Tag: horn playing

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  • Improve Timing with Intermittent Metronome

    Improve Timing with Intermittent Metronome

    While most music teachers will tell you that metronome practice is essential, there is another component to improving your internal pulse.

  • Errors in Learning: Good or Bad?

    Errors in Learning: Good or Bad?

    It’s a common idea that mistakes in the beginning stages of learning something are bad – but are they?

  • New eBook Edition of a Great Resource for Brass Players

    New eBook Edition of a Great Resource for Brass Players

    Eli Epstein’s Horn Playing from the Inside Out is a must-have resource for all brass players and teachers. And a new eBook version got even better!

  • One Mellophone Advantage – Mutes!

    One Mellophone Advantage – Mutes!

    It’s marching band time, and that means mellophone season. One pro to the mellophone – horn players *finally* get fun mute options!

  • New Web Resource for Horn Players

    New Web Resource for Horn Players

    A new horn resource from one of the authors of Horn Matters and the creator of Horn Articles Online.

  • Summer Listening for June 2021

    Summer Listening for June 2021

    A few odds and ends that can help you beat the summer heat!

  • Meeting Your Deadlines

    Meeting Your Deadlines

    If you’re scrambling to prepare for upcoming concerts and audition, it may not be a skill issue, but a systems issue.

  • How to Get Better Rhythm

    How to Get Better Rhythm

    An interesting study on they internal rhythm of percussionists and non-percussionists shows one easy way to improve your counting.

  • Practice Results Most Obvious AFTER Sleep

    Practice Results Most Obvious AFTER Sleep

    You won’t get better without practice. But you won’t see the real benefits of practice until you sleep.

  • Three Kinds of Tasks

    Three Kinds of Tasks

    Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of tasks that people do regularly. How you categorize your tasks impacts how (and how well) you do them.