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• 2024 (9 posts)
• 2023 (22 posts)

2024 (9 posts)

• Octave Notation Change in The Horn Call (October 30, 2024)
• Thinking Again About the Word “Amateur” (July 31, 2024)
• Thinking About the Word “Amateur” (April 25, 2024)
• Retirement + 4 Days (April 2, 2024)
• Practice room playing position and recording (March 16, 2024)
• Today’s practice plan (February 10, 2024)
• Horn camp (February 7, 2024)
• Fingering chart (January 17, 2024)
• Juicy mistakes (January 15, 2024)

2023 (22 posts)

• Patrick Stewart on learning a script (December 11, 2023)
• Troubleshooting the high notes (December 9, 2023)
• More thoughts about the octave notation system in The Horn Call (November 26, 2023)
• Using forScore recording cues for practice (October 29, 2023)
• Clarke First Study - chromatic scales (October 6, 2023)
• Proposed: A (much) better octave designation notation for The Horn Call (September 23, 2023)
• Accuracy, Gardner’s challenge, and Ericson’s encyclopedia (September 16, 2023)
• My path: Choosing the French horn (September 6, 2023)
• Now (September 2023) (September 2, 2023)
• To the high Cs (August 20, 2023)
• Intonation tendencies of combination fingerings (August 12, 2023)
• Harmonic progression arpeggios (July 29, 2023)
• Pitfalls of picking a horn-related domain name (July 20, 2023)
• Claiming my space (July 10, 2023)
• Now (July 2023) (July 2, 2023)
• Learning to be more musical (July 1, 2023)
• Focused, concrete improvement goals (June 21, 2023)
• Horn camp 2023 (June 14, 2023)
• Memorizing as a practice aid (June 8, 2023)
• Detached observation (June 4, 2023)
• Now (June 2023) (May 30, 2023)
• Hearing what my mistakes are telling me (May 30, 2023)