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Hornmasters: More Recent Thoughts on the Warm-Up
While to this point this series has focused on older published sources on the horn, at this time we turn a corner toward three...
Random thoughts on ‘natural’ technique, embouchure study and sports analogies
Over the weekend I wrote a fairly lengthy response to comments posted on "‘Radical’ Embouchure Experiments, IV – Using a Visualizer" and thought that...
Hornmasters: The Exhale and Points of Resistance, Part I
In this series of Hornmasters articles a topic I have honestly not looked forward to addressing is that of the points of resistance. It...
Why I Support Unions
As a music student evolves into a professional, union membership will come into the picture. Unfortunately for myself, my initial steps on the union...
Hornmasters on Mouthpiece Placement
I changed my embouchure twice in college, the first time right after my sophomore year and the second during my Doctoral studies. It is...
6 Survival Tips on Dealing with Criticism
College is starting up again and for students new to college, this means a brand new environment and an unfamiliar horn teacher.
As with anything...
What Motivates Horn Players?
The question of motivations has long been of interest to me and closely relates to topics on which Bruce has written as well. Bruce...
Technical Materials II: Standard Materials I Teach From
As mentioned in my previous post, in terms of materials I started out as I was taught but over the years began to experiment...
Tonguing is a big key to everything, especially accuracy
The Public Service Announcement of the weekend is on the topic of tonguing. There is a lot of dogma on tonguing out there to...
Are Highly-Rated Horn Professors Overrated?
A few days ago I saw a link to an interesting article with the title "Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated." The article...