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The Breathing Book for Horn by David Nesmith is appropriate for college through professional horn players.

NOTE: This second edition features new images, explanations, and QR codes linking to videos demonstrating the activities.

Breathing is one of the most important fundamental skills for horn playing because it provides the foundation for many of our other fundamentals including tone, articulation, range, endurance, intonation, flexibility, and phrasing. If you want to improve one of these important musical attributes, start by improving your breathing. The Breathing Book is a blended textbook and method book—it contains information about breathing and activities designed to help you use the knowledge as you play horn. The Breathing Book is not an exercise book—it's a "learn how to move" book and includes videos for some of the chapters and movements to clarify the content. The Breathing Book explores all the individual movements of breathing and, in the end, will help you coalesce them into a singular, well-coordinated, and organic motion.

“BRAVO, David, on your book, ‘The Breathing Book for Horn’! This is a fantastic book that horn players (all wind players) should read and use each and every day!” - Gail Williams, Professor of Horn (retired), Northwestern University