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...
More Debunking the F Horn for Beginners
Occasionally I like to peruse Google Patent Search, looking for cool and far-out concepts in horn design. A complete article last year uncovered some interesting...
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...
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...
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...
On Teaching (and Studying) Effectively
With the first semester of the University of Horn Matters horn pedagogy course nearly complete it seems like a good time to re-post the...
A Matter of Scale
Very recently I saw a quote posted that relates very much to a topic on my mind. It read,
When you play your instrument you...
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 Ego-Driven Music Teacher: Good or Bad? (II)
Continued from Part I
The ego-driven approach to music instruction reminds me of the used car salesman whose opening sale pitch was that their company...
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:...