How to Play a French Horn with Complex Fingerings

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Hi! I'm Katie and I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk about the trick to working on your fingering. Often times when you are playing a passage often a quicker passage that requires more complex fingerings, you will find a temptation to lift your fingers up off of the keys when you are pressing down like this but that is going to slow you down. What you want to do is you want to keep the pads of your fingers on the rooters at all times and you don't need them, you don't want them flat like this, you want just the finger tips right on the edge. Here and you want to keep them on so you press the key down and you come back up, your finger hardly leaves the key. If you remember to keep your fingers, your fingertips on the keys it will help you to play the passages more quickly, like so.

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