El Camino Real is a problem I encountered

I presume that anyone involved in the performing art CCA category will definitely heard of this biannually competition, Singapore Youth Festival, aka SYF. And yes it’s a usual Friday again, and we were going to continue our work on the band’s choice piece, El Camino Real. A brief introduction on the piece is that it is composed by Alfred Reed and it’s about a Latin fantasy. I then proceeded to take out the piece and I attempted playing it on my French horn. For me it was a pretty hard piece with many high notes, slurring, tonguing, ascent, dynamic in music, it was a really difficult piece for me. The main problem I have is the high notes as it very difficult to play them on the French horn, u will need a lot of air and a powerful diaphragm to play and sustain the notes.

Especially, at the high tempo it is going it was really difficult to pitch and to be able to sustain the high notes. So guess the problem over here is the high notes I guess. And slowly my helpful seniors noticed my problem and they guided me to use more air and breathe in deeper so that I would be able to hit and pitch the high notes accurately. After always being reminded, I slowly saw some improvement in my playing standard and was feeling pretty accomplished with myself.

After this fruitful incident I finally grasped the technique into play the high notes on the French horn and I was feeling very happy. From this incident onwards, I learnt that with proper intelligence and perseverance, will I then be able to solve any problem.

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