Passing from the low range in arpeggios to the high range in patterns such as the Farkas warm-up, will teach the chops to move into the high register relaxed.
It may take a few weeks of the right kind of practice, or years!!!! Only with a proper teacher and many lessons will one learn how to fail... to fail to learn how NOT to play in the High range. While working in the negative is not my personal style of teaching, for the high range, you must learn how not to do it, as so many players waste so much energy "trying" to get high notes. Stop trying so hard. Many people have known the feeling of starting out the day with no warm-up and trying to play some mid-high range passage and feeling tight, lack of breath support and a "pinched sound. This is part of the reason why we work from the bottom up. Unless I have a week of only very high horn, I may not use a complete low range warm up, but most orchestral music needs about three SOLID octaves. Just these past few years my high range has become indestructible. This has happened after years of hard work and starting with a very good high range, with a great performing low range. I always could play the normal high horn works easily and well, but now the extreme works are mostly easy and the standard are easier than ever. Extreme works like, JS Bach Cantata 105 ( herr, gehe nicht ins gericht) Domenica 9 post Trinitas; enjoy music, Matthew Scheffelman Assistant Professor of Horn Colorado State University, Fort Collins __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
