Bruce Kelley

Music

Current "gigs"

• Horn - I have played horn since I was in the 7th grade. I took a break from horn playing part way through college and picked it up again in 1993. In 2001, I started taking occasional lessons from Barney Blough in Seattle.
• Eastside Symphony - I play principal horn in this amateur community orchestra in Redmond, Washington.

Old "gigs"

• Northwest Mahler Festival - I was on the board of directors of this yearly event for Seattle area musicians for many years.
• Five Bells Brass Quintet - I played horn in this brass quintet from Orcas Island, WA.
• Turtle Bluff Chamber Orchestra- I played horn in this small orchestra in Chimacum, WA until it shut down in 2003.
• Pentaire Quintet - I played horn in this woodwind quintet composed of members of the Eastside Symphony.
• Classical Guitar - I took several years of lessons as a child and I pick it up once in a while - just long enough to realize how much it hurts my fingers.
  

Horn Music

• Horn Exercises, Part 1
• Low range builder exercises - all in new notation bass clef
• Add A Tone exercises - in all major and minor keys. Strive for smooth, even slurs!
• Diminished Arpeggios - 2 and 3 octaves
• Harmonic Fingering Chart - how "in tune" can you expect each fingering to be?
• Harmonic Series - the basis for pitch on any horn
• Brahms 2nd Symphony, 2nd Mvt, Horn 1 in F - Yes, your teacher will say it's cheating, but who really wants to transpose this major solo from Horn in H in front of an audience?