Nice lesson! I think soon you're going to start to see some big improvements (if you keep practicing the way you do). We talked about a lot of things so I'm just going to go over some of the points I made. Warm up: Do these! The one warm up I mentioned was slurring from G to C and then [...]
Hello! My apologies for not posting this earlier. Holiday busyness and a hint of forgetfulness are to blame there. My bad. Although, I trust both of you having been playing trumpet and working everything we've talked about! Abi: This year we worked a lot on major scales, range and reading music. You’ve done a great job improving on all of [...]
Thank you for your continued dedication and curiosity with music. Take a look through all your notes this holiday and figure out what exercises you like the best. Try to do one for slurring, tonguing, fingers, as well as playing some music every day. Some more specific homework to check out will be: every major arpeggio (and review the scales [...]
Abi: Try to include the lip bends and slurred intervals into your practice routine. As a reminder, slurred intervals you would start on G and expand on both sides, always returning to the middle note. Use your air & activate your core when slurring up to the higher pitches. Try to always make it a very clean movement from note [...]
Abi: Try to do those octave jumps everyday. Im hearing your notes begin faster, and your articulation is becoming more precise. Think spit ball in the higher register. I think you could get that C# out if you worked on it. Ab and Db major scales for next week. 60bpm, tongued and slurred. Propeller song looked pretty good overall. I'm [...]
Congrats on learning All Through The Night so fast! I'm glad you like it. I'll review what we talked about for All through... , I know you have notes but maybe this will help clarify some things. Good sound and articulation: Practice this always taking full breaths and focusing on your sound. That is what this song is all about. [...]
Abi: I hope you start to include the long tones and octave jumps into your practice routine. I'll explain them again quick. Start with a long tone on Low C, then jump an octave to high C. From each of those notes you expand in an outwards direction, alternating high and low ex low C, high C, low B, high [...]
Abi: Keep up those long tones. Doing them expanding to low F#, and the F# two octave higher will be great for your sound, endurance and stabilizing your embouchure. Then try the three octave tonguing thing we were doing! Think of the spit ball idea to see how high you can go, we will do this next lesson. Nice job [...]
Great lesson today. I hope you were able to absorb a little bit of what I said about diminished and augmented families :-) I think you would really benefit from doing those long tones on C. I think that is the C-cret to expanding your range! You can just hold the C, or start mf and crescendo to almost max [...]
Abi: Continue to warm up with those long tones, I'm glad you do those. Try them a little longer and with added dynamics as well! Remember to do the lip slurs as well. Those will be great for your range and control. Major scales: Using the Circle of Fifths and your ear is a great way to go through all [...]