TPTV Randall Faust

Randall Faust, highly regarded horn performer, composer, and professor, discusses his time studying with Arnold Jacobs. He initially heard about Jacobs while studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy during the mid-1960s. Over the next decade, many of his friends kept mentioning Jacobs’s teaching to Faust. Finally in 1978 he had his first lesson with Jacobs. Faust describes how Jacobs simplified his approach to playing. Solfeg. Jacobs had Faust sing the music. There was success in that. Jacobs continued to pursue Faust singing. Jacobs found what Faust could do well for it to teach or instruct what he did less well. Develop an excellent aural and musical model in the mind and let it be the teacher to the instrument in the hands. Kristian Steenstrup books “Blow Your Mind” and “Deep Practice Peak Performance”. Vincent Cichowicz. Focus on what you want to accomplish not what you do not do well. Daniel L. Kohut (Music Education researcher)(Musical Performance: Learning Theory and Pedagogy 1992) Victor Kress. Instrumentalist Magazine. Conceive. Imitate. Gallay etudes. Helen Kotas Hirsch. Arnold Jacobs: His Artistic and Pedagogical Legacies in the 21st Century. Thomas Jostlein. Jacobs often sang along with the student. The resonance of his voice was a wonderful model for brass playing. Roger Bobo. Place your focus on what you want not on how to do that. Phone call lesson…just hearing Jacobs’s voice over the phone was inspirational. Faust summarized by noting that in the end much of what Jacobs taught him “came back to basic stuff.” P.S. Faust describes Jacobs’s ability to identify, assimilate, learn, and understand new (to Jacobs) music being played in a lesson, and suggest musical ways forward.