Hey Mars, I’m really curious if you use a Laskey mouthpiece at all? And what model do you use instead? I play a laskey 725g both American and European shanks depending on what horn I play at the time. Great work! Love the video on circular breathing!

I believe vocal temperament will in the future become industry standard.😊

Dizzy would be proud.

OK but why's no-one talking about that double B flat!!!!!!

My lowest note before continuing to watch this video is a pedal F#. Right now my double horn is broken so I can't play the F below it but I will keep trying to reach that F.

Did you just play 0:15 - 0:26 in one breath? Wow!

31:49 time stamp for the start of the note accuracy talk

Damn, you're sexy!

This sounds so simple, but it's bloody brilliant Mars. This thought instantly helped me to an incredible extent. I'm not going to lie, I'm going to ignore you recommendations at the end re progression, I seem to be able to apply it instantly. Thanks so much for this!

On a double horn

I love this!!! As a horn player of just under a year, I find this so inspirational and my incentive to keep playing. My goal is to play at this level, and I think the motivation this fuels me with will help me achieve that. Thank you :)

Good Morning, Mars, and thank you for this approach. Having just played a concert that included Tchaik 6 (without an assistant), I used a combination of pooching out my lips and opening toy mouth wide (almost like a scream) to reinvigorate my embouchure. I will try your antidote and let you know how things go. ~Avrum

Thank you for pointing out that we're all different and differences in embouchure can be ok. It sounds so simple but I realized I was fighting my own body when you said that.

Incredibly high range but what is with that background

Thanks!

Tounge is "doing it's job" you say. What "job" is that ?

What does tce stand for?

As long as the air flows inro the cup on each pulse "direction" is irrelevant. Attempting to manipulate the "direction" changes the lip posture and therefore the frequency of pulsation.

guy is working on high D * "just squal a double c and it will be easier"

Is that Messi ?

"I just need to know the piece, rhythms and tricky passages" I think this summarizes any complex piece😅 Good idea I'll trying singing through the horn whole practicing 👍

Interesting - have had the exact same coaching point made for singing!

Very cool - my friend and fellow alphorn player from Vacaville

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some parts sound like that bit in variations on korean folk song

Balanced Embouchure by Jeff smiley

Looks like sorcery to me... I am a violinist)

What is that mouthpiece?? Looks somewhat familiar. Stork?

The air stream never goes straight into the shank. If the upper lip is more inside the mouthpiece the the air goes down. If the low lip is more in the mouthpiece ( like trumpeters ) then air hits up.

Would be great if it was available for Android also.

I can answer this one! The airstream never goes directly into the mouthpiece shank (you wouldn't get any sound). The more you play into the upper register, the closer the airstream hits to the rim of the mouthpiece (as Mars says here, more "down" as you ascend in the upper register), and the lower you play, the closer it moves to "straight" into the shank of the mouthpiece. (For an upstream player, it's reversed, which is why I say "closer to the rim of the mouthpiece" instead of "further down" - for such a player, it's more and more up.) This is pretty key for range development. However, we don't really "feel" this when playing. Most brass players (myself included) describe the sensation of playing with control and ease as "blowing straight down the mouthpiece". It's important not to confuse sensations with what is really happening (as with so many things in brass playing, our biosensory feedback isn't reliably what you'd expect it to be). (Sidenotes: First, buzzing with a rim/visualizer is not always a reliable test of what the airstream does - without the cup of the mouthpiece, it's not always the same as when playing the horn. Second, horn angle/direction does not dictate airstream direction - you can lower the horn and be blowing "up" and vice-versa. Mars, if you look at my octave slurs video, you'll see my adjustment is the opposite - I changed this to get more power in the upper register.) Nice to see people chatting about this! Cheers to you both.

What is the cost of this Horn course? Thank you.

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I use circular breathing for after beats.

Absolutely amazing!!!

Nice! More French Horn bossa nova, please!

Thank you for sharing all of this. I remember in high school playing horn in jazz band. My music teacher thought it was great. However, I was ridiculed by adjuticators when we competed. Ultimately, we were scored lower. I love the horn and different genres of music. You are doing awesome work! Feeling inspired to bring horn to other genres!

Mozart's wrote all sorts of notes to Leutgeb in the manuscript... these concertos are suppose to be joyously playful, but I've never heard a horn player capture this like Sergio Azzolini. If you listen to Azzolini perform the first movement of Mozart Bassoon Concerto No. 1 and still have baggage, then watch it again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKTbY6pvr9KVY5I

Always very very interesting

Awesome!!!11111!!!!!111!

Yes, tension is definitely the killer

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Yeah!

Awesome!

"Understanding what you can do ... appropriate sense of margin ... narrowing the the margins" - excellent advice. Know thyself. And, consider, as humans, let alone Horn players, margins may vary day-to-day, but soon one's margins can/will narrow. Thank you, Mars.

Thanks! I wish both of you a Merry Christmas!

Love this!!