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Summary: Play with complex fingerings for the 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! I'm Katie and I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk about the trick to working on your fingering. Often times when you are playing a passage often a quicker passage that requires more complex fingerings, you will find a temptation to lift your fingers up off of the keys when you are pressing down like this but that is going to slow you down. What you want to do is you want to keep the pads of your fingers on the rooters at all times and you don't need them, you don't want them flat like this, you want just the finger tips right on the edge. Here and you want to keep them on so you press the key down and you come back up, your finger hardly leaves the key. If you remember to keep your fingers, your fingertips on the keys it will help you to play the passages more quickly, like so. "
eHow Article: How to Play a French Horn with Complex Fingerings
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robinson1 said
on 4/13/2009 HI I'M robinson bermil.....nice meeting you ms.katherine liesener...
what should i do..>>???I'm just a beginner in playing french horn...what is the best way to improving my embouchure???Please reply me...thanks..