One Cause of Focal Dystonia in Brass Players
One of the most serious problems a brass player can face is that of an embouchure dystonia. Why it is such a hard problem...
A Study on Hand Position: A More Stable High Range and...
I found the link in Random Monday this week to a recent (2009) study very interesting, on the topic of hand position.
The title of...
3 horn right hand position topics
Today we have three short topics, all related to right hand position.
The Beauty Queen and the Puppet
In the summers at the Interlochen Arts Camp...
An Inside Look at Double and Triple Tonguing
Over a year ago the focus of an article on breaking the embouchure was an X-ray video of a horn player which showed the...
On Dealing with New Compositions with Bad Horn Writing
A recent discussion on the Facebook Horn People discussion group brings up the topic of living composers and how they write for the French...
“Tut” for a Short, Crisp Staccato? Yes
Scott Whitener in A Complete Guide to Brass notes that
The so-called tongued release does have its place…. Professional players often make use of it...
Stepping Up Your Mozart Horn Concerto Performance
A recent master class with Javier Bonet at ASU brought up some great topics in relation to Mozart 3, with the following two main...
Before Farkas: Anton Horner on Tonguing
Kendall Betts in a recent post to the “Ask the Pros” section of the IHS website pointed out a great quotation on tonguing from...
Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test
A week from today I will present a session at the 2012 Southwest Horn Conference with the title “Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to...
Gail Williams on Free Buzzing and Right Hand Position
A topic in a number of lessons this week has been right hand position. Something I referenced in these lessons was the quote in the following post,...