Part 1 Morceau de Concert French Horn Solo, Steve Park, Horn

To download an mp3 file of the accompaniment, go to www.steveparkhornmusic.net. The first two movements of the piece (this video) are playable by a good high school horn Player. The last movement (part 2) is much more difficult!!! Subscribe! I will be adding more solos on a regular basis. I teach horn at a University and my goal is to create a video library of some of the best horn solos for my students and others. Also let me know if there is something you would like me to record. If you would like an mp3 file of the accompaniment, send me your email address and I will send you the file.

[@acouch213]

I was a horn major and watching these make me want to go back! Probably not going back, but I am most definatly going to start playing again and working back to where I was so I can play these amazing pieces again! Thank you!

[@esunnee]

My senior horn student played this for her All State audition and also for brass festival. She starred at festival and made the All-state orchestra for the second year in a row. Love this piece. We used this video and it was invaluable. Thanks so much.

[@theyellowyoshi]

Thanks for posting this. I'm in 10th grade and playing this as my solo. This is one of the best recordings on youtube.

[@victorbartlinski4319]

Not sure if this account is still active, but I just wanted to say how helpful this video has been in giving me a high standard of playing to aim for in this piece.

[@ohsteacher]

I am glad it was helpful. Thanks!

[@karlaveliz7814]

Thanks. I finally have a reference for my solo. I'm doing this for solo and Ensemble and I think it's great.

[@Papasconquesito]

Karla Veliz sameee

[@amylamberth7668]

Karla Veliz Same! I'm an 8th grade student in Honors band and they gave me this piece and I've been listening to it forever

[@AngedeleCor]

I'm gooing to audition for college on this piece; my private lessons teacher believes that I am very capable of playing the entire thing. I've got the first two parts down, but the last section is insane.I can play all but those darn C's... at elast I can't hit them consistently, but I am very determined to play this piece. Thanks for posting this, I needed to hear it to get an idea of what I am lacking in. Now, I know, for one, I'm playing it too fast.

[@playerone6829]

How did it go?

[@jumpshot12345]

You played this piece very well. I am playing this piece for the High School South Jersey Band and im practicing by watching your video. This is really helping me improve on this piece.

[@dvd77612]

This is a fact, I played trumpet very poorly until my senior year of high school. I wanted to go to school for music but I wouldn't have made it on trumpet, so I tried horn out and the difference was incredible! I picked it up really quickly, I've been happily playing horn for about 3 years now in university.

[@bevieobrien834]

This is our honor band audition and I LOVE IT ITS SO FUN

[@THEDROIDSURLOOKING4]

I will be playing this piece in the Solo and Ensemble contest at my school. I'm an 8th grader so it is kind of a hard piece for me, but I'm getting it. Anyway, I love coming to this video to hear how it sounds.

[@ohsteacher]

If you played this in 8th grade, I suspect you are ahead of the competition already.

[@dcallendar7294]

Steve Park haha I'm playing this in 8th grade and I'm scrolling through the comments

[@matthewrogers9831]

Haha same

[@brentwebb7121]

I’m in 3rd Grade playing this

[@eds___]

I'm playing this in 6th grade 0-0

[@aron7969]

This video helped me learn this song, because of course i'm learning to play French horns

[@fdx183]

Thanks! Enjoyed listening...Many memories played this solo on my Freshman recital at Southeastern Lousiana University under James Wilcox (1958-59)...

[@ohsteacher]

Thanks.!!! It's good to hear that you are using the video as an example. That's why I record them.

[@ohsteacher]

The last movement is MUCH more difficult than the first two. So don't feel bad.

[@lovex2xlaugh21]

i play french horn for my middle school instrument and i think it i a blast....it can be tricky....but you make it sound and look like it is so easy and i can barley play a treble c!! hahaha!!! but i did play piano so it helps with my sight reading!!! he only thing that i want to point out.....never ever say any instrument is easy because the all have there own difficulties.....see like me i cant even doulble touge!!

[@camibumblebee]

Beautifully done! I'm in 9th grade, and I'm playing this piece for my solo.. i'm very excited.

