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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:19 pm
My music teacher made me try the french horn today at band rehearsal and I was doing pretty good as he was telling the what fingers to use and said I should consider learning that aswell as the trumpet. I was pretty excited because I really liked the sound of the french horn and I would have played it if I got first choice for instrumet I wanted in grade 9 but I didn't I got second choice and I had to pick trumpet. Now though the choice to learn it has come back but now I really like the trumpet aswell. He said though that I could learn and play the french horn for our intermediate band and then do trumpet for class and concert band. So I wanted to ask you if learning the french horn will be extremely frustrating for me? I know that it is hard to play because i have seen the people who are in our bands have trouble but what do you think? Should I do it or not?
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:28 pm
well, my first choice when i started band was trombone, but they went with my second choice, trumpet. the trumpet is a good instrument. you should be good with that. then, if you're pretty good, it just might be possible to play french horn (which i sooooo wanna play!)
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:05 am
yeah i started on trumpet in sixth grade and switched to trombone in tenth. now i a senior and miss the trumpet cause i was so good at it. never thought of trying F. horn though
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:18 am
Trumpet and French Horn are both very enjoyable instruments. I started Trumpet in 4th grade, then in 7th grade I started french horn while playing trumpet for jazz band. It's a pretty easy switch actually. For the basic notes, imagine you're starting on F (First Space) on your trumpet and start with the low F on french horn. Exact same fingerings from there on up.
Later if you go to double french horn, you also get the thumb trigger which is pretty much exactly trumpet fingerings except transposed. It's a good experience, I stopped french horn in 10th grade when I did trumpet full time, but I enjoyed it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:54 pm
I started on trumpet in 6th grade and half way through the year I switched to French Horn. It's not that hard except you have to have a good ear for it. I will say when you play it for 6 and a half years it gets tiresome, but as far as learning it, it shouldn't be difficult, I'd say give it a shot.
Just last year I decided to try out Tenor Sax and now I play it more than my french horn razz you just have to put some time into it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:51 pm
Having made the switch from trumpet to Horn, I can say that the switch isn't that hard as long as you're willing to try. The hardest part is dealing with how the partials are a lot closer together, especially as you go up. Once you're used to the partials and can hear the notes in your head, you should be fine.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:50 am
learning french horn fingerings are easy.............its way easyer then trumpet....turns out if you play melophone for marching band then you have to use trumpet fingerings mrgreen i should know because iam a french horn
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:56 pm
i play horn. It's basicly a two note diffence. this is my scale from three nots below to line two from bottom:
1 0 12 1 0 12 pretty easy
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:53 pm
one of the trumpet players in my band switched to F. Horn after marching band and is playing it better now than the other two french horn players! But yeah you should totally learn French horn. I like the french horn. I also know this one girl who plays the trumpet and the french horn, but french horn was her first instrument. Uhm... I have heard it isnt very hard to learn french horn from trumpet. Oh man I also know another guy who started with the trumpet with me in 5th grade and in 7th went to trombone, to f horn in 8th and then to tuba in 9th and thats what he plays now. lol. Anyways, sorry for all the random stuff that is irrelevant. Good luck!
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:16 am
Haha, I play the trumpet, but I was going to play the french horn, but my mom didn't like the french horn. So sad really wanted to play the F. Horn!!
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:35 pm
Well... I've been playing the French Horn since fifth grade and it's the best instrument around!
lol
at least, so i think heart
Switching between the two shouldn't be too hard... i play mellophone as well (which admittedly is not EXACTLY like a trumpet, but quite similar) and i've gotten on okay~
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