How to Play French Horn : How to Play Glissando Notes on a French Horn

[rtmcgaha]

You suck

[garthphantomlife]

Expert village: NOT experts, and most likely not a village.

[jwkluen]

She kinda looks like Heather Brooke...

[stevenhamlin1000]

i'm a tromboner i think i should know that a glissando looks like 2 notes with a squigilly like that looks like a trill between them or a straight line in between them

[sk8rguy4life1123]

did they pick this girl p off the street like

[sViv4SHIZ]

all glissandos arent rips. you wanna see a rip, click on my page. you did a rip..so actually theres no real reason to click on me, but w/e ,. do a glissando qnd hit all the notes.

-by a french horn player

[sViv4SHIZ]

all glissandos arent rips. you wanna see a rip, click on my page. you did a rip..so actually theres no real reason to click on me, but w/e ,. do a glissando qnd hit all the notes.

[stu1552]

wtf glissandos are the most natural thing to play on a horn?!?!- i am a tuba player and i know thats not true, trombone yes but fench horn, i don't think so

[PlushChronicles]

This is more for like middle school students.

[FieryBob]

@PlushChronicles

I'm 6th grade and I'm way above this.

More like for pres-school students.

[theblewlite]

21 people don't like playing the french horn correctly >.>

[musicith]

what a bad example... i hope people dont see :14 and think that all glissandos look like that because 32nd notes do happen and are playable without glissing, probebly should have had a more universal example...

[gilbertoagostinho]

Is it my impression, or every single video on Expert Village sucks? I watched videos on French Horn, Guitar, Conducting, Magic tricks, and all of them were done by a bunch of pretensions amateurs!!

[Coolcat607]

@gilbertoagostinho um... what is "pretensions" =/

[gilbertoagostinho]

@Coolcat607 It is "pretentious", I click on the wrong word on the spell-checking.

[Chaserpeach]

@gilbertoagostinho and glissando can be written as a line too

[lovesGenet]

a glissando should sound like a slide of in between notes.That is not what it sounded like.Stravinski in rite of spring Ravel Dapne Chloe has these strange sounds.

[8747800]

u didnt play the damn glisando all i hear is a rip from C to C

[Jynx215]

@8747800 you mean F to F

[8747800]

@Jynx215 i know its an F concert but im talkin in french horn (transposed in F)

[Clark98]

@ ExpertVillage, please stop posting videos. Please be proficient enough at your own instrument before instructing others. I've also noticed your instructional videos on singing are also full of incorrect information.

Please tell me you don't pay these people to "teach" in these videos. If that is the case, hire me instead. I can do it correctly, and could use the money. Hmm.

[wkzh]

The initial example score they provided does NOT show a glissando, it clearly states "quasi glissando"... If you look carefully, it isn't even chromatic! Let alone a "large number of discrete pitches of small interval differences".

[matthew34433]

right now i am playing the alto sax but next year i am going to switch to the french horn and i really want to play it. i have now freaking clue why i said "saxophone" on the first day of band

[ChEeSe150910]

i'm daniela and i play the french horn and its awesome

[rayamoy]

dang! thats harder than it sounds :| iam trying it (been playing french horn for 4 years) and i can't get it right lol

[NIMariwana]

im in high school, and i play a moderate amount of solos, and i think theyre pretty fun :)

[poloeh67]

i play it, fun but NO SOLOS

[Commentman4887]

yeah i never get solos

[stridegum1213]

every instrument is extremely hard in their own right. But some are easier to make a good sound come out of for example, its much easier to make a good tone come from a piano then it is to make it come out of an instrument such as the french horn. I think upright bass is pretty hard to (thats what i play) you have to have perfect finger placement to play in tune.

[chloe0825]

I started to play french horn just yesterday. Then, I got to know that making sounds is wayyy harder than flute! after the lesson, i felt vibration on my lips.. but it's fun and your video is so useful:) thank you so much!

[Jojjes11]

That technically isnt a glissando..

[hahaXitsXandrea]

glissandos are sooo much fun.

[IceyGirl52]

did you know that a begginer french horn is harder than all the other instruments!?!?

[kearbear161]

but what do you do when you dont have a starting note, but an ending note!??!?!?!

[stargazntreki]

French horn; because the trumpet wasn't hard enough. =D

[ldgunn1]

Theoretically any brass instrument has an infinantly high range (not necessarily low) so saying it has more range than any other instrument is flawed. This applies so some woodwinds as well.

[hitman8djr]

I would disagree. There comes a point in which the mouthpiece wont respond to the minute vibrations you are using, and thus you reach the end of it's range. Also, so may consider a "range" only the notes that you can sound decent on (like I, along with most other players do). And squealing up high does not sound good, so most peoples range ends there.

[hunter020796]

Dude my music shop has a deal where you can try out an instrument for 2 mounths free and you can see if you like it and I doit all the time and I learn with these videos.

[kidcomposer]

why is a french horn so hard? a trumpet has 3 'valves' too... just asking....

[GunzTheDuel]

its because of the mouthpiece and requires more air then the trumpet

[jewboy11505]

it has a lot to do with embosure and air support. I myself play tuba, so when i tried french horn for the first time, all i could play were high notes. the low notes need far less air but much more support from the diaphragm to make them sustained and sound good. it goes in to a lot more detail than that, but that's the gist of it

[baborielly]

no its because you are playing so fare up on your embrechure (idont no the spelling) that the slightest change in your lips changes the sound drastically.

[nickcarp321]

because the notes r very close togther on the mouth piece

[tikiwildchild]

one point is that within an octave, you can play many notes with the same fingering. it is easier to crack notes because of this, too.

[thenewzkrew]

I play horn, it's because the partials for each fingering are extremly close, being able to play close to 20 notes per fingering combination.

