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  Jeff Garza, Horn

Level 4
Advanced


Advanced students are strong high school or early college level students that practice 30-60 minutes daily while taking weekly lessons. They are often top players in school music programs. Students at this level should be auditioning successfully for regional honor ensembles and youth orchestras.

LEVEL 4 FUNDAMENTALS - PDF

Etudes
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  • Arban: Phrasing Studies
  • Barboteau: Lectures/Excercises (1-20)
  • Franz: 29 Studies
  • Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (5-30)​
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 2 (1-20)
  • Schantl: 120 Melodic Pieces (31-60)
  • Sawyer: Concone Lyrical Studies

​Solos with Orchestra/Piano
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  • Bacon: Selected Songs, Vol. 2
  • Bozza: En Irlande -- 🎵
  • Cooke: Rondo in B-flat -- 🎵
  • Dunhill: Cornucopia -- 🎵
  • Glazunov: Reveries -- 🎵​
  • Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 -- 🎵
  • Reger: Scherzino -- 🎵
  • Saint-Saens: Romance, Op. 36 -- 🎵
  • F. Strauss: Nocturne -- 🎵​​

Objectives
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  • 6 hours weekly practice
  • Introduction to bass clef
  • Study recordings
  • Memorization
  • Introduction to Stopped horn

Promotion
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  • B-flat 2 to B-flat 5
  • 2 octaves, all major scales
  • Demonstrate stopped horn technique

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