Trendmarching : Situs Library Marching Band Indonesia

Once a player can play various rudiments well, it is time to develop a quality sound for each of those rudiments. I find that it works best when each hand is isolated before putting the hands together. Learning the technique on one hand will help. The player develops a better quality of [...]

John Ericson
Associate Professor of Horn, Arizona State University
What is a tenor horn?
It is an alto range instrument pitched in E-flat that is used in British-style brass bands. It looks like a small Euphonium and is built to use a mouthpiece that is roughly half way between a cornet and a Euphonium mouthpiece, [...]

You need: a Philips head cordless drill, strapping tape (with fiber or filament in it), colored vinyl tape to match the strap (white, black or brown), colored vinyl tape for the ends, cosmetic cotton rounds, cosmetic cotton pads.
Prep for an old rifle: remove all old tape, gunk, stickers and padding from the rifle. Now repeat [...]

Stopped horn should not be a mystery
By : John Ericson
A version of this article was published in the March, 2002 issue of the Texas Bandmasters Association Journal.
Stopping the French horn is a mystery to many. Otherwise fine horn players are often quite confused as to exactly how to perform music notated to be performed with [...]

By John Q. Ericson
Associate Professor of Horn, Arizona State University
A topic that has come up in several lessons recently is that of learning B-flat horn alternate fingerings in the middle register where I would at least normally us the F horn. It is important for horn players to learn these fingerings in this range, which [...]

By John Q. Ericson
Associate Professor of Horn, Arizona State University
In the United States nearly every horn player will encountermarching horns and mellophones, both of which are often not favorite instruments of horn players. As in the classic joke:
Q: How do you play a mellophone in tune?
A: You can’t!
I first encountered the mellophone in F alto [...]

John Ericson
The question any band director or horn teacher needs to ponder is what mouthpieces will give a new player the best chance of success? What will help them stick with the horn, to make it easier to play, to not quit?
Some mouthpieces are better than others. Although some may recommend Giardinelli to students, [...]

John Ericson
One attitude and approach to equipment that may be taken is that “my horn is what it is and I just need to learn to play it.” There is an element of truth to this attitude but is your horn basically hard to articulate on? Does your sound just not project well compared [...]

Oleh : Bryan Goff’s
I recently discussed the advantages of mouthpiece buzzing as a “pre warm-up”. I would also like to mention some further advantages to incorporating buzzing into one’s practice routine, both with and without the mouthpiece. It’s interesting to observe that buzzing is a technique which is rarely mentioned in most method books, however [...]

Oleh : Bryan Goff’s
During a clinic I was presenting some time ago to trumpet students, someone asked me if I advocated mouthpiece buzzing. “Not really”, I replied. Then after thinking about it, I had to admit that I actually buzz my mouthpiece about 15 minutes every single day! I guess that it is such a [...]