Home Authors Posts by John Ericson

John Ericson

967 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
Read John Ericson's bio for more information.

A Wrap-up of the 1989 SWRHW

The last session that I have a video of in the archive of the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop is the master class with...

Natural Horn at the 1989 SWRHW

The fourth of five archive videos I just converted to DVD from the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop is of the session by Kristin...

Sessions with Saxton and Sellers at the 1989 SWRHW

The next two sessions that I have VHS tapes of from the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop are by Earl Saxton and Jacquelyn Sellers....

A Master Class with Philip Farkas at the 1989 SWRHW

One of the guest artists at the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop was Philip Farkas. Among the studio materials I inherited from then ASU...

Break the “Rules” of Horn Playing

One thread between several of the recent posts is that in various ways the quotes point to spoken or unspoken “rules” of horn playing...

Farquharson Cousins on the Embouchure and Mouthpiece Pressure

Offering yet another approach to the setup of the embouchure is Farquharson Cousins in On Playing the Horn, which was published in 1983 with...

Brophy on Pitch Bending

One topic I get asked about, as it is one of the exercises in The Brass Gym, is that of pitch bending. I think...

Hornmasters: Berv on Building Endurance

Following up on the post from yesterday, I really do find the “response” of Harry Berv to The Art of French Horn Playing interesting....

Hornmasters: Harry Berv on Fingerings

One name not too familiar today in horn circles in that of Harry Berv. He wrote a very interesting horn method, published in 1977,...

Using Too Much Pressure? There’s a Device for That

Anyone who has read Farkas knows he was quite concerned with pressure and not using too much pressure into the high range. As a...
1...848586...97Page 85 of 97
6,842FansLike
1,314FollowersFollow
© 2009 Horn Notes Edition LLC