[@kansesdillard4703]

So how’d the solo go

[@johndeal4381]

Dude, that was so awesome!!!!

[@aztec11]

Bravo!

[@ohsteacher]

Horn is harder to play than trumpet, especially at first because the notes are so close together. Braces also make it harder, but lots of students do it and are successful. I start most of my students on trumpet and then switch them to horn after they have learned to control their embouchure (about 2 months).

[@Meetch26]

Great job on the muting!! the 2nd movements and the beginning of the 3rd are my favorite :)

[@dcallendar7294]

Thank you for this I have to play this piece and now I have this for reference

[@rolandoserrano5281]

Hola me llamo Rolando y toco la Trompa empíricamente pero este es uno de mis Conciertos preferidos y usted lo a ejecutado como los dioses, felicitaciones, disfrute este vídeo muchísimo, Dios lo bendiga. Adiós.

[@SGprooo]

This is tight, thanks man

[@SilverWiskeyStones]

Thanks again!!! jury is tomorrow!!

[@kosade]

I will play this piece at concert in my high school. This play is good:-)

[@Danusja]

Nie mogę się nasłuchać tych nagrań.. pięknie pan gra =)

[@beccalynnburton]

GREAt JOB!

[@MmANCZ]

Thanks, I finally found, what I was looking for! =)

[@garrettsipper2465]

me too. i heard a classmate play this one and needed to find it!

[@griffik85]

yes it can be played in an audition, most music schools will take this as a contrasting music style (from early 1900s), i used this piece to get into Ithaca School of Music

[@jenapefreckles]

I love this piece! It's so beautiful. Could you tell me where you got the recorded accompaniments? I have been looking for accompaniments for solos such as Villanelle and Hunter's Moon, but I can't find them anywhere!

[@ohsteacher]

Your teacher is correct!!! When I first learned this piece, I was very careful to play the pickup as a duplet. I think I have gotten lazy about it over the years. Sorry.

[@kathleenhao6116]

U play with a very nice sound on the french horn.

[@soobsie]

By the way, thanks for the download. It was a little fast for me but I slowed it down to 0.8 using windows media player. It's a great excersise for the performance I have in 5 days (I wish I found out about the download file earlier!!) :)

[@katiewimmers8613]

I did this solo last year for high school and loved it. Would you have any suggestions for a solo this year? Maybe something sort of similar in style and difficulty, but a little harder. Thanks!

[@TheRawrtoast]

Hunters moon!

[@beagle4864]

Your first movement....the articulation and spacing is so perfect and so clean in the main melody!!! And how do you get the "slippery" section of the triplet section so clean and even? I can't seem to get it and when I do hit the notes, it seems so accented and so clearly in threes that it sounds horrible!!

[@lpaiixen]

hey this is great, i have decided after watching this that i want to use this for college auditions, is there anyway you could help me get the accompaniment

[@LoganMcDonald272]

I’m using the recording for help on my 9th grade solo

[@arilileonard-brown4645]

I'm working on this right now, I'm going into 8th grade in a couple of months so this will be a fun piece to learn over the summer! :)

[@anonymousfrog1334]

I feel stupid that I’m playing this going into 10th haha. I didn’t get serious about horn until halfway through 9th though

[@arilileonard-brown4645]

Anonymous Frog Don’t feel stupid! It’s never to late to learn an instrument and there are many people who started way later than you did. I’ve been playing for almost 4 years and I love the instrument.

[@ohsteacher]

You must have an arrangement. Either that or you are thinking about the end of the last movement, which does end on a high C. I have seen a couple of different editions and the 2nd movement ends the way I did it on this recording.

[@thrillchick2fast4u]

What kinda of horn is that? It looks similar to mine.

[@xinwen4]

i'm in 8th grade and this is my nyssma solo for this year.

[@supreme281418]

Would there be much of a difference in playing ability if one were to start on french horn? I wasn't started on a trumpet, instead I played a french horn from the beginning. A thing that peeved me, was that a trumpet player borrowed a horn and was told the fingerings of a high Ab. After 2 tries he reached it when I had been trying for much longer. After 4 years on the horn my range has increased but I don't forget that. My teachers don't want me to learn trumpet either.

