On Learning the B-flat Horn Fingerings with Louis Stout
A topic that has come up in several lessons recently is that of learning B-flat horn alternate fingerings in the middle register where I...
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...
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 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...
On Mentorship and Recovery from Abuse
This photo and the memories associated with it are among my most prized possessions.
This is Milan Yancich, the man who saved my creative soul....
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...
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...
Followup to Systems View of Music Education
More on preparing for the real world.
Since posting a blog on applying an electronics education model to music performance education, I have found several...
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...
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...