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FERPA and the Modern Horn Studio
One thing that you might have observed if you follow several horn studios or horn teachers on Facebook or Instagram is the wildly different...
Rethinking how we teach horn – without Kopprasch
If you do a simple search of the topic “rethinking how we teach”, you will find a number of people reconsidering various aspects of...
Screen time versus your horn playing (and everything else)
This past week I noted an article, “Study: Too much screen time harmful on molecular level.” Likely you have heard that overall, it is...
Grad auditions, part IV. You do need to transpose, and other helpful asides
For the final component of my auditions for some years now I have settled into a fairly simple and short sight-reading passage. For grad...
Grad auditions, part II. New trends in solos
I don’t require any specific solos at ASU, and I found that, compared to prior years, there were a few changes.
Lots of Strauss II
I...
The most popular horn solo?
Recently I was looking at a Google stats report for Horn Matters and something jumped out at me. One horn solo in our collection...
Sabbatical Extra: A Yamaha Conversion Horn, and Revisiting the Ascending Third Valve, part 2
During my sabbatical semester from Arizona State I looked briefly at one of the horns I had worked on, how I could set it...
Bordogni-Gumbert-Ericson is back, in a second edition for all brass
In 2016 I put together, set in six different ranges for all brass instruments, a new edition of the venerable Bordogni vocalises. For my...
On teaching styles of horn teachers, and creativity
Not too long ago a colleague made an offhand comment about another teacher, saying they were a “method” teacher. That observation, and looking at...
More on The Art of (Slow) Practice
Back nearly ten years ago Bruce Hembd posted here a brief series (in two parts) on The Art of Practice:
The Art of Practice,...