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Fundamentals: Introducing an Important Topic
This article introduces a new series looking at fundamentals.
At the end of the spring semester this topic really came to weigh on my heart...
On the topic of a Horn Guru
Unless you don’t follow much social media, you have already heard that a certain hornist recently has seen major “negative change” in their career....
Accuracy Encyclopedia: F is for F Horn
There are so many topics that fall under the letter F that this is the first of four articles relating to “F” topics, with...
Mental Health and Horn Playing: The Impact of Private Lessons
For many years, I struggled with performance anxiety. When exposed passages came up in ensemble rehearsals and performances, I would get noticeably nervous. It...
The Upper Lip and your Low Range
Hidden way back in the site in articles from 2009 and 2010 are two articles that show something important about how the low range...
FERPA and the Modern Horn Studio
One thing that you might have observed if you follow several horn studios or horn teachers on Facebook or Instagram is the wildly different...
Mailbag: The Topic of Contradictory Information on Playing the Horn
Recently a great, extended question came in related to playing mechanics and all the contradictory information out there. The reader wrote,
… I’m finding myself...
When “more air” is too much air — and causes problems
Standard issue brass playing advice – for practically any problem! – is to use “more air.” For some brass teachers (especially low brass), breathing...
Review: The Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece. The one everyone has been waiting for
A new product on the market, and a game changer, is the Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece.
Mellophone is, sadly, a hugely polarizing topic of the...
35 Melodic Etudes by Meifred and Schantl — back in print, in 3 (6!)...
In 2016, as part of my original line of epublications, I was able to bring to print a group of 35 forgotten melodic etudes...