Thinking Over the Daily Regime
As you start the New Year it is always a good time to re-evaluate your daily routine. Two recent posts on other blogs caught...
Exercise for Till Eulenspiegel: Till the Cows Come Home
An exercise for Till Eulenspiegel
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On practically every "high horn" audition - and even on some low horn auditions - the...
Question from the Mailbag: How do I Improve my Trills and...
A questioner asks:
I'm a freshman in high school, and Im playing Mozart horn concerto no 2 in e flat major k. 417 for an...
Before Farkas: The Dufrasne (Mercier) Routine, Part II
As I noted in Part I, a new publication of the Dufrasne Routine was recently put out in The Complete Hornist series. In the acknowledgements editor...
A key to horn success: “Hook up” your Low Range
Every year after ensemble placement auditions at ASU thoughts will come to mind. I was really happy overall with the quality and results of...
How to Practice, Part I: An Overview
The basics of the basics.
An integral part of the daily practice ritual for any musician is calisthenics - the process of building physical and...
Farkas and a Blood Oath to use the F Horn?
The Nancy Jordan Fako book Philip Farkas & His Horn has quite a few little known facts and scenes from the career and training...
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...
Soft Repetition
Planning out a logical plan for improvement.
A common shortcoming when I overhear students practice is in preparing the tough licks.
Most realize that a key...
Developing a Summer Excerpt Project
A recent E-mail from David Wakefield reminded me a summer where I had a “special project,” an excerpt project, a great project for any...