Well, I've got a decade on you, and it doesn't get easier. The trick is--cheat.
C is a piece of cake: use Bb fingerings on the F side. For Bb, of course, you
use F fingerings on the Bb side. Concert bass clef: read it like it's treble in
Eb, except add two sharps, not flats, and down an octave.
date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:49:32 -0800 (PST)
from: Herbert Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: Re: [Hornlist] My second horn lesson
Well, I've got a decade on you, and it doesn't get easier. The trick
is--cheat.
C is a piece of cake: use Bb fingerings on the F side. For Bb, of
course, you
use F
Music Recommendations: And I'd also appreciate recommendations for horn
duets, both with and without piano, for my son and I to play. Our playing
abilities are best described as my son being intermediate and me being
beginner.
Onward and upward, folks - one of these days I'll get brave and post
Wrote Walter E. Lewis:
Music Recommendations: And I'd also appreciate recommendations for
horn duets, both with and without piano, for my son and I to play. Our
playing abilities are best described as my son being intermediate and
me being beginner.
For some easy duets, try Sixty French
On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 10:58 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
Music Recommendations: And I'd also appreciate recommendations for
horn
duets, both with and without piano, for my son and I to play. Our
playing
abilities are best described as my son being intermediate and me being
beginner.
At 12:52 PM 1/13/2005 -0500, you wrote:
http://www.opus-two.com/BrassEnsembles.html
#25 (the two of you can figure out how to transpose C horn)
For me, it will be a piece of cake - I read horn in F at concert pitch using
mezzo-soprano clef. My son, on the other hand, will be driven absolutely
I have my 10 yr old pupils transposing right from the start - they don't
find it difficult, they just accept it as part of the job. I usually start
with
horn in Eb, as Walt says, because they are likely to come across that in
band practises.
All the best,
Lawrence
þaes ofereode -
It's important to encourage young, or rusty, musicians to always practice with
a soft pencil handy, and to get their hands on untransposed parts before a
rehearsal. A few dots on the ledger lines or accidentals or fingerings, are a
great help to avoid becoming disoriented at the tricky parts
Bottom line, For those of us who are teachers, making students successful is
our number one priority.
Teach your students to transpose it is part of playing the horn and part of
making them successful. Transposition must become automatic, writing in even a
couple of notes does not help make
My son, on the other hand, will be driven absolutely
crazy as he's never had to read anything but horn in F. Because he's only
12, I may break down and enter it into Sibelius (computer music-writing
program) and print it out as horn in F.
That does bring up the question - since my son is
In a message dated 1/13/2005 2:46:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Teach your students to transpose it is part of playing the horn and part of
making them successful. Transposition must become automatic, writing in even
a
couple of notes does not help make
I think it's a good idea to start'm young on transpositions. I suspect
that the sooner the horn students encounter transposition, the easier it
will be for their young minds to catch on. Not only that, I suspect that
the longer they go without doing transpositions, the more difficulty they
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