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Work on Your Warm-Up/Double Tonguing Scales and Arpeggios

PUBLISHED: November 28, 2009, John Ericson

The following post is a combination of two posts from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dating to 11/23/04 and 11/30/04. Recently on the horn list someone posted an item that was sort of critical of some unnamed teacher who required all their students to do the __________ (fill in the blank) horn warm-up. The [...]

The Warm-Down and Embouchure Health

PUBLISHED: April 22, 2009, John Ericson

Following up on my post from yesterday, there are a number of things that combined will help keep your embouchure healthy. One thing I learned to do was warm-down. The summer I learned to do this was the summer I was in the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, now known as the National Repertory Orchestra. I was [...]

Hill on What it Takes

PUBLISHED: December 3, 2008, John Ericson

A book we are working through with the Horn Pedagogy class is Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity, and Horn Performance by Douglas Hill. He touches on many topics in this book, but one that struck a chord with me this week is this quote from chapter 12, “In Preparation for College and a [...]

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Sometimes You Need to Change

PUBLISHED: November 7, 2008, John Ericson

A new blog I am foloowing is at Julia Rose’s Horn Page, the site of Julia Rose, third hornist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. This site, like mine, has been around for ten years! It is great to see this new addition to the site. The post I have been thinking about for several days [...]

Howe and other Beginner Methods for Horn

PUBLISHED: June 15, 2008, John Ericson

I was recently asked about beginner method books. This summer I am actually teaching two beginners and coming back to it I still like very much, for individual instruction, the Method for the French Horn by Marvin C. Howe. Elements of the text are dated (it was published in 1950) but I like very much how [...]

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Pivot

PUBLISHED: November 8, 2007, John Ericson

The topic from the Doug Hill master classes at ASU last weekend that has generated the most discussion in lessons this week is that of pivoting on the horn. While not utilized by all hornists, many players find a slight downward pivot to be helpful in obtaining the highest notes on the horn. The pivot [...]

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Douglas Hill, Gunther Schuller, Philip Farkas

Doug Hill Visits ASU

PUBLISHED: November 4, 2007, John Ericson

Yesterday Douglas Hill was at ASU for a day of master classes and sessions. We had a good crowd with over twenty area hornists joining the ASU horn studio for the sessions, including students from NAU and U of A. Many different things could be carried away from the day. For me personally it was [...]

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