John Ericson, 03/28/2008
Pet Peeve: Know Your Tempo
Horn teacher pet peeve no. 3: students who don’t know their tempo. By this I mean know what metronome mark you are shooting for in any work you are serious about learning. Because if you don’t know your metronome mark it basically says to your teacher that you have not worked the rhythm of the [...]
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Stick With It
I have had several students take professional auditions lately and have one general piece of advice: stick with it. While you have to go into any audition to try to win, audition preparation is in fact cumulative. You will be more consistent after several serious audition experiences and you will develop more of a sense [...]
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Listen to Recordings
Another pet peeve for many horn teachers is horn students that don’t listen to recordings. While I would like to think that all horn teachers share this pet peeve, actually, there are a few horn teachers that don’t push their students to listen to recordings and want them to develop their own interpretations independently through [...]
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Tuben in Hollywood
Episode 42 of The Mellocast is an interview with film music librarian, Karen M. Smith. Proving that the show is not “all mellophone all the time,” early in the podcast was an interesting discussion of current Wagner tuba use in Hollywood. The upcoming movie Speed Racer has “tuben all over the place” and much use [...]
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Know your Foreign Musical Terms
Over the next few weeks I will have a series of “pet peeve” posts. The first in this series is on foreign musical terms. My peeve is not with the terms themselves, it is with music students in general not making the effort to understand clear instructions of composers. I would say that virtually every [...]
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Dissertation Acknowledgments
Having looked at a lot of dissertations and research papers, the acknowledgment page is always an interesting one to look at. They can range from a laundry list of people and even pets to a fairly dry, academic list. This semester is the first one for me at ASU when I have had a student [...]
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A Horn History Timeline
I was checking the great University of Iowa horn website tonight and found a link to a site I had not visited in quite some time (probably only when it was in development last year), www.hornhistory.com. It is a website that is built around a timeline of horn history, and is well worth a visit, [...]
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