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Learning to Play the Horn

Physical considerations

Using your body to control air speed, air pressure and direction to control the notes and sounds you produce.

Becoming intimate with all the notes you can produce on the horn by working with the different harmonic series (different lengths of tubing) that all modern horns have.

Learning to sing on the instrument

Efficient Learning Practices

Patterns

• Harmonic series

• Scales

• Harmony / Chords

Pitch/Intonation

• Tempered

• Just

• • • Difference tones

Controlling time and rhythmic patterns

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Notes for working with Bach cello suites