by John Clark | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here’s a video of the exercise number 4.1 from “Exercises for Jazz French Horn” I have a plan to make some more and better quality videos showing other exercises and playing actual musical phrases. I won’t go into teaching how to do it,...
by John Clark | Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here are 4 blogs I highly recommend. Do you know of some others I’ve missed? I’d love to know about them! Enjoy! Abe Mamet’s blog documenting his research into Julius Watkins and more; this includes links to some fantastic videos...
by John Clark | Sep 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
A major concern of all Horn (French Horn) players who are operating in the non-classical realm is how to be heard when there is a loud rhythm section, or even a loud group of brass, woodwinds or whatever! The bell pointing ‘backwards’ and the hand in the...
by John Clark | Jun 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
First, the “Why”, because that’s the point I really want to make. In a word: CLARITY. It seems to me there are many ways of explaining this. An example is perhaps best: Play a bebop tune as fast as you can, on the double horn. Then...
by John Clark | May 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
As a player, when sight-reading new music, I really prefer not to see too much information. Sure, you need the essentials – time and key signatures, tempo and the notes. But I’ve played many pieces of music that have so much detailed information that it...
by John Clark | Mar 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hi Jazz Horn aficionados; here goes my first blog post! This will be a place to discuss arrangements for French Horn. First, I’d like to ask if there’s any interest out there, in new arrangements of Christmas songs?
