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Homogenize Your Low Range

PUBLISHED: March 19, 2009, John Ericson

In The Brass Gym authors and tuba virtuosi Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan speak of the exercise they call “Schwarmaaaaaa!” as being excellent to “homogenize the sound you produce on your instrument.” It is a low range exercise, and in lessons this week I have found myself using this same term, as one big key [...]

Hermann Neuling

PUBLISHED: May 26, 2008, John Ericson

I love the low horn etudes by Hermann Neuling; I feel certain that these made a big difference in my playing. I have had most of my students work out at least a few of the 30 Spezial-Etuden fur tiefes Horn [30 Special Etudes for Low Horn] published by Pro Musica Verlag, and a couple [...]

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Two Things from a Trumpet Class

PUBLISHED: April 18, 2008, John Ericson

I often say that you can pick up a lot from other brass players. Soloist and Arizona State University Regents Professor of trumpet David Hickman gave on Wednesday a version of his presentation/demonstration for the ITG conference this summer for our Brass Area. In it there were two points that stood out for me. 1. [...]

Two Truths Horn Players Must Face

PUBLISHED: August 25, 2007, John Ericson

A couple thoughts from placement auditions for ensembles at ASU last week. 1. You really need to not miss the notes. Musicality, tone, and nuance are all great things, I love them, but in the end some listeners will think you are not that good if you can’t play for example the complete exposition of [...]

Working out the Low Range

PUBLISHED: June 2, 2007, John Ericson

In two very recent posts I wrote about how in my teaching this past week in Taiwan I had mentioned air and hand position issues quite often. A third popular topic is the low range. Low range work is critical to playing with a great tone. In the warm up you want to include plenty [...]

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Fingerings in the Low Range

PUBLISHED: November 14, 2006, John Ericson

A topic that comes up pretty often teaching is that of what fingerings to use in the low range, specifically in the range from F below the staff to the C-sharp below that. I teach a somewhat flexible approach to these notes, depending on the context, but generally recommend the B-flat horn for these pitches. [...]

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