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The Kopprasch Op. 5 Etudes and a New Free “Low Horn” Version as a PDF!

PUBLISHED: August 14, 2011, John Ericson

Way back in 1997 The Horn Call published an article that I wrote on the history of the Kopprasch etudes, a version of which may be found online here. Also back a couple years ago I posted an article in Horn Matters that focused on the original 1832/33 version of the Kopprasch etudes, and that [...]

Professor Corno: Work Out Your Low Range

PUBLISHED: July 31, 2011, Professor Ichabod Corno

Our topic this week is the low range. You know who you are; your low range is not good enough. Why don’t you work it out? Maybe work it into your warm-up or something? Oh, it is hard to play, so you don’t work on it. That makes total sense — if you don’t want [...]

Ultimate Horn Technique and Ultimate Low Horn Arriving This Week

PUBLISHED: February 13, 2011, John Ericson

To make it official, I have had a push on for some time toward the completion of two new publications, Ultimate Horn Technique and Ultimate Low Horn, and they went to the printer on Friday. They have already been added to the sales page and sample pages are online as well. New books? On what [...]

Hornmasters: The Exhale and Points of Resistance, Part III—My Turn

PUBLISHED: November 21, 2010, John Ericson

To conclude this short series I will step away from old horn methods and focus in on my take on the exhale and points of resistance. There are two main problems commonly seen with the exhale. One is a hitch in the cycle of breathing. The other problem is over-conceptualizing the points of resistance. Both [...]

Breaking the Embouchure

PUBLISHED: September 7, 2010, John Ericson

A topic I recently promised to return to and expand upon was that of breaking the embouchure. It is another of those hot topics of horn playing. There are two overall trains of thought on this in the horn playing community. I am not going to quote it all out today but Frøydis Ree Wekre [...]

The Low C Video

PUBLISHED: April 6, 2010, John Ericson

I am asked occasionally about the videos on the left hand side of the current site design. Bruce picks these videos. One he recently posted I was very interested to see, a video of how the lips actually move playing a low C. The lip motion recorded is very similar to the motion seen in [...]

Tip of the Month: Fingerings in the Low Range

PUBLISHED: June 16, 2009, John Ericson

One interesting corner of The IHS Online, the website of the International Horn Society, is a section of tips of the month. I was recently asked to supply some new content for this area similar to some of the tips found in this site (for example my post on fingerings above high C). The first [...]

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