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E-books for Horn

PUBLISHED: February 2, 2012, John Ericson

It has been reported that at Amazon.com E-books now outsell hard copy books. With that thought, there is a changing dynamic to the sales of horn books that the market is also adjusting to. As a representative sample, the below are highlights of what E-books are available now on Amazon.com. These are all Kindle E-books, [...]

Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test

PUBLISHED: January 8, 2012, John Ericson

A week from today I will present a session at the 2012 Southwest Horn Conference with the title “Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test.” The following was turned in for the program book: Many elements of a conventional approach to horn playing were put forth by Philip Farkas in his 1956 text The [...]

Hornmasters on Staccato, Part II: Fox, Berv, and Hill

PUBLISHED: December 8, 2011, John Ericson

Staccato tonguing is a problem for many horn students. In part I of this article Farkas and Schuller laid out their approaches to teaching this, approaches that sound right on paper but in reality are confusing to many readers. The problem being that they ignore a a physiological reality of staccato on the horn that [...]

Hornmasters on Average Tonguing, Part V: Reynolds and Hill

PUBLISHED: November 3, 2011, John Ericson

To conclude our series on tonguing in general we turn to two more recent American horn teachers. Verne Reynolds in The Horn Handbook ties the action of the tongue stroke to the air and that it all must happen in one, uninterrupted and automatic motion. The tongue stroke and air flow must be timed precisely. [...]

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Hornmasters: Attacks, a Prelude to Tonguing

PUBLISHED: October 11, 2011, John Ericson

Tonguing would seem on the surface to be a fairly uncontroversial topic. We have touched on this topic in this series of quotations from Classic horn methods but now it is time to turn more directly to the topic. Tonguing is a topic that every teacher has tips to offer. Looking at the big picture [...]

Hornmasters: Tips on How to Practice

PUBLISHED: July 2, 2011, John Ericson

An initial suggestion made by Farkas in The Art of French Horn Playing is to make a chart and plan your practice day. But the bigger picture is to practice what you need to practice to extremes. Get in the habit of practicing “extremes”…. Practice that which is just beyond your ability and progress will [...]

Hornmasters: More Recent Thoughts on the Warm-Up

PUBLISHED: April 28, 2011, John Ericson

After a bit of a hiatus we now continue the series of Hornmasters articles with more on the warm-up. This series has focused on older published sources on the horn but this time we will be looking at three more recent publications, all of which are in print and I recommend serious students of the [...]

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