Horn Using forScore recording cues for practice I have found it helpful and efficient to use forScore's audio capabilities to practice my concert parts along with an orchestral recording.
Horn Clarke First Study - chromatic scales I used Clarke's chromatic study to work out some hand and finger issues.
Horn Proposed: A (much) better octave designation notation for The Horn Call The Horn Call uses Helmholtz pitch notation, an objectively terrible system.
Horn Accuracy, Gardner's challenge, and Ericson's encyclopedia Gardner's accuracy challenge is stretching and training my brain in new ways.
Horn Now (September 2023) I'm very excited about having a chance to play Hanson 2, which keeps the horn section busy with rewarding parts in all three movements.
Horn To the high Cs David McGill, in Sound in Motion, recommends practicing all scales through the full range of the instrument.
Horn Intonation tendencies of combination fingerings How sharp are the various combination fingerings?
Horn Harmonic progression arpeggios There are a lot of different intervals in this exercise, and I must hear them accurately, in the moment, in order to play them accurately.
Horn Pitfalls of picking a horn-related domain name On a cruise ship vacation this month, I found myself once again unable to access hornjourney.com over a WiFi network.
Horn Now (July 2023) The Melrose Symphony and Concord Orchestra seasons will start just after Labor Day.
Horn Learning to be more musical I listened to recordings of the Schubert Lieder by Renée Fleming, and I picked out two to start with: Gretchen am Spinnrade and Auf dem Wasser zu singen.
Horn Focused, concrete improvement goals KBHC sessions prompted me to consider how I might be able to make my improvement goals more focused and concrete.
Horn Horn camp 2023 The Kendall Betts Horn Camp faculty are some of the best horn players and teachers in the country, and the staff members who make everything run smoothly are also fine players.
Horn Memorizing as a practice aid I started with the idea of memorizing just one phrase, and maybe only for a few minutes, for the purpose of practicing that phrase thoroughly.
Horn Detached observation I want to pay close attention to what I hear and what I feel, while suspending judgment and any immediate stop-and-fix reaction.
Horn Hearing what my mistakes are telling me I began to suspect that I wasn't hearing the octave intervals clearly in my mind.
Horn Now (June 2023) On the stand: Hanson 2 excerpt for the upcoming Concord Orchestra seating audition
