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Rangesongs develops your high and low ranges by using target notes in a musical context to encourage you to move your air properly. For the high range, Rangesongs offers sixty-five songs designed to improve your range and endurance systematically by using two strategies: the phrases within each song are specifically composed to build melodically to a designated target note, providing a compelling musical incentive to support the tone with the proper air speed; and the songs proceed chromatically to reach a high C for gradual improvement. For the low range, Rangesongs offers thirty songs to extend the range downward in the same fashion to a low G.

A daily routine is an integral part of any hornist's practice regimen. Daily Routines for Horn provides a systematic way to develop and improve fundamentals, helping to establish consistency in all areas of playing. There are eight routines, each divided into skill categories: long tones, crescendo/diminuendo, flexibility, accuracy, interval studies and patterns, articulation, and high and low playing. Additional resources included in this book are progress charts and an articulation spectrum. Daily Routines for Horn ensures that players will be challenged in unique and helpful ways."These are studies which will prepare the lips and musculature to safely and effectively perform in all registers with flexibility, fluidity, and strength, at all dynamic levels. They might just be the nearest thing to a secret strategy that a horn player will find." - Lowell Greer, Orchestral Hornist; Chamber Musician; Soloist; Educator; Horn Maker

Daily Routines for the Student Horn Player is a systematic approach to help student hornists develop and maintain fundamental horn skills. Designed to challenge students but not overwhelm them, there are eight routines: Beginning, Air, Overtone Series, Intermediate, Ear Training, B-flat Horn, Duet/Intonation, and Advanced Routine. Each routine incorporates the following skill categories: long tones and mouthpiece buzzing, crescendo/diminuendo, lip slurs, accuracy and dynamic changes, alternating tongued and slurred between intervals, articulation and technique, high and low playing. By applying these skill categories as a template to each routine, students are sure to develop all of their skills equally.