How to Play French Horn : How to Adjust French Horn Intonation With Slides

Change intonation using the slides when playing French horn; learn how with tips from our expert French horn player in this free orchestra video music lesson on French horns.

Expert: Katherine Liesener
Bio: Katherine Liesener has played French horn for 15 years. She has performed with Opera Illinois and the Danville Symphony Orchestra, and won a solo competition with the Praire Wind Ensemble of Peoria.
Filmmaker: macaela vandermost

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• french
• horn
• orchestra
• music
• instrument
• brass
• lessons
• howto
• video
• instructional

[RJA10001]

ok thanks

[Lorenzo8D]

Likely you have a single horn, not a double horn.

[RJA10001]

can you tell me what kind of french horn I have It doesn't have the thumb key

[Lorenzo8D]

Geez you guys. This is very simple and basic instruction that your average beginner, yes I said beginner, should easily understand. As a long term horn player, I can say that learning intonation is one of the easier aspects of the horn to learn and is the one aspect most slighted. I can generally quickly estimate how advanced a horn player is by listening to his intonation.

[upc985]

My word, the title like it says is "How to play a french horn", with an emphasis on the slides. What does it matter how she spends her time. She just wants to be helpful in the education of the french horn. Actually friend, this is all helpful for a beginner (a beginner can be any age) all these videos are stepping stones for the beginner. Once the play can master his/her embouchure (being that im a brass player) all these steps are great. We may not know why expertvillage posted these videos.

[trausen]

Yes, but as a certified public school music educator, I can assure you that NO BEGINNER under tha age of 12 cares about any of these details. This is material that might be appropriate for a 2nd or 3rd year student....definitely not a beginner. Any teacher spending time exclusively talking about this in classes and not doing basics is an incompetent one.

[agentnibbles]

The title says "How to Play French Horn" so I'm pretty sure it's geared towards beginners.

[trausen]

I can't decide if this woman meant for this to be for a 4th grader or a college student. Sounds like a documentary for four-year olds watching Mister Rogers - the only problem being that no four-year old will be playing the horn anytime soon. This person needs to find another way to spend her time.