If you have a single horn, it's fingers 1 and 2 for A natural, and fingers 2 and 3 for A flat. If you have a double horn, you can add the thumb key to open the B flat side of the horn.
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Open. no valve pressed down.
E# is the same as F natural, so it would be the first valve only. E# and F natural are in-harmonic, which means they are the same note, just written differently.
Has to do with your lips and the emboucher ... that is how close or far apart the lips are when blowing.
Go here: http://boerger.org/horn/finger_only.shtml
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Open. no valve pressed down.
1)Get a fingering chart 2)buzz mouthpiece 3)make music
E# is the same as F natural, so it would be the first valve only. E# and F natural are in-harmonic, which means they are the same note, just written differently.
Has to do with your lips and the emboucher ... that is how close or far apart the lips are when blowing.
Go here: http://boerger.org/horn/finger_only.shtml
Both have their trouble areas. With trombone, it's all about developing muscle memory to find the correct slide positions. With horn, what gets tricky is close partials in the overtone series, where the same fingering can be used for many notes, or one note can be played several different ways.
"B" Sharp
1st valve or open with the thumb valve. its a concert Bb
Any note can be a half note, as long as it is held for two full counts. This applies to any instrument.
An enharmonic note is a note that has two names but have the same fingering
No. A marching french horn, also called a mellophone, has a shape more like a trumpet with a large bell facing forward. A "regular" french horn has the bell facing backwards. You use your left hand to play the french horn and your right hand to play the mellophone. Fingering also changes to that identical to a trumpet, or a B-flat Horn (the E's and D's are fingered differently). Some mellophones are made to be used with a trumpet (cornet) mouthpiece, but there are adapters you can use to use your horn mouthpiece. Other mellophone are made to be used only with a horn mouthpiece.