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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 [...]

Three Times or a Thousand Times?

PUBLISHED: December 2, 2009, John Ericson

Another post from the original Horn Notes Blog, dated 1/20/05 and timely for those working on upcoming performances or auditions. When you are missing something in a passage that you want to play how many times should you play it in a practice session before you go on? I recently heard it seriously suggested by [...]

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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 [...]

Triple Tongue with the Metronome

PUBLISHED: March 22, 2009, John Ericson

As a hornist you can go a while between times you perform works that you really have to triple tongue. Composers and arrangers tend to not call for triplet passages that are fast enough to require triple tonguing in horn parts. But occasionally they come up; you have to have this technique worked out. For [...]

Don’t Put off Learning to Double Tongue

PUBLISHED: October 15, 2006, John Ericson

This weekend I got busy working on the five newly composed etudes by Douglas Akey that comprise the AMEA Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association regional and all-state festival audition materials. The ASU CMENC chapter (Collegiate Music Educators National Conference) wishes to record these to put online as models for horn players and teachers to [...]

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