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i have emailed the group before, the 21 st centurly thing... they still havent responded back after two months or so.

Hello, At this moment a new Jr. Corps in Connecticut is planning on performing this upcoming summer. We need 3 valve instrument, especially sopranos. All in G. Please respond so we can clear this issue up. email me soon!!! sevbrass@aol.com 7thRegiment Also, feel free to join now!!!

we need horn members in a new corps in new london connecticut. if interested in playing email me please as soon as possible. next rehearsal the 27th of april

one thing? what the heck is intercostal pressure, that just sounds bad to me. also unneeded expirement. LOL, jk. i am not much of a science guy. sorry. any kind of pressure to me that is not just allowing some pressure to create a buzz is unnecessary. i have been trying to correct that for years. it takes a long time. also, i thought arnold jacobs method's were not being followed anymore. my teacher has been preaching the Farkas methods. he is also from the chicago symphony, but a french horn player.

yes my teacher also talks about air a lot also. and the response the physics aspect. this does not have much to do with playing higher or lower. embouchure, apeture, air and strength along with which direction you move your air is the most important. experience also helps a great deal. if you notice when you play, lower register playing moves the air directly across while as you move up in the register your air consistantly changes to cold air and the direction begins to angle down. when you begin to understand your own horn, you personal horn and feel the pitches and let your mind teach your body to play, then this along with scales, chromatic or whathave you on top of pedal tones and longtones, lipslurs, all this will begin to come together and improve your range. but also, a great misnomer with dci, the best players are not the ones who can play triples c,d, and g's. they arethe ones who can play these and other registers with quality. please dont forget to work on these.

yes that is def. true. i am not saying concentrate on pedal tones but merely work on them. they are what builds your chops and better the sound quality. then you can work on your upper range. i would never tell my students to concentrate on pedal tones, no way. but lower brass players do enjoy them more yes. probably because of the sound. but also, there is nothing better then a well developed screamer. lol.

B) Hi. Are you there? i saw your posting on the message board about practicing your range and how much you practice, the best advice to give is to not play so much high range and merely work on peddle tones and chromatic scales from peddle to three octaves and back down and back up, then half octave work. this will improve your range as well as improving your tone quality and pitch in that range. many mistakes of kids, especially dci soloists is playing in the upper range but with poor quality and not actually finding the correct pitches. work on these chromatic exercises and you will be amazed how quickly your problem will diminish, i hope this helps. phil brass caption head for 7th regiment