A video by James Boldin, assistant professor of horn at the University of Louisiana at [...]

A while back I posted on the potential benefits of the Alexander Technique for horn playing, and as a follow up this post will consider the Feldenkrais Method, or as it is known today, The [...]

As a beginner French Horn player, one of the simplest things you can do to progress is to memorize the fingerings for all of the notes. To help you get started, here is a basic [...]

I picked up a great one page handout showing exactly where each note of a chord needs to be in order to be perfectly in tune according to just intonation. The handout is constructed to [...]

As a beginner trombone player, one of the simplest things you can do to progress is to memorize the slide positions for all of the notes. To help you get started, here is a basic [...]

As a beginner trumpet or cornet player, one of the simplest things you can do to progress is to memorize the fingerings for all of the notes. To help you get started, here is a [...]

In 2010 I released an online course entitled “High notes, low notes, and everything in between“. The course consists of lessons – or modules as I call them here – and is aimed at advancing [...]

The control panel in the BrassMusician.com system has a nifty feature showing which articles receive the most number of views. Based on our reports, the 7 most popular articles of 2011 have been listed below. [...]

With 2011 drawing to a close, we thought it would be fun to list our 5 favourite brass playing blogs! #1 Hornmatters.com John Ericson and Bruce Hembd have done it again, reaching the #1 spot [...]

With the exception of trills, turns are probably the most encountered ornament in horn music – think of Kopprasch and Maxime-Alphonse, to name a few. Many excellent resources deal with the performance of both turns [...]