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It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
This is one good reason for visiting web sites like Horn Matters, reading horn-related texts or listening to recordings. This knowledge is empowering; it fills you up and makes the likelihood of tipping over less likely.
In my first lessons with a big-time, well-known teacher I was vastly under-prepared. An empty bag really.
A valuable lesson was learned from that youthful laziness – the best lessons depend on the student being prepared.
Veteran Phil Collins sums it up nicely in Free Lessons:
Again, your responsibility is to come prepared with tempos, fingerings, transpositions, etc. well before that big lesson. Everything on the page is your job to prepare. Don’t waste time and money having the teacher tell you what you could have learned on your own.
Do your homework before you see the coach. Who knows? Maybe the coach will be so impressed that you’ll get a free lesson!
