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2020-06-03 A Little Hope
2020-05-27 David Cooper On Auditions and Warming Up.
2020-05-20 Some Social Distancing Distractioning
2020-05-13 Seth Godin on Boredom
2020-05-06 (Over-)Commiting and Learning Under Stress
2020-04-29 Review: Messina Mouthpiece Pouches
2020-04-22 The BEST Etude Collections for French Horn
2020-04-15 Warm-up (and learn to practice) with Solo Training
2020-04-08 The BEST Solo Collections for Middle and High School Horn Players
2020-04-01 Quarantine Projects
2020-03-25 Transposition: Useful or Waste of Time?
2020-03-18 Thoughts About Online Music Teaching
2020-03-11 Pathways Talks with Lukas Horns' Dan Vidican
2020-03-04 Classical Music: Why It Matters
2020-02-26 Lots of music, little time: Organizing Practice
2020-02-19 Stefan's Big Secret
2020-02-12 Horn Shops and "Custom" Horns
2020-02-05 Learning: The Inner Game Method
2020-01-29 The Two Types of Technique
2020-01-22 RIP Barry Tuckwell
2020-01-15 ScanScore Review: Scan and Edit Your Digital Music
2020-01-08 You Are What (and Who) You Listen To
2020-01-01 Make 2020 the Year of Mental Models
2019-12-25 Practice Triage: Sorting Out Your Practice
2019-12-18 Practicing Auditions [Step by Step]
2019-12-11 Learning Strategies: Block vs. Interleaved
2019-12-04 Why You Shouldn't Have (One) Warmup Routine
2019-11-27 Dropping A Dime On Mouthpiece Measuring
2019-11-20 Most Effective Learning Style Feels the Worst
2019-11-13 Memorizing =/= Learning
2019-11-06 Eldon Matlick and A New (To Me) Tuning System
2019-10-30 MobileSheets Pro Tips
2019-10-23 Practice Recipe: 3 Parts Focus with 1 Part Distraction
2019-10-16 When NOT to Practice
2019-10-09 Pre-Performance Rituals
2019-10-02 New Horn Studies from John Ericson
2019-09-18 Trigger Phrases to Improve Performance
2019-09-11 Outdoors with a Tablet: Pros and Cons
2019-09-04 Cleaning and Maintenance Page Updated
2019-08-28 Prepare for Fall Band Camp (and Auditions!)
2019-08-21 Simplify Practice Decisions: The Practice Menu
2019-08-14 2019-20 KY All-State Etudes Up!
2019-08-07 It's not just a punchline - the "Probability-Based Drummer" is a real thing.
2019-07-31 Calm vs. Nerves vs. Terror: Which is Best?
2019-07-24 New Page: A Mellophone Starter's Guide
2019-07-17 Book Review: Horn Technique by Jeffery Agrell
2019-07-10 Need to Rise and Shine? Reset Your Sleep
2019-07-03 More Scale and Arpeggio Resources!
2019-06-26 Self-Talk: Criticism vs. Compassion
2019-06-19 Warming Up - Summer Edition Changes
2019-06-12 Epstein Resources: Breathing, Support, Practice
2019-06-05 (More) Extended Scales and Arpeggios!
2019-05-29 Some Humor For Your Next Practice Break: 2SetViolin
2019-05-22 Hooked on (Horn) Phonics
2019-05-15 Great Web Resource for Brass Players
2019-05-08 You're Only As Good As Your Ears
2019-04-24 New Page: Extended Scale Exercises
2019-04-17 No Time To Practice
2019-04-03 Deciding On A College? 2 Things To Consider
2019-03-27 Top-Notch Resource for Any Horn Ensemble
2019-03-20 Password Security Is No Joke
2019-03-13 New Podcast for Music Education
2019-02-27 Teaching Musical Interpretation: Learn, Listen, Count
2019-02-13 Upgrade to Digital Music Reading: New Stand!
2019-01-30 How Important Is Intonation? It Depends.
