July 27, 2009 by John Ericson

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How to Become a Horn Expert I


How do you become great at the horn, or at anything? I was thinking about this recently and came up with five major points. This is part one of a series for this week

1. Be curious.

A lot of the things I have learned on horn relate directly to general curiosity. Originally it was more like how do you play high notes? Stopped horn? How do I make the music that sounds like the records? How would a new mouthpiece feel? As I got better for me it also began to include more stuff about equipment, history, etc. One thing I got to wondering about sitting in orchestra was the question what would this have sounded like in the original orchestras that played this? What were the original instruments like to play? This led me into a lot of the horn research I did. Your personal list of things you could be curious about could go on and on. Use your curiosity as a motivator.

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