TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen on Fearless Performance, habit formation and how Canadian Brass is responding to the international quarantine

TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen on Fearless Performance, habit formation and how Canadian Brass is responding to the international quarantine

Author: Pedal Note Media April 14, 2020 Duration: 1:06:18

TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen on Fearless Performance, habit formation and how Canadian Brass is responding to the international quarantine. Horn performer, teacher, and magician Jeff Nelsen joins The Brass Junkies for the second time to catch us up on his efforts to make art and help others.

From his bio:

Having grown up on a Canadian pig-farm, Jeff Nelsen's multiple non-porcine professions show him to be living proof that if you want it enough, you can have any dream. Jeff is living his dreams out loud and fearlessly! Jeff's approach to life and life coaching is the same. When he teaches, he mentors. Every choice we make helps create what we ultimately share when we approach a job interview, audition, exam, product launch, or social gathering. It doesn't matter whether those choices are made while building or sharing our performance, choices matter...and we only ever choose fear or love. This website helps Jeff publish and provide his creative replacements to fear-based choices for you.

In this fun and lively discussion, we discuss:

  • Back wax
  • Jeff Conner is Andrew's Dad old
  • New Patreon effort, "Brass Junkies Sundays"
  • James Markey's Mom's comment
  • Andrew's wife's listening habits
  • Will we let Jeff talk?
  • Mood lighting
  • Jeff's student can fly
  • Jeff at American Band College with Lance last summer
  • Magic
  • Playing in lessons
  • Building a vegetable garden
  • Writing curriculum with a grad student
  • Training in Thirds
  • Building in Thirds
  • Briefing in Thirds
  • Shopping at Lowes
  • 1st third Build
  • 2nd third Share
  • 3rd third Be
  • Bringing the ding
  • Connection-full
  • Magic line performances
  • Shrinking the quality gap
  • Collecting opinions
  • Playing for Chalie Deval
  • The Illusion of Maturity
  • The "Enough or Not Enough" line
  • Non-emotional critique
  • Frustration and should
  • Mental scale structures
  • Mini golf
  • Protactor humor
  • The importance of sequence
  • The importance of habit/routine/ritual
  • Time takes time
  • James Clear
  • Push your butt up
  • Nacho Libre
  • Pass the Beer Nuts

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Hosted by Andrew Hitz, who spent years on the road as the tuba player for Boston Brass, The Brass Junkies dives into the lives and minds of world-class brass musicians. This isn't a formal lecture series; it's a conversation among friends, often with a rotating group of co-hosts joining in, that captures the unique spirit of the music community. You'll hear celebrated performers talk about the gritty realities of practice, the thrill of performance, and the bizarre, funny stories that happen offstage. The discussions roam freely from deeply technical advice and career insights to outright hilarious anecdotes, mirroring the full spectrum of experiences in the music business itself. Produced by Pedal Note Media, each episode of this podcast feels like pulling up a chair in the green room, offering an authentic and unvarnished look at what it really means to be a professional musician. For anyone fascinated by the art and the life behind the brass, from the trumpet to the tuba, this series provides a consistently engaging and human perspective.
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