[g3org33r3]

whats it like playing horn? im 14 and thinking of taking it up.

[thenewzkrew]

VERY fun, but very difficult. If you're going to do it, do it soon. I like playing it because of its beautiful tone and huge range.

[trhornii]

do it. end of story. ;)

[randomchick95]

Dude you should do it i play french Horn It is difficult but I love it!

[shirkenXCCR]

@g3org33r3 play trombone or trumpet.

[g3org33r3]

thanks. what ill think ill do is hire and french horn for a term with essex music services and if i find it too difficult, ill try something else. thank you :)

[cornophile91]

The horn is amazing, everyone is right though; very difficult, but very rewarding if you get good at it. Go for it, good luck.

[hitman8djr]

Play a trumpet and slur from middle C to 3rd space C. Do the same with a horn. You'll notice that you hit many MANY more notes with the horn. if you go up and do it with a 2nd space A, it will be even more obvious. this is because the Horn is much higher in it's harmonic series than any other brass instrument. Thus, all the notes are closer together, so it is much easier to hit other notes than the target you are trying to it. This is the main reason it's considered one of the hardest to learn

[gogos1234567890]

it's basically sluring, but you want to go from the bottom note and go sharper and sharper thill you hit the next partial then you are really flat on that note so you just go sharper till you get in tune ^^

[goss525]

I thought the only instruments that can play the glissando was the trombone and strings.

[Deathwish42]

those are the only instruments that can play a true glissando but the term is also used to describe this technique.

[goss525]

the example she gave of a glissando on the music sheet is different then what I'm used to. I'm a cello player and a glissando is a note on the staff (of any clef we play) with a wiggle line going up or down above the note.

[fisk7aal]

This is not how to play a glissando, This is how to fake a glissando.

Anyways good video

[Countbep]

Is that something we are supposed to actively learn? I do such things for fun then realise i have to use it afterwards.

c'mon, that gliss isn't hard to do...

[randomisnotgood]

It's ironic that the name of this site is Expert Village, because I find so many people who give lessons on here wrong. The name should be Novice Village, not expert village.

[Pkcowboy]

nope your wrong

[GustavMahlerHorn]

haha that made me laugh, proper glissando is played by using half pressed valves.

[Polermo]

only if you want your glissando to sound like one of the parents talking in a peanuts cartoon.

[P0dDels]

That is just possible on the "Wiener Horn"

You can't do it on a Double F/B Horn

[norathorr]

Dibs...

[burger414]

sounds more like you were doing lip slurs

[123Rhiannon]

I play the French Horn, which is one of the hardest brass instruments to play. i have been playing for nearly 2 years now and i am at grade 3 passing both my previous exams with merits, i live in scunthorpe and i think i am the only french horn player in the county !

[cornophile91]

Excuse me, but it IS the hardest brass instrument. Depending on the list and who you talk to it is either the horn or the double reeds that are the hardest instruments in the orchestra. Keep it up, the world can use all the good horn players it can get!!!!

[gogos1234567890]

ummmm *points at string instruments* sorry buddy, thats taken.

-Patrick (euphonium player)

[cornophile91]

I'm sorry, but you really need to talk to an oboe player...

[gogos1234567890]

te be a good enough string player to play in a professional orchestra, you need to play since like the age of 5.

[cornophile91]

That's because a 5 year old can play the violin. A 5 year old doesn't have the lung capacity to play most wind instruments. But you lead into a good point, that as a 5 year old can play a string instrument, the music they can play as experts is harder than the music that other instruments can play.

[gogos1234567890]

well i guess thats what im trying to say. Sorry, i thought you were saying that oboes got the toughest parts. Yea I see what your saying. I don't know too much about double reeds but i can imagine that they would be very tough. (YEY YOUTUBE FRIENDLY DEBATES) XD

[cornophile91]

Yeah, nice talking to you.

[Brooklyn082285]

is the French Horn easy to master?

[ShadowX1]

um heck no!! lol Its one of the hardest intraments in band. U have a small small mouth piece and u can have like many many many notes on just one valve i play it and like i said its one of the hardest to master

[ilovewilsonal]

Do u think that oboe is easier or harder than french horn? I know every instrument is hard,but just wondering!

[ShadowX1]

it depends i nver played an oboe before so i don't know i think they r both hard both mouthpieces are small so i don't know. Both r hard

[enVme731]

no! but again every instrument is hard to master

[PROIMZ]

is that a CONN 8D? or a Holton?

[spum789]

i really like the horn, it has probably more range than any instrument(other than the piano). and when you play really low you can sound similar to a trombone, or when you play high you can sound similar to a trumpet(even tho there is a distinction). but it is true that the horn is a very mellow and soothing instrument. I play the trombone, which i believe is second best to the horn. because of its uniqueness(even tho the trombone is the only instrument that relies on a slide to change pitch)

[supernerd1300]

*high five*

it does have the widest range :)

[biznock19]

even more than clarinet?

[enVme731]

the clarinet I believe has the highest range

[bdm8319]

theoretically a brass instrument's range is only limited by the frequency a player can buzz their lips at

[banddboyy]

i play to

[sebluthiers]

This is one of the most beautiful instruments. I love it.

[pbyshelley]

dude natural horn glissandos are the way to go. no fingers.

[NatassaK]

me too i play it too!!

[samiegirl07]

I play the french horn!!

[Siran]

how long does it take to learn the notes?

[NatassaK]

what do you mean learn the notes?

[Siran]

how to play them...

[NatassaK]

if you're good you can blow the notes after several times. but if you are just beginning it might be hard since you need a lot of air to blow the different notes.

[DarkHawkVideos]

HUNTING HORN!!!!