2019-01-16 The gate is open. Don't wait to be chosen
2019-01-09 Yo-Yo Ma and Doug Yeo on Changes and Choices
2018-12-26 Do More in Less Time: 80/20 Your Practice Next Year
2018-12-12 New Bootcamp Article: Lip Trills
2018-11-28 2018 Music Notation Software Options
2018-11-14 Performance Day Preparation Template
2018-10-31 3 Quick Tips to Reduce Nerves in Performance and Auditions
2018-10-17 Wiseman Horn Case Review
2018-10-03 Performance Anxiety: Classical vs. Pop Musicians
2018-09-26 2018 KY All-State Horn Clinic Notes
2018-09-26 A Single Habit Now Can Save You Lots of Stress Later
2018-09-19 Practice Roadblocks? 2 Quick Fixes to Try First!
2018-09-12 3 Famous Tuba Players Talk Audition Preparation
2018-09-05 Be Your Own Motor
2018-08-29 Another [Great] Julie Landsman Interview!
2018-08-22 2018-19 All-State Horn Etudes Out (+Recordings and Tips)
2018-08-15 Book Review: The War of Art by Steve Pressfield
2018-08-08 The Importance of "Yet"
2018-08-01 IHS 50th Symposium is THIS WEEK!
2018-07-25 Scales, Caring, and Cursing
2018-07-18 App Review: Hz Intonation
2018-07-11 Can You Practice on Vacation WITHOUT Your Instrument?
2018-06-27 Some Links for Summer Horn Reading
2018-06-20 Interview(s) with Julie Landsman
2018-06-13 Looking to Remove Bad Habits? Two Strategies You May Not Have Tried
2018-06-06 New Custom Horn Model - Lukas/Pinc Horn
2018-05-16 Keep Your Face in Shape - Embouchure Health Thoughts
2018-05-02 Online Horn Master Class Resource
2018-04-25 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Horn Hangout
2018-04-18 What do "playing musically" and the mellophone have in common?
2018-04-11 20+ Warm-up Routines Available Online
2018-04-04 New Page: Tuning the French Horn
2018-03-28 Basic Gear for Recording
2018-03-21 Being (or Feeling) Rushed Can Hurt Your Practice
2018-03-14 Don't want to practice? Listen to this instead.
2018-03-07 No time to practice? Here's how to do it!
2018-01-08 Why the (practice) struggle is real (and good)
2018-01-02 Up Your Intonation Game With Drones
2017-12-25 A New (To Me) Resource for Brass Players
2017-12-11 [UPDATE: Not Dead Yet] Moosewood Mouthpieces: Closed
2017-11-05 Reducing Frustration and Rage Quitting During Practice
2017-10-31 Practice Strategy: Use Ship Dates to Optimize Practice Time
2017-10-18 Electronic Music Readers - An Update
2017-07-29 2017-2018 All-State Etudes (+Recordings and Tips)
2017-07-24 Electronic Music Readers - iPads, Android, and More
2017-07-10 New French Horn Boot Camp Page: Fingering Charts
2017-06-10 The Theory Behind Stopping The Horn
2017-06-02 MuseScore + IMSLP = OpenScore
2017-05-21 Why You Should Make Purposeful Mistakes In Practice
2017-04-23 Tradition vs Progress in Horn Pedagogy and Playing
2017-04-20 Updated: Choosing a Mouthpiece page
2017-04-10 Minimum Viable Warm-up - Never Feel Unprepared for Playing!
2017-03-18 New John Williams/Steven Spielberg Album Out
2017-03-16 Not Even Horn Mouthpieces Are Safe From Internet Scams
2017-03-09 In a Practice Slump? This 5-minute Video Can Help
2017-02-19 Update: French Horn Right Hand Position Page!
2017-02-10 French Horn Music Page Updated!
2017-01-06 App Review: TonalEnergy
2016-12-29 Make One Note Count/Make Every Note Count
2016-11-27 The End of November Means...Time for Solo and Ensemble!
