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Cosi

PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:50 pm


fuzzdomestic
I was practicing earlier today in my study hall, and one of the clarinets came into my practice room. She just walked over and started pushing the buttons. Then, of course, she pointed to the trigger and asked me what it was. Before I could get the words out, she proceeded to guess. "Is it like an octave key?" (Which is funny within itself. Clarinets don't ahve octave keys either) I said no. "So you can only play in one octave? ... Oh!"


hehehe... poor clueless Clarinets...

We don't have any mellophones in our school (we're just concert band, pas de March, although we play marches), so I'll forever be a french horn! heart

Question!

Has anyone ever played Shenandoah? *death to Shenandoah!* Starts on uber low F (I can hit it!) but then bounces to B flat. Like, low-ish B flat. I don't like to cheat (use trigger) on anything below second space A flat, but it sounds nicer if you cheat.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:34 pm


hey sometimes you gotta cheat...low notes come very easily to me, i can play super low. high notes are the ones i struggle with. anyone got any tips on how to hit those high notes?

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:36 am


fuzzdomestic
I was practicing earlier today in my study hall, and one of the clarinets came into my practice room. She just walked over and started pushing the buttons. Then, of course, she pointed to the trigger and asked me what it was. Before I could get the words out, she proceeded to guess. "Is it like an octave key?" (Which is funny within itself. Clarinets don't ahve octave keys either) I said no. "So you can only play in one octave? ... Oh!"

xd omg that is funny!!
PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 1:23 pm


Phreekontheloose182
hey sometimes you gotta cheat...low notes come very easily to me, i can play super low. high notes are the ones i struggle with. anyone got any tips on how to hit those high notes?


heart Low Notes heart

I'm the queen of the low notes in my horn section. No one else can do anything without cheating, plus I just love playing low. They can play all the high stuff.

I can't really help you there.... the highest I can go is E flat. (4th space). Well, unless we get some cute thing that counts up to it, like a mini-scale. THEN I can go to F, F sharp, whatnot.

~Cosi

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:35 pm


Phreekontheloose182
hey sometimes you gotta cheat...low notes come very easily to me, i can play super low. high notes are the ones i struggle with. anyone got any tips on how to hit those high notes?

If you roll your lips, they usually come out easier. But the best way to play them is to train your lips. For instance, slur up from the highest note that you can play easily to the note that you want to reach, and then slur down. Then repeat. It builds the muscles in your lips. I did that, and now I can play my C scale 4 octaves. heart low notes heart They are still my favorites.
PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:41 pm


i've been meaning to post here for a while, but kept forgetting... sweatdrop .

i'm a french horn guardie (i didn't want to have to play mellophone) i'm 4th chair in our school's top band, but that could easinly change w/ tryouts less that a month away (i've barely practiced the music for it, too lazy)

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:30 pm


Cosi
Phreekontheloose182
hey sometimes you gotta cheat...low notes come very easily to me, i can play super low. high notes are the ones i struggle with. anyone got any tips on how to hit those high notes?


heart Low Notes heart

I'm the queen of the low notes in my horn section. No one else can do anything without cheating, plus I just love playing low. They can play all the high stuff.

I can't really help you there.... the highest I can go is E flat. (4th space). Well, unless we get some cute thing that counts up to it, like a mini-scale. THEN I can go to F, F sharp, whatnot.

~Cosi
hmm funny, the highest i can play is an E flat, too. im also the queen of low notes in our band. high 5! xd thanks for the advice, sugarnew182, ill try it out.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:52 am


sugarnew182
We have 280 people in our band =) Compared to the schools we play, that is like really big... Our music seemed difficult in the begining, but it is becoming easier..

Okay thats like one third of the population of our high school. our band has only 46 or 47 people. we call our mellophones marching frrench horns though but we he have a funny motto.......... we are the frenchwhorists
can i get the unperson banner plllllllese

Plushie~Musician


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:10 am


we're a middle school band so we only have about 50-60 people.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:59 am


I have a question for you french horn players. What's the most comfortable range for french horns? I was wondering 'cause I'm attempting to compose something, and I didn't want to make it like crazy high or crazy low on accident. sweatdrop And as there are no french horns in my band and hasn't been since my freshman year (and then, neither of them were in my class), I don't really know much about them.

Anyway, thanks in advance!

Spurple


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:46 am


Lewkeiyu Taikiru
Hey! I'm a French horn section leader at my high school! All of those who love the French Horn, post here. GO FRENCH HORNS!! WE ROCK!!


YEAH!! *Jumps up and down in joy!* I found heaven... other horn plaiers. At my school, there is another girl who acually plays horn, but shes annoying... oh the irony of it all... Has anyone else named their french horn? My horn is called Comador Fluffy Paws. ^^, wow, im weird...
PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:55 am


Miangel
I have a question for you french horn players. What's the most comfortable range for french horns? I was wondering 'cause I'm attempting to compose something, and I didn't want to make it like crazy high or crazy low on accident. sweatdrop And as there are no french horns in my band and hasn't been since my freshman year (and then, neither of them were in my class), I don't really know much about them.

Anyway, thanks in advance!

I would say for a lot of horn players, the range would be from the f right below the staff to the A above the staff.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:40 pm


Ahhhh 1 week and 2 1/2 hours until I leave for Phili and D.C. We are going there to march as the lead parade in the Phillidelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade. =) We haven't had any parade practices yet, I hope we don't screw up.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:44 pm


I'm a fresman mello in my school..we have a page on our site...kinda cool...i love it! and i love high notes on french horn...heheheh!

Fiesta Bowl for our band this year!!!!

The Mello


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:38 pm


my band gets to play at the kuntucky derby... sry i cant spell, i just got done invatoring all of the schools instrumanets.... *shudders* never seen soo many clarinets that aren't together before... god, this is why i love brass, we keep our instrument parts to ourselfs....
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