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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:...

Technical Materials IV: Materials I am Still Looking For

First a question, did you notice any general category of technical material missing from the materials in the previous posts in this series? In the...

Technical Materials III: Uncommon Materials I Teach From

First, to add one big point in the previous post in this series, I don’t teach with a one-size-fits-all routine that is the same...

Technical Materials II: Standard Materials I Teach From

As mentioned in my previous post, in terms of materials I started out as I was taught but over the years began to experiment...

Technical Materials I: What I Studied From

Horn teachers tend to teach out of materials that they used as students with their own students up to the point that they find...

3 Stages of Beginning Music Lessons

Summer time is here - this is prime time for savvy music students to acquire music students of their own. This is a great...

The Provocative Teacher

I don't particularly like to do this, but occasionally I encounter a student that absolutely needs to be poked with a stick. Repeatedly. The...

Before Farkas: Preparatory Instructor for French Horn (1937) on the Single...

I am not sure what the exact background was of authors E. C. Moore and A. O. Sieg but they certainly were practical band...

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...

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...
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