SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Bruce Hembd’

April 3, 1986

PUBLISHED: April 3, 2010, John Ericson

A post saved from the original Horn Notes Blog, posted first on 12/26/04. In terms of horn playing 1986 was a good year for me. Just before Christmas this year (2004) I was at my parents house sorting out some stored items from the 1980s and in particular April 3, 1986 was in retrospect a [...]

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General

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Bruce Hembd, David Hickman

Things Horn Teachers Say: Ineffective Teaching

PUBLISHED: June 26, 2009, John Ericson

Derek Wright posted recently on something a teacher (not me!) said to him in a first lesson. The teacher asked him “do you have a backup plan?” Like Derek I have taken lessons with quite a number of teachers and can remember things certain teachers said pretty specifically. Some communicate pretty differently than others for [...]

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Pet Peeves

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Bruce Hembd, Derek Wright

Take a Survey on Accuracy

PUBLISHED: June 24, 2009, John Ericson

One of the great things about teaching at a school such as Arizona State is the opportunity to work with talented students on interesting projects. One such student is Nathan Stark, who is nearing the completion of his DMA. For his project we decided to focus in on the topic of accuracy on the horn [...]

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Bruce Hembd

Pausing to Reflect

PUBLISHED: June 16, 2009, John Ericson

With the horn symposium behind me I head into the summer with the hope of completing a large writing project. More on that another day, but this is a good time to pause and reflect in general. One thing that was interesting for me at this symposium especially is I realize better the impact my [...]

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Bruce Hembd

High Speed Video of How the Embouchure Works

PUBLISHED: March 3, 2009, John Ericson

A major project for me over roughly the past six months has been a rethinking of how the embouchure works. Thus, I would offer a major hat tip to Bruce Hembd of the Horndog Blog, he just posted a great video link that clarifies some elements of how the embouchure really works. The video from [...]

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Bruce Hembd, Philip Farkas

Yancich on the Release of Notes

PUBLISHED: October 8, 2008, John Ericson

A recent post by Bruce Hembd is a most interesting one with respect to articulations and in a larger sense accuracy. Bruce studied with the late Milan Yancich at Eastman, a figure I have blogged about in other posts previously. I picked up a number of pointers from him in perhaps a half dozen lessons, [...]

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Bruce Hembd, Milan Yancich