John Ericson

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

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

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

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

Anyone who has read Farkas knows he was quite concerned with pressure and not using too much pressure into the high range. As a...

Earlier this year I had a couple interactions with conductors (not in Arizona) that gave me pause. One conductor, on a work that was...

As noted in part II of this series, most horn and brass teachers that disagree with elements of the Farkas approach to the embouchure...

I have begun a project that involves closely reading a number of horn method books this summer. While I don’t at this point want...

Derek Wright posted recently on something a teacher (not me!) said to him in a first lesson. The teacher asked him “do you have...

One thing that was interesting after my surprise performance of Misty on the Mellophonium at the banquet at the IHS symposium (also described in...