How do u change pitches/ play the french horn?

I use to play clarinet but when the teacher say they needed frech horn player I decide to change to french horn. I pratice for about 3 days and I am not getting any better, and every time I play I have no ideas what note I am playing. HELP!!

How do u change pitches/ play the french horn?
For a warm-up, get used to where the F on the first space is, and what it sounds like. Use it as a reference to find your place when you get lost.





I usually play F, G, A, Bb, C, D, E, F to warm-up.





Later I do this:





FGF FAF F Bb F Fc F FdF FeF





It let's me hear my beginning note, and then I gradually go higher.





If you are in band and the saxaphones have the same music you do, often you can try to match yourself with them.





It took me a good 2 months when I first began to be able to play easy songs, and the scale I wrote for you above.





The key to playing the french horn is a lot to do with good ears. Can you hear the notes you need to play.





I might even take out your mouthpiece and buzz the notes before you put the mouthpiece back in. Just get used to how it feels. Your lips should be pursed at the corners of your mouth and your corners should stretch to the side.





If you want to play higher notes, use faster air and blow it down, NOT more pressure.





If you want to play lower notes, use a little slower air, and blow toward the middle of the mouthpiece and loosen the corners of your mouth.





Also, it may be easier for you if your school has a double french horn (Bb Horn), that way when you change notes, the notes are easier to find, because the partials are further apart.
Reply:There should be a fingering chart in your book.





Changing to a higher range would require that you tighten your embouchure.





Fingering chart:


http://www.amromusic.com/band/fhorn/fing...








Embouchure: the looser you purse your lips, the lower the notes you will be playing. The tighter you purse your lips, the higher the notes you will be playing.
Reply:Horn is notoriously hard to play because the overtone series is so close together. I would suggest that you play the instrument with someone playing the notes for you on piano or another instrument (make sure they transpose) so that you can match pitch with them and get used to what the notes should sound like on the horn.



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