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Why You Shouldn’t Have (One) Warmup Routine
What do Lay’s chips and warm-up routines have in common? You shouldn’t have just one!
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Dropping A Dime On Mouthpiece Measuring
I’m reminded of an excellent way to quickly “measure” rims without any fancy tools.
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Bubbles and Clicks and Bumps (and Mouthpieces), Oh My!
Although I don’t use these terms at all in my teaching, bubbles, clicks, and bumps are an important thing for teachers and students to be aware of. These terms are used by horn player (and composer/conductor) Gunther Schuller to describe various imperfections in articulations, slurs and the slotting of notes. Over on the Horn Matters…
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You’re Only As Good As Your Ears
While practicing is necessary to improve, you can only improve what you hear!
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No Time To Practice
“I didn’t have time to practice this week, I had too much to do.” It’s an excuse that everyone who has been teaching for more than 15 minutes has heard. It’s also an excuse that almost everyone who has played an instrument for more than a week has made. But it’s a lie. And no…
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Deciding On A College? 2 Things To Consider
Deciding on a college is stressful, no matter what your major is going to be. Especially if you have multiple schools offering competing scholarships. John Ericson over at HornMatters.com has written a great article about two things to consider when you’re finalizing your college choice: Being pushed to respond to scholarship offers before the May…
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Teaching Musical Interpretation: Learn, Listen, Count
In years of working with students on the horn, one of the most difficult concepts to teach (at least for me), has been the idea of musical phrasing. I imagine that this is (at least in part) because getting a strong set of fundamentals took me so long. I don’t know if this is true…
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Yo-Yo Ma and Doug Yeo on Changes and Choices
Yo-Yo Ma is one of the most iconic classical musicians of the last 30-plus years. His recordings of the Bach Cello Suites (made in the early 1980’s, the late 1990’s, and in 2017) have shown an incredible ability to capture the musical essence of Bach, and they also serve as a great example of different…
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Do More in Less Time: 80/20 Your Practice Next Year
The is an old “rule” that’s commonly used in business, but I think that it has some great application in the music world too. The 80/20 Principle: In Brief The basic idea of the 80/20 Principle (also called the Pareto Principle) is that in most cases, 80% (or so) of results come from 20% (or…