The Warm-Down and Embouchure Health
Following up on my post from yesterday on avoiding chop problems, there are a number of things that combined will help keep your embouchure...
Fun With Scales; The Building Blocks of All Western Music
The Art of Practice, Part III.
Not much is known about the ancient philosopher, mathematician and cult leader Pythagoras but we do have him...
Homemade Mouthpiece Buzzing Tool
The French Horn Articulation Resistance Tool.
Buzzing on the mouthpiece is something that I would call a "concentrated" method. Even a small amount done daily...
Exercise PDF: Harmonics (I)
Up and down the overtone series.
With many beginning and intermediate players, they start playing a piece of music beginning on the wrong note, and...
Rethinking the Warm-up, part 2
Recently I was pointed toward some relatively recent research that indicates that a less strenuous warm-up gets better results. For example, this article from...
Rethinking Your Warm-Up for Better Results
At an extreme, warm-up routines come in two flavors: etched in granite, or free-form.
This past weekend at Arizona State we hosted Prof. Jeffrey Agrell...
An Interpretive Approach to Siegfried’s Horn Call
A good place to start when studying the horn calls from Siegfried or the Rhine Journey is within the character of Siegfried himself....
Change your tuner, change your life — and warming up to...
There are a number of tuners out there that go beyond the old basic Korg tuner that has been so standard for years. Students...
Technique builder: Take the Clarke 120 Challenge
Back last year I posted a technique packet PDF, and among the exercises it contains a version of the Clarke second study, a Classic...
Have more than one tuner
Not everyone out there is a fan of tuners. This fall I have been working on a specific warmup routine to improve intonation, and...