Today I thought I would go the opposite of last week. Last week I outlined a high range flexibility session using lots of lip. Today, low range and the fingers.
The Routine
Breathing - Flow studies and air patterns (use some song you like and rock out)
Caruso - 6 note drill. (I use the Flexus Book by Laurie Frink, I do no.1 and no.2)
Caruso - 6 note lower octave
Flexus - Flexibility One - 1 - 4 (down the octave from written, and as written)
Flexus - Flexibility Two - Flexando 1 (Use all the notes of the horn’s harmonic series, all F-horn side)
Flexus - Flexibility Four - 1 (as high as you can)
Brophy Technical Studies book - Low range nos.3 and 5.
Low range scales - various rhythms and articulations. Repeated on each note. Pick several scales and several patterns. Spend time getting in and out of that range.
Low range flutter scales - Quarter notes, slurred, with flutter tongue. From the top, and the bottom of the scale, 1 octave.
Spiders - Pick a couple (Flexus book has these) (The Dufrense Routine does as well, exercise no.3 The difference between these is that the Flexus approach is chromatic from a pivot as the Dufrense is scale based.)
Farkas Book - Low range (First half, and extend it all the way down to F123 (harm 2) repeat this 3 times with a short rest 30 - 45 seconds in between.
Kopprasch Pick one, down the octave.
That is it.
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