2016-11-20 Make Practice More Enjoyable in One Simple Step
2016-10-25 Fix Your Focus, Improve Your Playing
2016-10-03 Erik Ralske Interview: Playing in the Met and the Dangers of Over-Hydration
2016-09-18 New Horn Exercises, Peak Performance books, and more!
2016-08-23 New Metronome Practice Idea: No Instrument Necessary!
2016-08-16 Kendall Betts, Former Principal Horn of MSO, Dies
2016-07-21 Quick Feedback From Teachers May Slow Progress
2016-07-08 The Beginnings of a New Chamber Ensemble
2016-06-18 IHS Symposium: Day 5
2016-06-17 Horn Symposium - Day 3 and 4
2016-06-15 Horn Symposium Report: Day 1 and 2
2016-06-07 Timothy Jones & LSO Section Horn Hangout
2016-06-02 Tony Halstead Horn Hangout
2016-06-01 VerMeulen Video: Six Quick Fixes to Horn Playing
2016-05-25 New Page: Buying a Horn
2016-05-16 Horn Nerd: Bumper Material Edition
2016-05-01 Increasing Productivity in Practice
2016-04-28 Sydney Opera House Joins Google Cultural Institute with Cool 360 Video
2016-04-13 Google Wants You to Practice More
2016-04-08 App Review: Tunable
2016-03-25 App Review: ClearTune
2016-03-16 Google & Bing make finding a metronome even easier!
2016-03-04 Horn-Timpani Interaction: Confirmed
2016-02-29 Why You Should Use a Practice Log
2016-02-26 App Review: Official Quality Tones App
2016-01-24 Can A Model Performance Improve Your Practice?
2016-01-15 New Horn Model Part II: Amazon is Bad at French Horns
2015-12-26 Transpostion - The Skill That Keeps on Paying
2015-12-18 Give Your Horn a Gift - Clean It!
2015-12-01 Google Cultural Institute Brings Live Arts to Millions
2015-11-29 French Horn Gifts
2015-11-08 New! Old vs New Bass Clef & Choosing a Mouthpiece
2015-10-21 What if a French horn and disco hooked up in a retirement home?
2015-10-19 PSA: Clean Your Horn!
2015-10-02 New Page: Must-Have French Horn Recordings
2015-09-22 Horn Player Problems, Vol. 1
2015-09-19 KY All-State: Beethoven #9 - Scherzo
2015-09-09 Teaching Nightmares, Pt. 1
2015-09-05 Michael Thompson: Elegant Simplicity of Horn Playing
2015-08-29 Ear Training - Work Your Ears!
2015-08-24 Preparing for All-State - Fundamentals
2015-08-13 KY All-State Horn Excerpt #2
2015-08-13 KY All-State Horn Excerpt #1
2015-07-25 Summer Project #1: Oils and Greases
2015-06-24 39 Tips for Rehearsal Etiquette
2015-06-13 Horn Nerd: Case Edition
2015-06-02 How Long Should I Practice?
2015-05-22 New Page: French Horn Transposition
2015-05-10 New Horn Model Discovered!
2015-05-02 Avoid Frustrations in the Practice Room
2015-04-27 Horn Playing From the Inside
2015-04-20 The Downside of the Triple Horn
2015-04-16 Apps for Musicians
2015-04-14 New Toy - Zoom H4N
2015-04-06 How Not to Engrave Parts
2015-03-20 Know your Right (Hand Position)
2015-03-13 Reviving a mute
2015-02-28 The Importance of Articulation

Personal [10] ↑

2016-12-27 My Top Podcasts of 2016
2016-06-07 New Top Gear: (Not)Brilliant, But (Not)Rubbish
2016-05-12 New Top Gear: Premiers May 29/30
2016-02-13 Girl Scout Cookies: The Great Divide
2016-01-20 Top Gear Host Releases Final Bombshell
2015-12-11 Alton Brown on Amazon Unitaskers
2015-05-22 First World Problems, Vol. 1
2015-05-05 Indiana Groans
2015-04-07 Animals...Animals Everywhere
2015-03-05 Winter Strikes Back...Again

Tech [118] ↑

2020-05-29 May 2020 Tech Roundup
2020-05-22 Securing Your Online Accounts: Use 2FA
2020-05-15 Selling on Amazon? Maybe Don't
2020-05-08 New Twist on Old Banking Scam
2020-05-01 Critical iOS Mail Vulnerability [MAYBE?]
