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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:20 am
My BD wants me to switch from trumpet to french horn, i want to but does any one have advice!
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:39 pm
Yes...make you vibrate with your top lip and anchor with your bottom. I made that switch when I was in middle school and no one ever told me how to play correctly. It'll save you A LOT of trouble in the long run.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:32 pm
When you first pick up the french horn, the mouth piece is a good deal smaller than that of a trumpet; so it feels a bit like blowing through a straw. The transition isn't that hard, though, so I say go for it! You never know what you end up liking smile
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:21 pm
A transition from trumpet can be a bit more challenging than its reverse. See, with french horns, some of the two whole step intervals (say D to F) are the same fingering (first). It takes a highly tuned ear to be able to tell the difference, and a precice lip to hit one note rather than the other. Not only that, but the mouthpiece is (as mentioned earlier) much smaller and shaped like a cone, not a bowl. The conic mouthpiece plus the flowing curve shape of the horn itself makes the tone much richer, but it also makes it much more difficult to sit on the higher notes. Now, I can hit a high C on F horn (it's a G on trumpet) pretty easily, but a few notes higher and it sounds like my horn is squeaking. On trumpet, however, I can hit a high C (two octaves up) like it's nothing. It will take a while to get used to, but the horns have some of the coolest harmonies in a lot of great symphonic pieces.
Just be prepared to get ALL of the oom-pah parts in marches though. Every. Single. One. xp
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:33 pm
French horns are usually needed more and the oppertunity to switch instroments is a good one. French horns are lovely and knowing two instroments is good for colledge apps!
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:02 pm
How easy the switch is depends on your apptitute as a musician. I've been studying trumpet for several years myself, and am now a senior in high school, so when my instructor asked my to play french horn for a song i was willing to try it. since it's still brass and plays very similar the switch wasnt all that hard. Also this year I've played baritone. So now I can play trumpet very well, and baritone and french horn decent, and then i'm helping the 5th grade band learn thei instruments, occasionally playing them myself. So, i've played a clarinet, alto sax, and trombone, as well as the above. Also, my director is making me (outside of class) learn music theory. All this and i'm not even gonna be a music major in college!! xd
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:54 pm
I just picked up a F horn today for the first time ever... I switched from violin. Does anyone have any tips for beginner beginners?
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:58 pm
Im a french horn player. Im not saying french horns are the best, i love all brass instruments, but a french horn does have a deeper hollow sound that stands out in music.
For example: when you watch movies in the beginning it shows the world spinning with the words universal or something. The sound that you hear most of is the French Horn.
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