A recent visitor found my site by typing “playing fast 16th notes on horn” into a search engine. I’m going to assume this person was looking for exercises to improve tonguing speed.
Rapid articulation was a challenge for me as an undergraduate horn student. I had difficulty playing the Mozart concerti up to speed because I couldn’t consistently tongue fast enough to play the sixteenth note passages. I tried a few different exercises, and eventually settled on the following:
- Set your metronome to 100 beats per minute for the quarter note. Starting on middle C (concert F), take a deep breath, and play 4 beats of sixteenth notes plus 1 additional note on the 5th beat.