2020-04-24 April 2020 Tech Roundup
2020-04-17 Windows 10 Privacy Settings for April 2020
2020-04-10 FBI On Ransomware Impact & Protection (6 steps to take)
2020-04-03 Zoom Security
2020-03-27 March 2020 Security/Privacy Roundup
2020-03-20 FCC/ISPs Acknowledge Necessity of Internet
2020-03-13 New Mexico Sues Google Over Student Data
2020-03-06 Windows 10 Update Deletes Data
2020-02-28 February 2020 Tech Round-Up
2020-02-21 Jumpshot Bricked
2020-02-14 MS Office "Features" and Sync
2020-02-07 Internet of (Useless) Things
2020-01-31 The Galaxy Fold, Folds
2020-01-24 New Vulnerability Targets Cable Modems
2020-01-17 Old Browser Scam Has A New Twist
2020-01-10 Top Security Stories from the 2010's
2020-01-03 Productivity Apps: 2020 Edition
2019-12-27 Avast Spying On Users
2019-12-20 Bleak Outlook for Flagship Androids in 2020
2019-12-13 "Upgrade" to Win10 for FREE
2019-12-06 Chromebook Stylus Fixes/Replacements
2019-11-29 Pixel 4 Reviews: A(nother) Google Fail?
2019-11-22 New Malware Strikes Biggest WordPress Vulnerability
2019-11-15 ISPs Lying About DoH
2019-11-08 Even Computers Need A Fan
2019-11-01 Code That Has Changed History
2019-10-25 Google Giveth And Taketh, 2019 Edition
2019-10-18 Google Will Automatically Delete Your (Worthless) Data
2019-10-11 MacOS/iOS Updates
2019-10-04 iOS vs Android: No Winner Here
2019-09-27 Monitor Password Breaches with Firefox Monitor
2019-09-20 Digital Music Reader: Buying Guide [Updated Sept 2019]
2019-09-13 Google Calendar Spam is 2019's Junk Mail
2019-09-06 So I Got Sidetracked...
2019-08-23 Understanding Email Headers
2019-08-16 Bluekeep: Bad to Very Bad
2019-08-02 The Quest to Cripple Encryption
2019-07-26 Amazon (Also) Wants Your Data
2019-07-19 Raspberry Pi and USB-C: Broken(ish)
2019-07-12 Why UX Matters
2019-07-05 Facebook Study: New Name, Old Violations
2019-06-28 Mac Pro On A (TINY)Budget = RasPro
2019-06-21 Google Kills Its Tablets (Again)
2019-06-14 News Consumption: One-Off vs. Subscription
2019-06-07 Another One Bites The Dust: Nest is Dead
2019-05-24 Forget Floods and Earthquakes - Ransomware Takes Out Cities
2019-05-10 Browser Notifications Bugging You? Here's How To Turn Them Off
2019-05-03 Facebook: Dumb or Evil?
2019-04-26 (New) Trust Issues With Google
2019-04-19 WinRAR Vulnerability Leaves Millions of Users at Risk
2019-04-10 Why You (Yes, You) Need A Website
2019-03-06 Site Reveals Dangers of Free Android Apps
2019-02-20 Social Media Paranoia: The New Normal?
2019-02-06 Apple vs. Facebook vs. Privacy (and Google too!)
2019-01-23 The UnGoogleification Continues: A New (To Me) Chrome Alternative
2019-01-02 My 2019 Productivity Setup
2018-12-19 Apple's New iPad Port Adds to USB-C Mess
2018-12-05 2 New(ish) Options for Cell Plans: Never Overpay Again
2018-11-21 FCC Comments Show Nuanced Net Neutrality Understanding
2018-11-07 Update Your Router [NOW!]
