Horn Insights

Jeffrey Agrell’s horn blog

Posts to date:

2012

January

Tech Project #1: Running the OTS
Tech Projects - Basics & Essential Terms
Tech Projects - Introduction
New Year’s Horn Treats
New Blog: Improv Insights

2011

December

Tis the Season to...

November
Time to Be Frank
Talking Acorns: Arts Survival in the 21st Century
Cutting Edge in Nova Scotia

October
Play (or Do) What’s Not There ==> Success

September

The Ravages of Brass Playing
Of Myelin, Smart Homework, Interleaving, and the Horn

August

A Week on the Sidewalk
(More) Quotes for Thoughtful Musicians
No Comment

July

Composing: FAQ
Summertime, and the Reading is...

June

Almost Heaven
A Horn By Any Other Name
Rhythm n Views from All Over
10 Step Program for Getting Off the Ink

May

Telling Intervals with Tunes
Creative Ecology?
The Song-O-Nome: Telling Tempo with Tunes
Orchestra Fines for horn players
Voting/Campaigning on the Creative Ticket
An Arkady in Public?

April

Start Your Day with a D.A. (Daily Arkady)
Recipes & Ratios, Pastries & Practice

March
Ocean Liners and Scoreboards
Pre-Graduation Speech

February

And Here’s to You, Mr. Ericson
Blizzard of ’11: Good News for Musicians

January
New Year’s Revolutions

2010


December
Holiday Musical Cheer
Power (of) Play

November

Shortcut Culture
Taking Inventory

October

That Would Be Wonderful
Definition of Insanity
Eat the Frog

September
Betrayed by Eyebrows
Apollo, Dionysus, and Music Ed

August
Music School of the Future
Parlez-Vous Transposition?

July
The Experience-Stretching Hypothesis
New Visions of Music Making

June

Happy Father’s Day/Confessions of a Reluctant Horner
Summer Horn
40 for 20

May
The Invisible Gorilla
Sprezzatura Time

April
Don’t Mind the Gap
Do You Speak Horn?
Winging It With Piet

March

Dangerous Things
Mozart Effect = Crap
Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Lights! Camera! Action!

February

Move It Move It
Richard St. John’s 8 Secrets of Success
Be Ready for That Wedding
Just Duet
Go, Team!
Facts of Life

January

Jumping on the Blog Wagon

2009


December
All the World’s a Stage
Spicing Up the Routine
Tabata: Pain?! = Gain! Horn?

November
The Alchemy of Synergy, Part II
The Alchemy of Synergy, Part I
Horn Fartlek
Tech Dreams

October
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
What If...?
Less is More, Or: It’s the Principle of the Thing

September
Something Different II
Moving and Music Making
Something Different I
Horn Player’s Preventative Maintenance

August
Quotations for Musicians
Outlier Lessons
Supporting Arts Education
Reflective Practice
The Beauty of the Beast
Ramp Up Your Amygdala, Or: Eyes Wide Shut
Unburied Treasure
Prey or Predator?

July
Links!
That’s Different: Tales & Scales Horn Audition
How to Impress Your Teacher
15 Second Sight Reading Routine
Horn Camp
Three Pillars of Performance
Trick Question
Beyond Kopprasch
Talent Is Overrated & The Truth About Grit
Taking the Easy Way Out in Education
Welcome/Who Plays What