Great lesson today! It's fun to explore different topics of music in our chats. Keep on working on that major scale warm up into the pedal register. When you reach the low F, drop the jaw a little more and follow your ear to the destination. This exercise will get your mind, fingers, air and face engaged right away. Also [...]
Abi: My apologies for the crappy internet connection today, everything sounded good anyways! Continue to work on the lip slurs and feel free to break it up the same way we did today (two notes at a time). Try to refresh your major scales as well! Those have been good but you want to continue to work towards making them [...]
Abi: Everything is sounding good! For next week check out the first 8 bars of Power Ride & write out a two octave F# chromatic scale. Bonus: play the melody to "Hey Jude" in a new key. Matt: It was fun checking out some new concepts in lesson. I think doing some more ear training in the next couple lessons [...]
Everything was sounding good this lesson! You should be happy with all your improvement :) Work on those descending major scales. Its a nice mental work out to do them back wards, and going in to your low register will get the blood/ air flowing in your favour. In the pedal register (below F#) try to open that jaw up [...]
Abi: Nice lesson today! It was great to hear you play something a little different. I like that Octopath Traveler song a lot. If you could play the first 25 seconds of it that would be great. Make it your goal to make every note beautiful, support the air with your core & take full breaths ( Hoo- Too!!!). Keep [...]
Abi: Continue to work on your 5 note slurs. Alternate between slurring and tonguing to get the feel for it. The C G C E G slur sounded great this week! Keep the air moving forward; take full breaths and remember to relax. We had a good chat about learning different scales this week! Just a quick reminder of what [...]
Good lesson today! I'm glad you finally came with a question. Hopefully more to come. Keep up the work on the slurs; Even another 5 mins a day can go a long way with those exercises. Always try to build from the same starting point to as high as you can go. Try it from different starting points as well [...]
Good lesson today!! Keep working on those 5 notes slurs; these things take time... your patience will soon be rewarded! Keep the air moving and memorize the sensation of changing notes. Use the Eb Ab C slur grouping as your ground zero and move up from there. You should be able to get F Bb D - or higher, solid [...]
Abi: Continue to work on those 5 note slurs; Aim for having C-> high G comfortable. Take full breaths and crescendo up so you can use the air to your advantage. If you're having trouble with one interval in particular, change the starting note, or practice some of those rips I mentioned. That will activate your core, and the corners [...]
Breathe ! Breathe more !! These five note slurs are getting better & better every week. Keep up the focus on those and you'll see results in many other aspects of your playing. Practice them with different starting points/ fingerings to get comfortable everywhere, which will all help the actual goal of slurring from C->G->C->E->G. Remember to keep the air [...]