BREATHING
5 minutes
Follow the link below to breathing exercise videos. Choose one appropriate to your level and practice with it. In your next session, choose something else that looks interesting. Eventually, you will build your own practice routine with your favorite practice videos.
♦ Focused Breathing Exercises
00:02:25
30 minutes
Play along with this recording of Air in both a slow and original tempo.
RANGE
10 minutes
Follow the link below to range exercise videos. Choose one appropriate to your level and practice with it. In your next session, choose something else that looks interesting. Eventually, you will build your own practice routine with your favorite practice videos.
♦ Focused Range Exercises
00:12:19
Work for quick slide movement and coordinated tongue. Practice slowly before you take it fast - and use your tuner to make sure you are getting to the right pitch.
- Ab Major, a 12th
- C Minor, a 12th
- F Major, 2 Octaves
- F# Major, 2 octaves
- G Major, 2 Octaves
- F Minor, 2 octaves
- G Minor, 2 octaves
- F Chromatic, 2 Octaves
- Dom 7th in the key of Bb, 2 Octaves
To be played by memory, tongued and legato tongued.
Exercises correspond to ABRSM Scales and Arpeggios numbers 14, 16, 18, 22, 30 or 31, 54 or 55, 64 or 65, 89, 116, 118, 120, 124, 131, 143, 148, 167
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