[@1l0v3b4s3b4ll]

im in 10 grade and im playing this for my solo

[@MrWheelandAxel]

Got a perfect score on this piece, and going to state for Solo and Ensemble, and I'm 8th grade.

[@amylamberth7668]

MrWheelandAxel I'm in 8th grade right now and i see that now your in your 1st year of college right?

[@nate8998]

@@amylamberth7668 you in high school now?

[@JokinJoe]

By the way, what horn are you using?

[@GamingHowToTutorials]

Currently practicing this for something called GHP, basically a competition. Any tips for the piece?

[@miaa_rrodriguez]

Anyone have any tips to get better at lip slurring?

[@DrCallico]

hey where does the first movement end, as in measure numberr?

[@thegreenside21]

did you use alternate fingerings for the stopped section? I'm using them because I couldn't get them very in-tune, I was just wondering so I could compare!

[@mhaegs06]

I am playing this for my band final. I can't get the tripple part down D:

[@wcrews214]

What is the horn your playing with? Like is it a Conn 8D or something like that?

[@dmr3982]

How do you know when to use and not use the trigger? Like for what notes should it be used for or is it solely based on the player and what notes they have trouble with?

[@jasminek.16]

D M R The trigger switches to the Bb horn, which has a better upper range, so people often press the trigger to play higher notes (above the b). The trigger is also pretty useful to do rips and it helps with awkward fingering.

[@OrcaLover56]

I'm playing this again for my jury this coming spring (assuming my professor gives me the go ahead) and I can't wait to get back to work on it! I use your recording as reference on it fairly often.

[@lyconthrop]

can this song be played in an audition??

[@raphaelhudson]

@IceCharm46 Its not that you can't play with braces, but when you get them off the change in your lips is so extreme that you are almost back to square 1. ALso there are special plastic lip guards that go over the braces - get them!

[@AggieEngineer1]

Hi Steve, I was wondering if you had any exercises you could suggest to me so that I can get my range, tonguing, and slurring more solid. I haven't played for 10 years but I'm wanting to pick it back up and try out for the Texas A&M band.

[@amylamberth7668]

AggieEngineer1 omg you're in Texas too?!?! I'm in 8th grade but I might go to ole miss or Baylor for the equestrian team. Ole Miss is better bro 👌

[@nicolelamarch9003]

I am playing this piece and i was wondering if you could suggest where I buy the french horn, as well and the piano part? Also, could you be so kind as to email me the piano part?

[@annarycharska6405]

What tempo does this start with?

[@tannerharrodguitar]

i have never performed this song but i have heard from other horn players that part of this piece is "cursed". do you what they're talking about?

[@xinwen4]

are you doing it for nyssma?

[@ohsteacher]

It's an Elkhart Conn 8D.

[@Deathwish42]

@RCWilhite The lowest note is the low B flat at 5:43

[@soobsie]

Nice! I'm gonna play this at a solo concours, it's my first time actually. I'm having some problems with the 16th notes, apart from that it's not a really hard piece. :)

[@dannikabeck6388]

What tempo is this recorded at? I can never find a set tempo but I usually play this a little slower with some rushing in the last third of the first movement.

[@rebeccafriedman3502]

Dannika Beck the beginning is around 108

[@Phibaltalt]

During breaks: 👁👄👁

[@caleblechler8929]

I’m in middle school and I asked my band director for the break to give me a highschool solo and this is what he gave me

[@beagle4864]

Your description is exactly right. That third movement is a bitch, excuse me. I love it so much, I just am never as good as I hope to be. It's all very difficult, but that one really tests me. I'll have it soon. :)

[@battypuff]

I have all kinds of trouble getting the triplet section down. What would you suggest?

[@IshActive1115]

Ashlee Pahmiyer think Trip-el-let

[@cjthejoker690]

Any tips for practicing this piece?

[@patrickarnold4416]

Cj Fitzhugh Practice lip slurs and finger agility. It helped me.

