A musician tuning is making private precision available to a shared result.

Preparation is usually solitary even when the result is collective. The fiddly, unwatched minutes of getting one instrument right are not performance and nobody claps for them, yet the sound of the whole group depends on them. Shared work rests on a lot of private accuracy that never gets seen. An audience hears only the total.

Think about the unglamorous preparation your own part depends on and give it the time it asks for. And when a group effort goes well, ask who did the quiet setting-up beforehand. Naming that work is one of the few ways it ever gets noticed.