Size Matters; Big Horns, Little Hands
From the family archive.
A sister-in-law of mine once played French horn as a child. We like to swap stories now and then about her...
Alternative Hand Positions for Beginners
Compromised right hand positions
In my experience as a substitute band and orchestra teacher in the Phoenix area, I see a huge shortage of student...
Using the Karpman Drama Triangle as a Teaching Tool
UPDATED: Dec. 9th in the PM. Fixed broken resource links.
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Sometimes in our musical lives with colleagues, teachers and students, a dance-of-power can...
The Ego-Driven Music Teacher: Good or Bad? (I)
Teaching -- more art than science?
I occasionally lurk -- read, but do not participate in -- the various horn discussion groups. Interesting topics come...
Ericson Interview, part I: From orchestral player to professor
Periodically questions come in related to school projects. In this case, the questions were in an interview format for an advanced brass pedagogy and...
On Switching Students from Trumpet to Horn
In 1973 I started sixth grade. That year I also started playing trumpet and this very book was the very first book I used:...
Foulk on Sexism and Things to Not Say in a Master...
In updating the Events page recently I noted in the website for the 2012 International Women's Brass Conference an article by co-host Lin Foulk...
From the Mailbag: A Horn Curriculum
A question came in from a reader who is enrolled in a horn pedagogy class, and I asked if I could answer it...
The Space Between the Notes
Improvement -- a process of subtraction.
Music is the space between the notes.
This well-known quotation attributed to the Impressionist composer Claude Debussy can have many...
Horn is Tough for Band Directors to Teach
…especially if they did not have a decent methods class.
One of the projects I have had students do in the horn pedagogy class in...