On Practicing ‘Away from the Horn’
In last Wednesday's article I presented a few tips on balancing horn practice with a full-time job. For myself, keeping my chops in good...
Practice Records: A Reflective Learning Method, II
On practice records - continued from Part I.
One common type of reflective learning method used in educational settings is journaling -- the process of...
Break the “Rules” of Horn Playing
One thread between several of the recent posts is that in various ways the quotes point to spoken or unspoken “rules” of horn playing...
Interview: Laurence Lowe on Coming Back to Playing Horn from a...
One question that comes up often is how to best come back from a playing break, especially one of months or years. Of all...
Getting that ‘Wow’ Factor in Your Playing
Without a doubt one of the best practice techniques for improvement on a wind instrument is long tones. A teacher of mine once professed...
Scale Goals: High School Horn
Depending on the state you are in, regional honor band auditions at the high school level may have either recently happened or are coming...
Exercise: Scale/Flow Studies (I)
More flow/scale studies.
I am not sure where I picked these up - this printout is not copyrighted so I am making them available here....
Two Ways to Warm-up, and a Great Quote from John Barrows
Today in our horn pedagogy class the topic was the warm-up. One aspect of this that is little commented upon is there are essentially...
The Mid-low Register and Technique Development
An observation: there are horn teachers who don’t work with their students much on technical development. This is a shame. There really is a...
About those “Tutti” parts in some Mozart Horn Concerto editions
A question that comes up quite often is that of the "tutti" parts in some editions of Mozart horn concertos. As in, what is...