Fundamentals

KBHC 2025 Week 2 Fundamentals - LINKS and RESOURCES

Presented by Lin Baird • lin.baird@wmich.edu

 Day 1 – Basics

• Horn Basics Book

• Femenella Bellrest or Pope Bell Riser

• Left hand (strap or flipper or duck’s foot)

• Nesmith embouchure handout

• Mouthpiece buzzing: BERP

• Warm up: Baird beginning, intermediate, and advanced warm up

• Baird stopped chapter from Horn Basics

• Further work: Hill stopped

• Baird fingering charts

Day 2 – Tone/Sound

• Baumann Gliere 

• Tuckwell Cherubini 

• Neunecker Strauss 1 

• Greer Mozart 3 

• Baird long tones handout

• Etudes that work on this skill: 

Concone Lyrical Studies for Trumpet or horn (ed. Sawyer)

Concone Legato Etudes for horn (ed. Shoemaker)

The Horn Player’s Songbook (ed. French)

Maxime-Alphonse 200 New Melodic and Gradual Etudes (in six books)

Day 3 – Articulation

• Gipps Pyatt mvt. 1 development, fast triple tonguing

• Jacob Pyatt fast single/double tonguing

• Vining tongue diagram

• Further work: single tonguing (Brophy) - Baird multiple tonguing - Baird advanced warm up (pg 2) - multiple tonguing (Arbans)

Day 4 – High Range

• Gipps Pyatt mvt. 1 opening phrase - Gipps Pyatt mvt. 3

• Tuckwell Knetchel mvt. 1 - Knetchel score

• Further work: Baird High Range Checklist - Baird High Register exercises - high range etudes

Day 5 – Low Range

• Gipps Pyatt mvt. 1

• Tryon Yenque Tanguito - score

• Willis Mozart Mambo

• Further work: Baird Low Range Checklist - Baird Low Register exercises - low range etudes

Day 6 – Lip Trills and Flexibility

• Wekre Buyonvsky España 

• Tuckwell Förster

• Baumann Haydn 2

• score examples (España and Haydn 2) - Förster

• Further work: Baird Lip Trills - lip trill etudes

• Baird Harmonic Series

• Pyatt Gipps mvt. 1 (end)

• Hill flexibility excerpts