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
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
00:01:41
15 minutes
From memory, to be played tongued, with legato tonguing and staccato in the following keys:
- Bass clef: B, C, Db, D, Eb majors; B, C, C#, D, Eb minors (a twelfth)
All other keys, major and minor (two octaves) - Treble clef: Db, D, Eb, E, F majors; C#, D, Eb, E, F minors (a twelfth)
All other keys, major and minor (two octaves)
Scales: in the above keys (minors in both harmonic and melodic forms)
Chromatic Scales:
- Bass clef: starting on any note E–Bb (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on any note F#–C (two octaves)
Arpeggios: the common chords of the above keys for the ranges indicated
Dominant Sevenths:
- Bass clef: in the keys of B and Db (two octaves)
- Treble clef: in the keys of Db and Eb (two octaves)
Diminished Sevenths:
- Bass clef: starting on G and A (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on A and B (two octaves)
Exercises correspond to ABRSM Scales and Arpeggios page 9
00:03:08
30 minutes
Play along with these recordings of these etudes from Melodious Etudes for Trombone.
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