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Triple Tongue with the Metronome

PUBLISHED: March 22, 2009, John Ericson

As a hornist you can go a while between times you perform works that you really have to triple tongue. Composers and arrangers tend to not call for triplet passages that are fast enough to require triple tonguing in horn parts. But occasionally they come up; you have to have this technique worked out. For [...]

The “Tut Tut” Style of Tonguing in Horn Articulation

PUBLISHED: January 12, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Clean articulations using tongue-stopping. With my very first baby steps on the French horn, my big brother gave me the Dennis Brain Mozart concertos album as a Christmas present. I wore out the vinyl on the record in a short period from repeated plays and ended up going through 3 or 4 more copies after [...]

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Articulation, Dennis Brain, Tips

Hickman on Tongue Arch

PUBLISHED: June 15, 2008, John Ericson

The topic of tongue arch and tongue position in the very high range came up for me recently, and in looking into resources at hand I again turned to Trumpet Pedagogy, a publication by David Hickman. While in this he presents a wide variety of systems and approaches to every aspect of playing (a strong [...]

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Articulation, David Hickman

Epstein on Tonguing and Vowel sounds

PUBLISHED: March 28, 2008, John Ericson

This week a topic that has come up in lessons is that of vowel sounds and articulations. The only teacher I had that talked about this much was Eli Epstein. One time it really sticks in my mind him making the point that if he missed a note it was because he did not tongue in [...]

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Articulation, Eli Epstein

The Count Down

PUBLISHED: December 5, 2006, John Ericson

The semester is almost over, but this post is not a count down to the end of the semester but about counting down to start pieces in an audition or jury. One really useful habit Eli Epstein suggested to me for audition excerpts was to count down in tempo to the start of the excerpt. [...]

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Articulation, Eli Epstein

Quote of the Week–Fox on Tongue Position

PUBLISHED: November 26, 2006, John Ericson

Here is a topic that is very important to horn players but little discussed, tongue position changes by register. We have discussed the fact that the tongue position goes gradually to the “eee” sound in the higher registers. However, when playing in the highest possible range of the instrument, that “eee” tongue position tends to [...]

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Articulation, Fred Fox

A Note on Breath Attacks

PUBLISHED: November 22, 2006, John Ericson

A topic horn players don’t talk about much is that of breath attacks, which came up in a lesson today. For reasons that are not completely clear to me it is sort of a controversial topic, one that some teachers don’t teach at all. The observation I would make in response to that is that [...]

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John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.