adequate horn range?

    
adequate horn range?    19:31 on Monday, October 13, 2014          

frenchhornman
(3 points)
Posted by frenchhornman

i am in my first year of horn and i can play from F3 to F5 and im not sure if this is adequate or not
if it helps last year i played trumpet


Re: adequate horn range?    16:50 on Tuesday, October 14, 2014          

Fredrick
(200 points)
Posted by Fredrick

I like to think of "adequate" as a relative term. If you can comfortably play all the music you currently have (e.g. horn parts for the ensemble you may be in, etude books, solos), then you're okay in my book. If you have a private instructor or ever get one, they will be a better judge because they can hear you firsthand. How long were you playing trumpet for?

There are plenty of other posts that ask this same question. Search through the forum to see if you can find anything of use. Here's a short list of things I found through a quick query of "highest" (since brass players often like to talk about how high they can play):
http://8notes.com/f/51_146988.asp
http://8notes.com/f/51_237655.asp
http://8notes.com/f/51_238133.asp


   




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