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How to Play French Horn: Getting Started
How to Hold the French Horn
How to Use Mouthpiece Pressure on a French Horn
How to Use Embouchure & Lips on a French Horn
Sounding Notes on a French Horn
How to Play a French Horn with Complex Fingerings
Understanding Volume Dynamics on a French Horn
Changing Pitch With Embouchure on a French Horn
How to Adjust French Horn Intonation With Slides
Hand Stopping the Bell on a French Horn
Adjusting French Horn Intonation with the Hand-in-Bell Technique
Stopping & Muting on a French Horn
Slurring Notes on a French Horn
Legato Tonguing on a French Horn
How to Play Staccato Notes on a French Horn
How to Play Accenting Notes on a French Horn
How to Play Glissando Notes on a French Horn
Emptying the Spit Valve on a French Horn
How to Oil the Valves on a French Horn
How to Grease the Slides on a French Horn
French Horn Practice Tips
French Horn Training Methods
How to Play the French Horn Standing Up
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Summary: Use embouchure and your lips correctly when playing French horn; learn how with tips from our expert French horn player in this free orchestra video music lesson on French horns.
Katherine Liesener has played French horn for 15 years, performing primarily in the central Illinois area. She has played with Opera Illinois, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra,...read more
"Hi! My name is Katie and I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com and I'm going to show you how to keep your corners set when you play the French horn. So when you go to buzz into your mouth piece like so, it is important that you keep the corners of your mouth set. A beginner player is more likely to buzz very loosely like this something like that and you notice when I did that everything is buzzing here. What you want to do is you want to keep your corners, the corners of your mouth set almost like a pucker like this. If they are set then it focuses you buzz, it focuses the air that way air is not escaping out in the sides of your mouth. One other thing with beginning horn players in particular there is also a temptation to puff out your cheeks and that is something that is probably originated from pictures of seeing Louie Armstrong who's cheeks puff really big. But you don't want to do that because that dissipates the pressure of your air flow. Keep your cheeks in, keep your corners set and then all the air you are blowing is your blowing directly from your vibrating lips and you are going to get the nose out of it. "
eHow Article: How to Use Embouchure & Lips on a French Horn
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