travel paths of the printing head more efficient has triggered lots of thoughts about co-ordination during my practice sessions.

When greater accuracy is required from the 3D printer, slower printing speeds are often necessary.

The co-ordination required for playing an instrument is highly complex and CANNOT be achieved with the frontal cortex.

Careful, slow, and deliberate practice is necessary to build up and myelinate the neural circuitry necessary to achieve the desired end results.

 Being patient and focusing on the process rather than results will speed up progress and deliver better reliability.

 

Actively and consciously choosing, installing and maintaining good habits and rituals saves time and energy. It also improves efficiency, quality, and productivity.

They become a part of who you are and how you live daily which helps to take consistent action.

Ivan Lendl was a master in this area. It’s worth studying how he went about things.

Here’s a book recommendation:

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhhig is a good place to start.

The elements that go into great brass playing are often simple but not easy. They have to be acquired through intelligent, diligent, persistent and deliberate hard work.

For instance, we have to develop unconscious control over moving air. This is both simple and complex. As with almost all other aspects of brass playing, different strategies and methods suit different people. You need to experiment and find what works best for you.

Over a long playing career, you might discover that you need to change how you do some things – that you need to find new solutions for old challenges.

 

 

IMHO lip trills is a misnomer. I think they are actually tongue trills.

Whistle a trill and observe your tongue. How is it moving? Up and down? Mine definitely does. What are your lips doing?

In June/July of 1981, after three years of sitting in the principal chair in the Cologne Radio Orchestra, I spent 40 minutes daily for six weeks doing the lip trill exercises in Barry Tuckwell’s book “Playing the Horn”.

Prior to that, I could not do them. This proved to be highly embarrassing during a master class with Hermann Baumann in September of 1980 at a horn symposium in Trossingen, Germany.

After those six weeks, lips trills have been an easy part of my technique requiring only very occasional brush ups every three or four years.

These exercises are also excellent flexibility exercises, especially the ones that require you to skip over an overtone when covering larger intervals.

Playing a brass instrument requires developing control over and being  …

– in control of your thoughts

– in control of your physiology

– in control of your feelings

– in control of your emotions

– in control of the pitch

– in control of your intonation

– in control of the quality your sound

– in control of the length of notes

– in control of your articulation

– in control of rhythms

– in control of dynamics

– in control of syncing with colleagues

– in control of your stage presentation

– in control of your connection with the audience

One thing we brass players can’t control is water buildup – we can only manage it and try to contain it …

unless you drain the water automatically.

Then it becomes irrelevant, a non-issue.

or do you choke?

Being able to excel under pressure is a skill that opens up doors to special opportunities.

For we musicians, it’s key to landing a top position in a top ensemble.

For me, it also opened the door to performing and recording concertos with excellent orchestras for CD and radio.

Preparation is the name of the game. Scientific research has clearly shown that the time invested – the number of hours – and the quality of the practice done are key indicators of whether we are likely to excel under pressure or choke.

Quality practice requires excluding as many distractions as possible.

One major, time-consuming and costly distraction for brass musicians is having to constantly think about and manually deal with water.

I know because I had to deal with water this way for over forty years – to be exact, from 1961 until early 2009 when I invented the JoyKey.

 

I also had water keys installed on all of my instruments including my natural horn and baroque horn.

Now all of my instruments have JoyKeys installed – fourteen on both of my Dieter Otto triples – and I practice and perform water free.

 

 

 

 

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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Monday is:
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My GOALS for today are:
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What can I do today to make myself more valuable?

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What 3 things did I do well today?
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Based on today’s performance, what one thing do I want to improve tomorrow?
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What one thing can I do differently to achieve the desired result?
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Tuesday is:
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Wednesday is:
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Thursday is:
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Friday is:
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Saturday is:
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My PURPOSE in learning and practicing today, Sunday is:
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What was good and new this past week? What do I want to add and improve next week? When the week goes exactly as I would like that would be like what?