[@MrWheelandAxel]

Just try keeping a steady air stream and finger the notes and it should pop out.

[@TheBetterRyanKelly]

@RCWilhite I believe the lowest not is a low D which is immediately followed by a 2 octave higher Db so its a fun part haha that is in the second movement. this piece is definitely a work out on your chops

[@bradn7]

whats the software you use as your accompaniment ?

[@cormoya]

Hi! I look for your web site now. Can you help me please? 😊👍

[@beagle4864]

@tibelditab I am not him, and I am only in high school, but, myself, I use just single tonguing. It's very difficult for me to make it clean but it is not so fast that you should use double-tongue in my opinion. The tempo my teacher has me play it is quarter note = 92 bpm so it's not too bad. To practice tonguing, I put the metronome at 60 and play quarters, then eighths, then triplets, then sixteenths, and then raise the tempo from there to get faster and faster.

[@ericyu6822]

what sort of horn are you using cause i use the Alexander 103

[@xCodzify]

Looks like a conn 8d to me, looks very similar to my conn

[@snrnsjd]

Hi ! How many students do you have on horn?

[@RCWilhite]

what's the lowest note in the piece?

[@ohsteacher]

It's a Lawson mouthpiece. F670

[@Miketechsharing]

yeah its lawson

[@royal5918]

I'm in middle school and in the varsity group but I have to play this for my solo. help lol

[@soobsie]

Funny how I played the phrase at 1:50 right the first time I saw it, but how I'm still struggling (after two months of casual practising) on the phrase at 2:10....

[@br0k335]

Nice guidance, its hard.

[@LupineTendencies]

Hey, I'm an avid hornist, and I play trigger-down regardless. Will this take away from my sound?

[@teall9767]

Rocky LaRouge I used to be the exact same. I find that some notes are very out of tune of played with the trigger if they normally aren't. My prof is a Juilliard graduate and just about killed me the first time she saw me use all trigger lol. And also...remember that using only trigger means that you are using only the Bb side of the horn. Which defeats the purpose of the double. F horn sounds best when playing a lower register. Get with a horn professor!

[@teall9767]

I also just realized this was from 5 years ago. Sorry! I also don't mean anything I said in a rude or condescending manner.

[@ogolthorp]

One big tip about braces: Learn to play with as little pressure as you can. It will make a world of difference.

[@EinsteinMad]

Not really, the real sound of the horn is the F horn though, not so much b flat. The lower range is better played on the F horn except for the extremes. Some pro's use a combination of two.

[@Shoshua2204]

I'm using this piece for scholarship exam year 7

[@thomasmittler2231]

You should add Schumann Adagio and Allegro... but finally i've found a great recording of this piece.

[@ohsteacher]

I have recorded Schuman"s Adagio & Allegro. Check my channel.

[@tubular8662]

I’m a freshman in high school and I’m first chair in the freshman band and my band director said tagt I needed to do this solo and I was like Ight I got you. And now I’m like oh lord😂 but can’t wait till I’ve actually learned this for my solo

[@Bozeman42]

@kIeLArThY do what?

[@ellahinklin3508]

0:11 ignore meee

[@NurseNickLoL]

Hello sir, I am a sophomore and am going to play this piece in about a month. But I was wondering, as I am going to be at TMEA next weekend, what type of mouthpiece should I buy? I have been using this one (Giardinelli C12) for a while, and I want a switch. What would you reccomend?

[@lynnzhou2275]

Hey steve Park u aws

[@eddiedavila5970]

i played this solo at state but not as good as you

[@Hannah-du4hx]

I‘m only 12 and I Must Play this now it‘s so hart to Play (the Second Part) God job💪🏻

[@NeelyNathan]

Slow it down and be sure your articulation is correct. The key to playing grace notes smoothly is tonguing in the right place.

[@CalvinYCheng]

the french horn is nowhere easier to play than the euphonium..

[@amylamberth7668]

Calvin Cheng the French horn is the most difficult brass instrument to play, pretty much in the entire wind instrument section. I love my horn

[@Shoshua2204]

Sixth grade piece