Today’s session is another mixed bag. It isn’t based around anyone book, it is “practice aid heavy” but that is alright. It is also going to be a pretty quick one, so lets go.
The Session
Breathing exercises (5 min)
Inhalation with a Triflo
4 reps with each ball
Peak flow meter 8 reps going for target
Long Tones (pick 4 pitches, do them in all octaves with hairpins)
Do these with a tuner or pitch visualizer for stability
Scales numbers are scale degrees
1-5-1-5-1-9-5-9-5-9-1-3-5-8-10-12-10-8-5-3-1 (in 16th notes, various articulations, pick several scales)
Major Pentatonic scales over 3 octaves
Whole tone scale from G over the entire range of the horn slurred and tongued
1 octave descending scales with flutter tongue, going over the break
Lip slurs (recorded and reviewed.)
Farkas style
Play the quarter note version that starts on middle C (or Harm 5 of whatever valve combo you are using) complete the exercise. Take a deep breath and do the 8th note version from the bottom (harm 2)
Etude
Kopprasch no.13 with repeats
As written and down the ocatve.
That is it, another quick and focused one, the next post will be some insight into why I don’t have a set routine. So until then, happy horning.