My New "Student Horn Book" is now available. Learn more about the book below. It was designed to be a supplemental tool to work alongside traditional High School band method to enforce brass playing specific fundamentals.
This book is geared towards advanced Jr. High students, and High School students in the following range gr.8-12.
In my years of teaching and working with students I always noticed something. Band method doesn't always, if rarely, relates to horn playing for the reason that it is set in B flat, and is an approach that is not inline with how our instrument works.
The approach in the "Horn Book" (15 pages) is the byproduct of years of teaching students and clinics, and working closely with several High Schools in Calgary. The goal of this book is an approach that is simple, yet based on the fundamental aspects of horn playing. It is a short routine style approach to gaining control over our instrument. It is not a book with a large amount of exercises, it is short, concise, and built on the idea of mastering our foundation.
It contains exercises to develop these fundamental aspects of playing, and should be used along side other method and teachings. The approach contained here will get our foundation in place for great music making to come.