2018-10-24 Chrome Takes A(nother) Step Back From Privacy
2018-10-10 Google's October Hardware Event
2018-07-04 Life with a Chromebook - 1 Year In
2018-05-30 My favorite productivity apps: Spring 2018
2018-05-23 Separating Yourself From Google - A Guide
2018-05-09 Android Tablets - Finally Dead?
2018-02-12 How Google Knows So Much About You (Hint: It's your Android phone)
2018-01-12 Android to iOS: Why I Switched
2017-12-26 Google Maps vs. Apple Maps
2017-10-23 Stay Away from Project Fi - Maybe
2017-06-08 Google Fiber Update - Starting SOON!
2017-05-31 Gadget Deals - Record Yourself, Inexpensive Alexa, Upgrade Your Car
2017-05-17 Google I/O 2017
2017-05-15 WannaCry Virus: What You Should Know
2017-05-09 New Amazon Echo Devices: Echo Look and Echo Show
2017-02-13 Google Fiber in Louisville - Update!
2017-01-05 MKBHD Video - USB-C Made Interesting?
2016-12-13 Tired of Facebook Bubble? Break Free With RSS Feeds!
2016-10-22 Google Assistant vs Siri: Video
2016-10-18 Google Pixel Phone Initial Reviews Released
2016-10-12 Project Fi Group Plans Are Live!
2016-10-04 New Google Hardware: Phones, Router, VR, Assistant, and More!
2016-09-11 Google's Pixel C - Better With Android 7.0?
2016-09-08 Requiem for the Headphone Jack: An Android User's Perspective
2016-07-11 USB Type C Chargers Reviewed: Charge into the Future (Safely)!
2016-07-08 Android Apps on Chromebook - Video
2016-07-01 How Much Does Google Know About You?
2016-06-29 OK-Google: A Complete List of Google's Voice Commands
2016-06-23 Google Prompt Makes 2-Factor Authentication Easier
2016-06-08 Android on an iPhone - It's Happening (Sort of)
2016-05-30 Android Apps on Chromebook: A Better Android Tablet Experience
2016-05-23 The Best Bluetooth Car Adapters for Any Car
2016-05-21 Netflix Has It's Own Test for Your Internet Connection
2016-05-19 Google I/O 2016: What's In Store For Google
2016-05-04 Get the Most Out of Google's Project Fi
2016-04-26 Adapters Make USB C Transition (Mostly) Painless
2016-04-25 Google Fi - A New Sort of Cell Phone Service
2016-04-15 HTC 10 - A Return to Form for HTC?
2016-03-15 Google Releases Android N Developer Preview Unexpectedly
2016-03-04 Amazon Tap and Echo Dot Add to the Echo Family
2016-02-15 Schadenfreude: Comcast vs Google Fiber
2016-02-02 The Danger of Inexpensive USB Cables
2016-01-29 Amazon Fire Tablet - Better Than They Should Be
2016-01-22 6 Senators to FCC: Broadband Should Stay in 2010
2016-01-05 Samsung's Latest Refrigerator from CES 2016
2015-12-29 Google Moves Toward Ad-Free Sites - Google Contributor and Youtube Red
2015-12-14 Google Engineer is Sherlock Holmes for USB Type C Cables
2015-12-10 The Google Pixel C - What's Up With That?
2015-12-03 External Battery - You (Probably) Need One!
2015-11-21 T-Mobile, AT&T, Comcast: Net "Neutrality"
2015-11-20 Google Fit Does Something - Finally!
2015-11-17 T-Mobile Band 12! Eventually...
2015-05-30 Project Ara

Uncategorized [3] ↑

2019-09-25 Bubbles and Clicks and Bumps (and Mouthpieces), Oh My!
2019-08-30 Open-source Dangers: Supply Chain Infection
2017-06-04 Google Vision For Ad-Free(ish) Internet

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