French Horn Practice Apps for Smarter Practice
Professional tools for scales, accuracy, transposition and sight reading — designed by a working horn player to support focused, effective daily practice.
Horn Player’s Toolkit helps students, teachers and advanced musicians practise smarter with structured game modes built specifically for the French horn.
Apps
Horn Player’s Toolkit
A selection of exercises and tools designed to improve accuracy, transposition and sight reading. And now with fun and customisable random scale picker to add challenge and fun to your scale practice.
Farkas 2.0
Based on the Accuracy Exercise from The Art of French Horn Playing by Philip Farkas, this is a fully customisable accuracy exercise designed to be challenging to beginners and professionals alike.
Designed for all brass and wind instruments.
Farkas Jr
For absolute beginners. Practice your fingerings and pitching as you expand your range.
About me
My name is Stephen and I am a professional horn player and app developer. I currently hold the positions of Associate Principal Horn of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Horn of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Before starting in Liverpool I enjoyed a busy freelance career based in London including appearances as Guest Principal Horn with many of the UK and Ireland’s top orchestras.
My apps have grown out of the way I was taught and how I practised as a young musician.
The games and exercises that shaped my early development showed me that improvement doesn’t have to be dry or mechanical. With my apps, I aim to capture that sense of engagement while providing clear, real-time feedback and the right level of challenge to help players improve efficiently and with confidence.
Photo credit: Gareth Jones
